Beckman Coulter Adopts Verification System

The Artel MVS (multichannel verification system), developed by Artel (Westbrook, Maine, USA), has been adopted by Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, CA, USA), leading manufacturer of testing instrumentation, in order to verify the accuracy and precision of its automated liquid handling systems used in pharmaceutical and clinical laboratories.

A future option to the company's Biomek customers, the MVS will provide documentation about system performance, aiding labs to meet compliance and regulatory requirements. The MVS will be part of the company's Field Service Operational Qualification Program.

Because Biomek customers quickly generate data used in critical assays and due to increasing regulatory pressure governing process controls, Beckman Coulter wanted a more convenient method to measure instrument performance. Upgrading its Field Service Operational Qualification Program technology with the MVS, a rapid and traceable system, allows Beckman Coulter to easily meet customer demands for documented validation.

Artel's MVS allows us to rapidly assess the performance of our instruments in the field and provide documented, traceable data, notes Lisa Knapp, technical services manager for Beckman Coulter. This is especially important for some of our customers operating in regulated environments who need third-party validation of instrumentation and processes.

The MVS is based on proprietary ratiometric photometry, which measures light absorption by two specially formulated dyes in order to verify volume, making it especially effective at low volumes. In addition, the MVS can perform calibration very quickly, and can be applied to Beckman Coulter's full portfolio of Biomek liquid handlers, ranging from one to 384 channels.

The MVS is becoming the tool of choice for laboratory liquid delivery quality assurance, noted Ms. Knapp. We equipped our service representatives with a standard performance measurement tool so they can communicate in the same language with Artel's customers using the MVS on the bench, and this will streamline service visits. Robust and unaffected by environmental conditions, the MVS is portable and user-friendly, facilitating its use by service representatives in the field as well as by end-users for interim checks.



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