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Virtuoso Vial Identification System

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Is this how you label your samples?

Probably not…

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Or is this how you label your vial?

Hopefully so!

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How Important is Vial Labeling

 “We’ve done some pretty clever things in the lab to minimize sequencing errors, but this one still keeps me up at night.  I’ve asked everyone in the industry that I meet and all of our new hires if they have any ideas and so far no one has offered more than what we are currently doing.” 

- CEO of a large environmental lab in US

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The ideal labeling scenario

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Vial Identification Workflow – 30,000ft

Vial

Sample

Marked Vial

Cap/Closure

Experiment Type

Mark Vial

Close Vial

Storage Tray, in a position

Autosampler

Determine and Enter Instrument Sequence Data

Analysis

Add Sample

Temp storage

Load

Sample Set

# - Individual Identity

Marking Detail

DisposalLong Term

Storage

UnLoad

Reference Data

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Situational Analysis

• Vial labeling manual & error prone

• Vial labeling is “expensive”, from the rework perspective

• Vial labeling has “no good” solution yet, and existing solutions tend to be ad hoc

• Vial labeling is often ignored and is often abdicated to the instrument autosampler sequence

• Rather than value add, it’s necessary evil

• Vial labeling is temporary & fragile

• Vial labeling is not automated or considered as part workflow efficiency improvements

• Vial labeling detail is compromised by the methods used for marking

• Vial labeling tends to be user specific “coding” & not universal throughout a laboratory

• Vial labeling depends on human resources

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What vial labeling has become

• The manual nature of vial labeling, as it currently exists in most laboratories, is error prone, time-consuming and does not add value to the work flow

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Research tells us

• The average time it takes to manually label (handwritten or paper label) is 39 seconds

• The average wage for a laboratory analyst is $29/hr• A typical laboratory will label 80 vials per day• Over 92 hours a year labeling vial• Over $6,250 in labor spent vial labels• It’s a BIG issue

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The most prevalent way to label a vial

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Virtuoso Vial Identification System

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What is Virtuoso?

First of its kind vial identification system, that removes manual vial labeling errors , automates vial labeling, creates completely customizable vial identification, and dramatically increases sample throughput, up to 8X.

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Virtuoso – What does it do?

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Virtuoso Benefits

• Facilitates Labeling Requirements • Fully loaded with standard or fully user-defined templates

• Increases Productivity- Eliminate error-prone manual vial labeling• Label a vial in just 5 seconds

• Improve labeling efficiencies by downloading sample lists

• Simplify vial sample identification

• Produces High-Quality Labeling • Resists common laboratory solvents, blurring, and smudging

• Provides an Advanced Labeling and information System in One Device• Designed by experienced analytical scientists

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Virtuoso - No smudge, no smear, no question

Thermo Scientific Virtuoso Vial Identification System

• Create customizable vial identification directly on vial

• Increase vial labelling through-put up to 8 times• Improves confidence in data by removing labelling

errors

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Q & A