Flow Robotics interactive brochure - Flipbook - Page 12
Unilabs increased
productivity by 40
At Unilabs in Copenhagen, blood samples from
sclerosis patients from all over the world are being
screened for antibodies against a virus, and the results are being used for diagnostic analysis.
“Every day we screen a minimum of 470 samples from
patients. For this we use the pipetting robot flowbot
ONE of which we have five in our laboratory. In a specific pattern, the robots dilute the samples and dispenses them onto microtiterplates. The process for one
assessment takes a little less than 30 minutes and we
are completing 10-12 assessments every day. It’s an improvement of 40 % more samples screened,” tells Dana
Svraka, Medical Laboratory Technologist at Unilabs, Copenhagen.
12
Being an international company, Unilabs performs diagnostic services in large scale, with more than 120,000
cases of pathology diagnostic services, 3.8 million imaging examinations and 195 million analyses made annually, in more than 250 laboratories spread globally.
Unilabs provides diagnostic services to different patient
groups.
For Unilabs in Copenhagen, the implementation
of five flowbot ONE robots in their workflow resulted in
significantly shorter turnaround time for incoming patient samples. Dana Svraka is enthusiastic about this efficiency improvement: “Now, the sclerosis patients get
answers 30 % faster than before. The time from we start
the tests until we can conclude on results has been significantly shortened and it is really satisfying to me. We
could not have done this without the flowbots.”
Prior to automating their screening process, they had
some concerns regarding training and the general use
of pipetting robots. “We were a little concerned about
losing the manual know-how of pipetting. But the
bottom line is that our lab team still fully controls the
pipetting, only now we avoid aching hands and shoulders due to locked work positions and repetitive procedures. This is really important to us.”
It took little effort for the Laboratory Technologist at
Unilabs to become familiar with flowbot ONE. The
Danish company Flow Robotics has designed flowbot
ONE to be intuitive for new users. “We are really happy with how user-friendly flowbot ONE is. You quickly
get started in the morning – a push on the button and
it is ready to start running the predefined programs,”
describes Dana Svraka, “It’s great that you don’t have
to learn a lot of new procedures, it’s simple to use
since you can setup programs with a few clicks, and everyone in our lab understood how to right away.”
“We are happy we decided to automate our dilution
series with flowbot ONE. We have increased our productivity, reduced injuries and, on a bigger picture,
we give the answers of the samples quicker, so that
medical staff can provide the right care for the patients sooner,” concludes Dana Svraka, and returns to
the lab, where one robot already finished a run and is
ready for the next batch of samples.
