RTS Life Science, a worldwide supplier of automated sample management and pharmaceutical testing systems today announces the availability of a poster highlighting how digital video recording can monitor processes and help resolve problems encountered in a lab, freeing analysts for more valuable tasks.
With every laboratory under pressure to increase efficiency and take on a greater workload of experimentation and testing, scientists have turned to automated processing systems to reduce the mundane and often time consuming tasks, whilst they concentrate on the design and interpretation of the studies being performed. This all sounds fine, except that real world automation systems and robotics need a level of care and supervision to keep them running well, and many experiments still need to be qualitatively viewed and analyzed during processing.
To enable labs to increase their productivity, whilst keeping headcount the same or lower, there needs to be an enabling technology which allows scientists to multitask their time amongst multiple critical daily duties. This technology is video monitoring and recording. Advances in CCD cameras and processing technologies have made the implementation of video recording affordable to most operations. The RTS LabEye system incorporates up to 16 digital cameras with a digital video recording system that is PC based. The LabEye software has been written to facilitate the type of qualitative analysis tasks that are prevalent in all labs.
This poster presents a case study detailing the use of digital video recording with solid dose tablet dissolution. This study looks at the application and benefits achieved by using a six camera system to monitor and record an extended release dosage during typical USP testing. The poster also outlines the broader use of the technology in auditing and debugging automation systems used in testing laboratories.
To download a copy of the poster, click here.
