Sample Sealing
Slow and usually a bottleneck in any automated system.
- Plates - only automated version is adhesive/heat sealing and unsealing equipment or de-lidding stations. Both types only do one plate at a time and assume either a person, or a robotic arm to bring the plate to the station. Plate well cap systems are incompatible with automation
- Tubes - capping stations for robot arm integrated systems uncap or cap only one tube at a time and are slow.
Always best to have sample sealing or unsealing done off-line by people. People are at least as fast and many times faster than the automated tools available.