Digitizes and automates your pharmaceutical microbiology QC
Ultra precise images
The (patent-pending) optical system captures ultra-precise images and uses vision to analyze your data. This unique optical acquisition system allows to acquire high resolution image of 100% of the plate surface, including the wall (meniscus) of the Petri dish, allowing the detection of any colony on the Petri Dishes, ensuring zero false negatives.
Optimise the workflow
EMMA is revolutionizing the world of environmental monitoring. EMMA utilises a unique, patent-pending optical system to generate images of petri dishes that cover 100% of the surface whilst keeping the lid on. In combination with powerful artificial intelligence software enabling automated detection of positive and negative Petri dishes, CFU counting and a software platform that is CFR21 part 11 compliant, EMMA is ready to take your data integrity to a higher level and optimise your workflow.
The optical system
MicroTechniX developed an entirely new optical system for EMMA ensuring the walls of a Petri dish can be imaged with the lid on. A high-resolution camera in combination with an application specific lens allows to image 100% of the Petri dish surface, including the walls, whilst keeping the lid on. This approach allows to generate high quality images for downstream analysis by AI or an operator.
Calibration and consistency
The calibration parameters you employ are saved in a digital file that’s valid for your system and any other Microtechnix imaging device, anywhere in the world. Just send the digital file to another lab for complete consistency and a simple, smooth assay validation. Microtechnix calibration methodology of imaging systems ensures reproducibility and repeatability of the result between systems. Consistency is then over time, between labs and operators. Combined with analysis powered by artificial intelligence, EMMA ensures a reproducible and consistent reading of Petri dishes avoiding false negatives in Environmental Monitoring.
Specifications
| Sample capacity | Up to 200 Petri dishes |
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| Throughput | Up to 2 Petri dishes per minute |
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| Lens | Microtechnix patent – pending lens |
| Compliance | 21 CFR Part 11; ”ALCOA+” principle for Data Integrity |
| Plate size | 50 and 90 mm |
| Operating system | Windows 10 |
| Footprint | 50 x 50 x 42 cm |
| Software | EMdi software suite |
Why buy?
EMMA RL is a fully integrated and automated system: including camera, barcode reader, computer & robot:
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- Image acquisition of 100% of the surface with the lid on the Petri dish to avoid contamination
- Compatible with Petri Dishes from every supplier: Ø 55mm – Ø 90mm, both locking & standard lid.
- Compatible with all types of media (TSA, brown, red,…)
- Integrated 2D barcode reader to automatically identify the Petri dish in the scanner
- Digital Data integrity to ensure error-proof sample identification and audit trail (21 CFR part 11 compliant)
- Reporting tools and possibility to connect to LIMS (Novatek, MODA-EM, Sherpa Pharma,…)
- Ideal run size: imaging and analysis of up to 200 Petri dishes per run
- AI-model upgrades as powerful option to further automate your analysis
