Life science applications that necessitate nanoliter resolution dispensing or pulseless flow often encounter significant losses that can be mitigated through innovative technology. The advanced design of the FDD Direct Drive eliminates redundancies and resolves challenges across various industries that require precise fluid management.
In this article, the capability of this cutting-edge technology to enhance sub-microliter fluid management is explored.
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Significant Cost Savings Potential
Assay solutions can be extremely costly, often costing thousands of dollars per liter. In addition to the expense of assay solutions, delivering sub-microliter volumes in the life sciences, health sciences or technology sectors may involve multiple pumps, various parts, diverse software, and ongoing maintenance, all of which can substantially impact the bottom line.
The FDD Direct Drive eliminates mechanical backlash by reducing moving parts, delivering exceptional precision and accuracy throughout the device's lifecycle.
Enhanced precision preserves assay solutions that might otherwise be compromised by workaround techniques involving "excess" reservoirs managed via software.
With fewer moving parts and decreased maintenance needs, life sciences and other industries can realize millions in cost savings.
Elimination of Mechanical Backlash with the FDD Direct Drive
The FDD Direct Drive features a patent-pending design that effectively eliminates mechanical backlash. Direction changes do not result in a backlash that disrupts data collection, ensuring particles are not inadvertently recirculated multiple times in front of detection equipment such as lasers.
This patent-pending approach has achieved up to 98% stability metrics, including exceptionally precise fluid distribution. The FDD Direct Drive can achieve a resolution as fine as a single microliter, with the potential for even tighter thresholds. FDD has also demonstrated promising capabilities at the nanoliter level.
With the efficient reduction of mechanical backlash, the necessity for software designed to compensate for mechanical limitations is eliminated. As a result, life science partners can upgrade their technology without the constraints of associated software.
Significant Applications Across Diverse Industries
One notable application that the FDD Direct Drive can more effectively replace is time pressure dosing. Unlike traditional methods, the FDD Direct Drive does not require a pressurized miniature reservoir with complex, costly valves or the associated maintenance. This leads to substantial savings on equipment costs and enables businesses to enhance operational capabilities.
As healthcare has increasingly transitioned to decentralized models over the past three years, the applications of the FDD Direct Drive can significantly support this social shift.
Previously, point-of-care solutions were concentrated in medical facilities; however, FDD Direct Drive technology facilitates viable point-of-need solutions in patient residences and other remote locations.
This advancement empowers industries within the life sciences to serve a larger patient population more efficiently, enhancing patient care. The FDD Direct Drive reduces costs through optimized design and expands growth potential at the forefront.
The FDD Direct Drive allows for precision medical solutions without the need for expensive syringe pumps and their associated replacement components. FMI's patent-pending FDD Direct Drive technology offers nanoliter resolution dispensing solutions suitable for cytometry applications, in vitro diagnostics, research requiring precise particle, cell, or biomarker detection, and even technology sector companies needing sub-microliter fluid distribution.
FDD Delivers Greater Value at Reduced Costs by Addressing Common Challenges
The FDD Direct Drive nanoliter resolution pump effectively resolves issues that other pumps cannot. It does so with greater efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and reliability, directly and indirectly conserving resources.
Acknowledgments
Produced from material originally authored by Nicolas Mercier from Fluid Metering.
About Fluid Metering, Inc.
Fluid Metering, Inc. (FMI) is a worldwide leader in life science pumps and dispensers, having pioneered the first valve-less piston pump over 66 years ago. With specialized expertise in fluidics and applications, Fluid Metering, Inc. supports instrument developers in tackling complex fluidic challenges.
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