Blue®Washer + Agilent Biotek BioStack™
Integration

New software and hardware package that pairs your Blue®Washer with an Agilent BioTek BioStack™ plate stacker for seamlessly automated workflows.

 

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40 second sequence

The stacker presents a plate, the washer runs the method, the plate is returned to the output flow. The cycle repeats for every plate in the stack.

Pick
5 s
Process
± 30 s
Return
5 s
0s
5s
35s
40s

1  BioStack™ presents plates from the input stack to the washer.

2  Blue®Washer runs the selected wash workflow.

3  Processed plates move back to the stacker output flow.

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Demonstration video.
The BioStack gripper setting a 96-well plate onto the Blue®Washer carrier

Total BioStack™ functionality inside Blue®Flow — no separate stacker GUI

Seamlessly operate the Agilent BioStack™ for Blue®Flow graphical user interface.

Blue®Flow BioStack configuration screen: COM port connection, homing and re-align controls, claw teaching steps, and movement commands including From Instrument, From Output To Input, From Input To Instrument and Restack
No plate counting

Set a specific number of plates, or set it to auto and let the program process every plate in the stack.

Chained do–while blocks

Several blocks in one program: wash, restack, wash with a second protocol, restack.

Pause without aborting

The run button doubles as a pause control — click during execution to pause, click again to resume.

Features

All-in-One software
  • ·Total functionality inside BlueFlow software
  • ·Stacker commands and wash steps in one method
Simple set-up
  • ·Alignment rack bolts to the BlueWasher
    housing
  • ·Both instruments connect to the same control PC over USB
Compatibility
  • ·Compatible with BioStack™ models 1, 2, 3 and 4
  • ·Works with BlueWasher and
    BlueWasher XL
  • ·Works with all plate formats

“Simply amazing!”

— Scientist, Pharmaceutical Company
San Diego USA

When asked how the newly-developed stacker integration has been working for her.

Specifications

Carrier
Machined aluminum 6082-T6 (EN AW-6082 / 3.2315), black anodized Type II, Ra ≤ 1.6 µm, Z-coupling
Rack
BlueWasher-BioStack™ Rack v2.0 — stacker alignment hardware, stacker platform, T-form fixing part. (PETG; stainless steel)
Compatibility
Blue®Washer, Blue®Washer XL · all plate formats
Stacker models
Agilent BioTek BioStack™ 1, 2, 3 and 4
Connection
USB A-B, both instruments to control PC
Software and operation
BioStack™ module for Blue®Flow; stacker commands written into the same method as the wash steps, with automatic plate detection and chained do–while blocks

NOTICE: BioStack™ and related products are property of Agilent and are used solely to identify the systems with which our integration is designed to be compatible. Such references do not imply any affiliation with, sponsorship by, endorsement by, or certification by the respective manufacturers.

 

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