My company recently went ahead with the purchase of a Verso Q75 system (an automated freezer for those not familiar with them). If you have any experience with these systems I’d be interested to hear your thoughts/experiences. I am going to be in charge of testing the unit and eventually getting it talking to our LIMS system, any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated!
I don’t have direct experience, but the compound management group I work with just finished installing 2 Q20 systems and integrating them with our instance of Mosaic. If you’re interested, I can probably make the connection so you can talk to them. From what I have heard, they seem to be working pretty well and I don’t think the integration with Mosaic was that difficult.
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Hello, if I could hear more about their experience I would really appreciate it! We are going to be using the system for compound management as well. Thank you!
are you guys happy with your Qseries storage from hamilton?
Hello, sorry I don’t come through the forum very often these days!
Yes we are pleased with the Q Series, it’s been a huge quality of life improvement for the lab. Getting it correctly calibrated took a bit of work, I’d say plan for at least 1-2 month of intensive testing and 3 more months of tweaking things here and there. After about 6-9mo we reached a steady state with it. There are still errors here and there but my team has learned how to handle them for the most part. It’s pretty rare that we have to call in an engineer these days.
For a small to medium lab it’s a wonderful piece of equipment. Our gets used every day, mostly for orders on the small side (5-500 tubes). Prior to getting it my team was picking tubes by hand, and there’s no way we would be able to handle our current order volume if we didn’t have it.
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