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How to Choose the Best Robotic Liquid Handling System
We live in an age where automation and robotics play a critical role in almost all facets of our lives.
What Is The Benefit Of Lab Automation?
Lab automation is a new and emerging technology that has the potential to help transform the way we live and work.
14 Questions to Ask Potential System Integration Companies (Revised September 2020)
Systems integration work is critical in ensuring all devices function in harmony toward the company’s common goal.
Trends in Today’s Manufacturing Automation
Automated manufacturing has become the latest very popular trend in the technology industry. This growth in popularity is leading to these automation companies to reinstate more and more workers everyday. There is an industrial revolution at the foot of our door right...
Evolution of Automated Manufacturers and “Cobots”
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...
How to Approach Issues With Automation in Lab Testing
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...
Things to Ask When Beginning a Lab Automation Project
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...
Key Factors When Deciding Which ATE Company to Hire
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. Integrating circuits and the systems used along...
Selecting an Automated Systems Integrator
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....
Challenges Resolved by Using Laboratory Automation Solutions
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...
The 4 Benefits of Working with Automated Test Equipment Companies
Automated test equipment companies are now helping improve the validity of testing results for a broad range of organizations throughout the world. One of the issues in this marketplace is that few business owners have a complete understanding of the role automated...
AB Controls Now One of the Leading Contract Manufacturing Companies for Precision and Performance
December 04, 2019 - Irvine, CA-based automation specialist, AB Controls is now leading the market as one of the top local contract manufacturing companies. The firm is adept at turning complex concepts into tangible reality, harnessing mechanical, systems and software...
The Difference Between Biotech and Pharma Companies
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...
Reasons Why You Need To Automate Your pH Measurement Process
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...
Things you should know before moving your automated platforms to the cloud
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...
Laboratory Automation, Cloud Computing and Security
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,...
A Brief Introduction to Choosing Contract Manufacturing Companies
Contract manufacturing companies perform an essential function in today’s globalized economy. They enable companies to focus on producing their core product while experts help to manufacture equipment to automate and simplify systems and process. And so, it’s...
Advantage of an Automated Titration System
Ensuring universal accuracy throughout manufacturing and production is essential to your company. However, whenever the human element is involved, it can often result in variances of a final product. Using visual and manual inspections in production may result in...
System Integration Case Study: LIMS Implementation and Integration
What is a LIMS System? A laboratory information management system (LIMS), is a software-based solution with features that support a modern laboratory's operations. Key features include sample management, stability studies, workflow management, sample tracking, and...
AB Controls System Integration Approach
System Integration: System integration is defined in engineering as the process of bringing together the component sub-systems into one system and ensuring that the subsystems function together as a whole, and in information technology as the process of linking...
Another look at the Pipetting Robot (Revised)
In order to complete pharmaceutical, medical, industrial or similar testing efficiently, recently companies are implementing more automated solutions to their most common testing challenges. The pipetting robot is one of the best solutions offered to help drive...
The 5 Benefits of Working with Automated Test Equipment Companies (revised Nov 2018)
Automated test equipment companies are now helping improve the validity of testing results for a broad range of organizations throughout the globe. But one of the challenges within the marketplace is that few business leaders have a comprehensive understanding of the...
Advantages of Automating Laboratory Testing – A Supervisory Perspective
Laboratory teams are continually looking for ways to better improve their productivity and maximize the long-term value of their testing work. Many companies are now choosing laboratory automation solutions to boost their work and maximize the efficiency of their...
Laboratory Automation and Testing
A lot of the operations in a laboratory are geared towards performing tests. Some examples are particle counting, titration (moisture determination) or PH tests. Chemical testing is a time-consuming affair. Steps leading to the test, the test itself and post...
How to Measure Return on Investment in Automated Test Equipment
Investopedia defines ROI as a performance measure for evaluating efficiency of an investment. ROI = (Gain from Investment – Cost of Investment)/Cost of Investment. However, I must say that this might be an oversimplification. When it comes to automated test...
What Makes AB Controls One of the Leading System Integration Companies
Enabling complex systems to work in unison as part of a manufacturing process is a task few firms have the capacity to handle alone. And yet with so many new technologies available, many operating independently, company leaders are often faced with the challenge of...
Three Tips for Handling Unsupported Test Equipment with Automated Services
One of the most common challenges throughout the industrial marketplace is the inability to effectively test products before bringing them to market. Obsolete or otherwise unsupported test equipment can stall the progress of a product development and limit the ROI for...
13 Considerations to Make When Choosing Automated Test Equipment
Automated test equipment can help reduce testing costs and ensure that lab teams are focused on their important roles within the facility. They can help drive productivity and maximize efficiency within the working process. But before investing in automated test...
5 Benefits of Laboratory Automation Solutions
Laboratory teams are continually looking for ways to better improve their productivity and maximize the long-term value of their testing work. Many companies are now choosing laboratory automation solutions to boost their work and maximize the efficiency of their...
Discover More on the Pipetting Robot
In order to complete testing work more efficiently, companies are now implementing automated solutions to their most common testing challenges. The pipetting robot is one of the latest solutions offered to help drive productivity within testing procedures. Within this...
What is Laboratory Automation Systems?
In recent years, you may have heard the term "laboratory automation solutions" referenced rather frequently. You may have already implemented some solutions without even knowing about it. While the entire development of laboratory automation focuses around improving...
Four Questions to Ask Potential System Integration Companies
Systems integration work is critical in ensuring all devices work in unison toward the company’s common goal. Manufacturing firms often struggle in pairing systems together. That’s why many are now turning to specialist system integration companies for guidance. To...
Part 3: Human Error, Automation, and Repeatability
This is the final part of our 3 part series: human error, automation, and repeatability. For the sake of this post, all efforts will be focused on a clinical chemistry laboratory. To begin, it is important to delve into failure rates in human systems. According to...
Part 2: How Automation Reduces Risk Of Injuries
After covering how automation can increase efficiency and decrease costs, we will now be looking at how automation can decrease injuries in factories, laboratories, and hospitals. According to a 1997 study titled "Cost of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses", there...
Part 1: How Automation Increases Efficiency and Decreases Costs
Being a company that specializes in Automation, AB Controls, Inc. realizes that there are many benefits to using automation in your laboratory, manufacturing plant, hospital, and etc. So over the next week and a half we are going to focus on three key topics...
Pipette Delivery Robot (Trx)
At AB Controls, Inc. we are always trying to be on top of our game in terms of integrated technologies and robotics. This blog is not about throwing shameless product promotions, but while I am working on locating break through stories in life sciences, aerospace,...
New Fully Automated Karl Fischer Titration System
AB Controls, Inc., the premier provider of laboratory automation solutions announces that the new Tix system will offer a fully automated robotic system for conducting Karl Fischer moisture assay. The Tix system is validated for use in lyophilization cycle...
