Automation Portal
Automate with your trusted LC partner of choice
Whether your goal is to maximize the efficiency of your lab or improve instrument utilization, Waters Automation Portal helps you get the most from the Waters liquid chromatography (LC) systems that you know and trust.
With Waters simple-to-use Automation Portal, you can easily automate your ACQUITY and Arc UPLC, UHPLC, and HPLC Systems and maximize your lab’s efficiency – minimizing tedious manual procedures in your LC workflows, improving lab throughput, reducing analyst errors, and freeing up time to focus on your science.
Specifications
Microtiter Plate Acceptance Criteria: Accepts standard microtiter plates meeting the ANSI/SLAS 4-2004 R2012 specification.
Plate Access: The Automation Portal’s landing pad allows unimpeded access to both short sides and both long sides, allowing plates to be gripped in either orientation. On the short side of the plate, the Automation Portal’s landing pad allows clear access to the bottom edge of the sample plate, along the tray edge dimension. On the long side, the landing pad allows a gripper access to the top 10 mm of a plate.
Cycle Time: Defined as one drawer extraction and one drawer insertion; less than 1 minute.
Temperature: Maintains sample manager environmental conditions.
Communications: Serial communications to Sample Manager and PC.
Physical Specifications:
- Width: 25.4 cm (10.0 in.)
- Height: 49.5 cm (19.5 in.)
- Depth: 60.9 cm (24.0 in.)
- Weight: 18.1 kg (39.9 lbs.)
Overview
- Streamline your LC workflow by enabling physical sample transfer into ACQUITY and Arc sample managers using robotic arms
- Simplify installation onto ACQUITY and Arc sample managers for ACQUITY and Arc Premier UPLC/UHPLC Systems, ACQUITY UPLC H-Class and I-Class PLUS Series, and ACQUITY Arc and Arc HPLC Systems
- Leverage third-party integrators for installs and data integration using Empower Toolkit, MassLynx Software, and waters_connect APIs
- Establish processes using automation scheduling software designed for use with the Automation Portal
- Optimize lab space by maintaining a small footprint
- Achieve quality and consistency by reducing analyst errors
Recommended Use: For maximizing lab efficiency and improving utilization of ACQUITY and Arc UPLC, UHPLC, and HPLC Systems.
Easily integrate Waters Analytical LCs into automated workflows
Easily automate your ACQUITY or Arc UPLC, UHPLC, and HPLC System with the simple-to-use Automation Portal. The Automation Portal is readily configurable with a wide range of Waters HPLC, HPLC/UHPLC , and UHPLC/UPLC Systems. With its small footprint, the Automation Portal even saves lab space for plate loading and transfer.
Choose your own integration partner
With the Automation Portal, you conveniently work with your preferred integrator for all of your integrator-assisted and customer-controlled automation workflows. The Automation Portal leverages third-party integrators for installs and data integration using Empower Toolkit, MassLynx Software, and waters_connect Software Solutions APIs.
