Labman have designed and installed a number of loading systems to supply samples directly to Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Aquakem analyser (Thermo Scientific Aquakem 600). The loaders automatically present bottled samples to the Aquakem sampling needle by placing them into an aliquot position where the Aquakem’s ‘KUSTI Arm’ attachment will aspirate the sample and dispense it directly into the analyser.

Sample bottles are loaded offline into removable trolleys and wheeled into the system. This allows almost non-stop operation of the system with minimal set-up time. The trolleys can hold one or many individual batches created by a LIMS system. Test information is passed to the Aquakem unit via the systems ‘ASTM’ or ‘KoneOnline’ uplink and allows each sample to be processed with any combination of tests.