Automation manufacturers have been around since the 1970’s. The development in tech, which is A.I., the internet, robots, etc. have all upgraded the manufacturing process. Robots which are collaborating with the employees on the manufacturing line known as cobots have been moving around recently. Without just fully stealing jobs from everyday workers, these robots work with the employees to improve working conditions.

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Companies always search into how to upgrade efficiency for bettering the worth in the company as a whole. These teams turn to automation to be a solution which will take them to the next level and increase their productivity with testing. At AB Controls for years on end we have been growing our arsenal of solutions and ways to integrate the most up to date lab automation. You can contact us to speak about your problems and how we can come up with the answers.

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When you are a person making executive decisions, you will want to question your team, or even yourself before applying lab automation/ automated testing to your project. Pondering on that question will help your team decide on how to start automation with your project.

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For a lot of companies creating products with detailed and complicated electronic components, automated test equipment (ATE), then putting them to use can make a huge difference of both, product and support after a sale.

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More and more companies are moving to robotics automation to evolve their manufacturing processes, based on their reliability while reducing manpower needs.  However, properly being able to implement and integrate robotics into existing systems can be overwhelming.

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Automation technology is revolutionizing many marketplaces. It allows organizations to reallocate resources and empower their leading team members to achieve higher levels of productivity. For those just learning more on the area of laboratory automation systems, it’s important to gain an understanding on their role on the lab and their work in mitigating multiple challenges that lab teams face each workday. In this latest post, we’ll highlight four of the challenges resolved by laboratory automation solutions. (more…)

When I began this job a few months ago I found myself hearing the words pharmaceutical and biotech quite often. I myself am not a science person by any means, so these words didn’t mean too much to me.  I knew that they referred to companies that deal with drugs, but that was the extent of it, I really, barely knew anything more about them.  I decided today that I was going to find out what those companies are doing and the difference, if any, between the two.

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The pH is a quantitative unit of measurement that describes the acidity and alkalinity of a substance. The pH value states the relative quantity of hydrogen ions contained in a solution. The greater the concentration of hydrogen creates an acidic solution, and the lower the pH creates an alkaline solution. In practice, it is the hydrogen ion activity which is measured rather than the concentration.

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Cloud Computing

Across “health care, Laboratory Information management systems (LIMS), hospitals, pharmaceuticals, drug discovery research & development”, automated platforms and applications cloud computing (computing on demand via the Internet) has become inescapable.

Its initial appeal has often been the huge capacity of outside data storage through file-sharing services that now include Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon Web Services or Apple iCloud. But software as a service (SaaS) that no longer has to be locally installed is swiftly becoming an even more important part of cloud computing.

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Automation and security

Many medical device/hospitals/ pharmaceutical companies believe the cloud is less secure than traditional server-based systems. That’s not necessarily the case – but it all depends on the cloud services you choose. For best practice, cloud-based software needs to have appropriate security protocols and the exact APIs to facilitate integration and automation.

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