In-Vitro Diagnostics Design and Manufacture
Microbiology Applications
- Automated Microbiology System
Automated Microbiology System
For pharmaceutical companies, tight quality controls can often delay time-to-market. One company is seeking to solve this challenge with an instrument that allows earlier detection and enumeration of potential bacterial contamination, providing more rigorous quality control as well as rapid release of contamination-free materials to production. The instrument automates the microbial culture process and uses image analysis for microbial detection.
Once the company developed the image processing algorithms used to detect microbial presence, it contracted KMC Systems to develop the instrument’s platform. The project required advanced electrical, mechanical and software engineering as well as the development of a robotic transport system to interface the agar cassette with the imager and on-board CO2 incubator. It also included the development of a sophisticated optical-based imaging system within the instrument and a proprietary agar cassette .
KMC Systems is currently in the process of transitioning the product into manufacturing.
