- Robust
- Reliable
- Accurate
- Dependable
Sirius Automation Group is proud to offer a complete line of benchtop automation solutions and services tailored to maximize your work efficiency and optimize your data consistency/accuracy. When a task is repetitive and predictable, then it’s a robot’s job, so why waste a person’s time doing it?
Our Open Architecture (Software & Modular Hardware) is flexible and Compliant to Regulations. Empower your ability to Develop/Maintain ‘Applications’ with Multi-Application Capability.
MicroTasker®
Compact and Economical
This fast and compact (2′ x 2′) Laboratory Robot is perfect for everyday tasks such as Analytical Weighing (4 or 5 place), Sample ID (1D or 2D barcodes), Sorting, Dilutions, Vortexing, Internal Standard Addition, Standard Prep, Un-Capping & Re-Capping, Transfers & Aliquoting. It has Sample Capacity for 8 microplate racks or custom equivalent, accommodating your choice of disposables and labware. It is easy to use with LIMS compatible data management.
MiniTasker®
Best Configurable Platform
Process everyday tasks such as Analytical Weighing (4 or 5 place), Sample ID (1D or 2D barcodes), Sorting, Dilutions, Vortex Mixing, Internal Standard Addition, Standard Prep, Un-Capping & Re-Capping, Transfers & Aliquoting. Large Sample Capacity (max 20 microplate racks or custom equivalent), choice of disposables and labware, yet benchtop compact (3’x2′) footprint and easy to use interface (21CFR11 compliance options) with LIMS compatible data management.
MultiTasker®
Effective Tailored Solutions
Because it MUST be done YOUR way ‘Not just another Liquid Handler’ Sirius Automation replicates your exact Laboratory Methods utilizing standard Labware & Operations. Properly implemented Automation provides substantially better data and safer, happier Staff.
LAB DEVICES
FlashScan2D®
With lightning fast camera-based imaging technology, the high-speed FlashScan2D® rack barcode scanner opens the barcode data for editing or agnostic integration to your LIMS software. This powerful small footprint scanner seamlessly connects with robotic platforms for high-throughput automation.
Operates Down to -20 C. Durable yet flexible, the FlashScan2D® is perfect for biobanking with low temperature functionality, HTS, or everyday research applications.
MiniRax® Lab Racks
Nobody wants to constantly rack and re-rack vials between instruments, ovens, evaporators, and robotics. These hard wearing & hard working MiniRax® are the perfect solution. We’ll work with your quantities and labware types to ensure everything is color keyed for easy, error free, implementation. These are machined to ensure a maximum of utility with a minimum weight, and automation friendly spacing and chamfering for pick and place requirements. Please enquire for more details.
Roboshield® Enclosures
Sturdy Benchtop Enclosures for your Laboratory Robots and other Lab Equipment
Our benchtop RoboShield® Enclosures remain one of our most popular accessories. Standard sizes fit most Sirius Automation and ‘Liquid Handler’ style robotics, and alternate sizes are offered for Centrifugal, Rotary & Multi Channel Evaporators. A distinct ‘plus’ with the safety conscious laboratory. Please enquire for more details.
● Standard & Custom Sizes
● Sturdy Lexan & Aluminum Construction
● 2 or 3 Door Versions
● With or Without Lock-Out Provisions
● Vents to ‘Elephant Trunk’ Style Handler Connections
ABM® Balance Modules
Automated Balance Modules
We have been a leader in robotic weighing since we began. Our current Automated Balance Module incorporates all we have learned to ensure premium performance. Easily installed on your DIY system, please ask for detailed drawings and specifications. Your labware sample will help us choose the exact model. We look forward to partnering with you!
● Designed around industry standard Mettler 204/205 Series Weighing Cell
● Milligram or sub milligram versions
● Integral Draft Shield with pneumatic controls
● Buffered balance door with anti-vibration mechanism for fastest possible stabilization
● Flat 1.3″ diameter balance nest, or we off to machine customs for your labware
Accessories and Consumables
Everything you need for the Care & Feeding of your Robotic Systems
Obviously change happens. Gripper Fingers wear, Cannulas (notoriously) can be bent, and unless you happen to have a magic wand, straightening either Gripper Fingers or Cannulas is usually thankless and fruitless. Syringe seals wear, slowly but inexorably. Antistatic devices lose effectiveness with time. If you can keep spare parts on hand, please do, it is a practice which reduces red faces and angst. If you don’t then we will always do our level best to get what you need as fast as possible. We’re here to help. It’s what we do.
APPLICATIONS
Sirius Automation Group is proud to offer a complete line of benchtop automation solutions and services tailored to maximize your work efficiency and optimize your data consistency/accuracy. When a task is repetitive and predictable, then it’s a robot’s job, so why waste a person’s time doing it?
Our Open Architecture (Software & Modular Hardware) is flexible and Compliant to Regulations. Empower your ability to Develop/Maintain ‘Applications’ with Multi-Application Capability.
BioPharma/Discovery
As a business segment it’s as targeted as you can make it, but it is always, always a numbers game. Whether you need to recombine fractions as they elute from the Prep LS/SFC and convert them into Liquid Store/Solid Store repository candidates, or you have powder libraries that have to be converted into deep well microplates or minitubes, or there are natural products that have to be extracted and concentrated w/o cross contamination, we bring the creative enabling technologies and the years of experience to ensure the most effective assistance. We’re here to help. It’s what we do.
Tech Briefs are available. Please ask.
BioPharma/Potency
Sample ID. Weigh. Mix. Dilute to concentration. Assay. Repeat. Report. Confirm each step. Yes, we get it. We have a library of different and adaptable technologies to ensure your manual methods translate rationally to automation, no matter how unusual they might be. Additionally our SiriusSlate® Software is intrinsically 21CFR11 compliance capable, and each Robotic System is offered with Training & IQ/OQ/PQ assistance. By people who know. We’re here to help. It’s what we do.
Tech Briefs are available. Please ask.
Environmental
Sirius Automation enjoys years of leadership experience in the successful automation of SS/TSS/TDS potable water type methodologies, organic/inorganic, Metro Regional, Water recycling or Industrial catchment areas we’ve seen it all. Air Quality Filters, Organic concentrations by SPC….yes we understand. It’s necessary, but all those steps are monotonous, boring and error prone. Don’t waste headcount on a robot’s job.
Tech Briefs are available. Please ask.
Microbiology
Consumer Product/Pharma Swab microbiological testing are the areas where sample throughput is enormous but automation is considered impractical and the ‘automate or populate’ choice reverts instinctively to adding temporary headcount. Which impacts the budget in a big way very fast. We cannot say we have ALL the answers…but we have most. If you’re interested in the improvement of both your testing and streamlining your workforce…we’re here to help. It’s what we do.
Tech Briefs are available. Please ask.
Contact us now and we will help build a helpful solution for you.
Chemical/Energy
Whether you are considering Laboratory Robotics as a means to ensure fast, unmanned answers for in-plant sampling and assays OR you have a program of research into reaction optimization and catalyst improvement, Sirius Automation understands your needs and speaks your language. Unattended performance and reliability. Flammable/Explosion Resistant environments. Don’t waste headcount on a robot’s job.
Tech Briefs are available. Please ask.
Contact us now and we will help build a helpful solution for you.
Tobacco and Smoke Related
Those Smoking Machine Filters are going to have to be weighed and extracted in exactly the same way each time to ensure the absence of Operator Induced Variance. Laboratory Automation is the best solution for addressing error reduction and data improvement. Your studies are much too important to be reliant on unsecured methodologies. If the job is worth doing, then it’s worth doing right. With built-in record keeping. Use a Robot.
Tech Briefs are available. Please ask.
Contact us now and we will help build a helpful solution for you.
Video Example of GraviTrac® Weighing of Smoking Machine Filter Holders and E-Cigarettes.
Solids & Powder Handling
Solids/Powder handling has been the single challenge of laboratory automation. One size/type/approach most assuredly does NOT fit all. Or even ‘most’, sadly. Everything has to be ‘tailored to the task’. Fortunately, the tailoring approach is where Sirius Automation provides both leadership & value and has done so since our inception, regardless you need be sampling & redistribution, dosing to target weights, mixing multiple materials or classical compounding.
Doesn’t matter – there are ways to address your requirements with speed & precision, and to ensure walkaway reliability at the same time. We’re here to help. It’s what we do.
Tech Briefs are available. Please ask.
Contact us now and we will help build a helpful solution for you.
Food & Beverage
One of those areas where out openness to ‘custom’ applications is usually well received. You may need to monitor pH and viscosity of semisoft cheese samples, and automatically clean the probes between samplings. The cookie dough batter has to be tested for elasticity, the potato chips for color, Karl Fischer monitoring of chocolate slurries, atline acidity of freeze dried coffee powders and benzoate preservative profiles of ‘health’ drinks.
Yes, we know. Bottom line is if the job is worth doing, then it’s worth doing right. With built-in recordkeeping. Use a robot.
Tech Briefs are available. Please ask.
Contact us now and we will help build a helpful solution for you.
Sample Preparation
Yes, we know. Bottom line is if the job is worth doing, then it’s worth doing right. With built-in recordkeeping. Use a robot.
Tech Briefs are available. Please ask.
Contact us now and we will help build a helpful solution for you.
Compound Management
Yes, we know. Bottom line is if the job is worth doing, then it’s worth doing right. With built-in recordkeeping. Use a robot.
Tech Briefs are available. Please ask.
Contact us now and we will help build a helpful solution for you.
Purification
Yes, we know. Bottom line is if the job is worth doing, then it’s worth doing right. With built-in recordkeeping. Use a robot.
Tech Briefs are available. Please ask.
Contact us now and we will help build a helpful solution for you.