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Case studies

Real laboratory and production challenges, the systems designed around them, and the results reported by customers.

Large pharmaceutical company

AutoLAB-HPLC- A fast-response purification lab supporting medicinal chemistry inside a large pharmaceutical company

A fast-response purification lab supporting medicinal chemistry The purification lab was struggling to process material quickly enough, staff was overwhelmed, and upper management wanted the lab to do more with less.
5× more samples
Medicinal chemistry

AutoPREP-SD1- A Fast-response purification lab supporting medicinal chemistry inside a large pharmaceutical company

A fast-response, mid-scale preparative HPLC lab The lab was struggling to process material quickly enough using two mid-scale preparative HPLC systems, each with three 200 mL/min SD1 pumps.
8× more material
Medicinal chemistry

AutoLAB-CCC- A fast-response purification lab supporting medicinal chemistry inside a large pharmaceutical company

Making countercurrent chromatography familiar to HPLC staff The lab was struggling to process material quickly enough using CounterCurrent Chromatography, and HPLC-centric staff were reluctant to use CCC.
6× more material
Production quality control

DALP-Sugar- A QC lab supporting production of a food additives exhibiting optical activity and no chromophore inside a large manufacturing company

Faster, more accurate QC for optically active food additives The QC lab was struggling to process samples quickly and accurately using refractive-index detection while production was increasing.
4× more samples
Pharmaceutical manufacturing

DALP-SMB- A large pharmaceutical manufacturing company utilizing simulated moving bed (SMB) chromatography systems to purify enantiomers in large production batches

Real-time enantiomeric purity for production batches The SMB lab was slowed by extended method optimization and hour-long delays while extracted samples were analyzed by HPLC.
10× productivity
API manufacturing

Decon-SMB- A large pharmaceutical company manufacturing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API)

Isolating trace API impurities with spectral deconvolution The company had difficulty isolating and purifying trace API impurities needed for regulatory identification and characterization.
10× throughput

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