Enplas is an innovative manufacturing partner for global providers and emerging startups across the life science industry. With extensive product development experience and R&D activities, Enplas’s depository of design transition expertise helps customers overcome their DFM bottlenecks and enhance their device’s performance.
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Automate On-Chip DNA Library Prep Without Bulky Instruments:
Large instruments with complex tubing are often required to automate DNA library preparation for NGS and other genetic analyses. This makes the system complex, cumbersome, and expensive. The RMVP system is versatile and can be customized freely to meet your unique application needs. In this example, the Enplas RMVP system achieved the automation of the end prep process of a DNA library prep, which included PCR, size selection, and beads isolation by magnets, all on one chip, within a handheld-sized device.
Increase POCT Cartridge Yield with the Efficient Handling and Production of Lyophilized Reagents
Improve the efficiency of POCT cartridges and the speed and scalability of your mass production processes — lyophilize reagents in a plastic meshed pod! Our plastic meshed pod is engineered to alleviate the errors associated with bead lyophilization, such as inconsistent mass, rolling, and poor robotic handling. In addition, the pod provides a stable surface for robotic arms to hold without the risk of damaging the lyophilized reagent. It even automatically filters air bubbles during dispensation, which reduces complexity for the user.
On-Chip DNA Purification and Amplification with Minimum Equipment:
Integrating conventional DNA/RNA analysis methods into a microfluidic system can lead to exceedingly large, costly, and power-hungry systems. Instead, combine various DNA/RNA analysis methods on a single chip. Using simple microfluidic handling features, you can accurately drive and move fluids while minimizing device footprint, power consumption, complexity, cross-contamination, and equipment cost. For example, a closed on-chip valve and pump system drives and mixes reagents in a thermal chamber and uses a Peltier unit to apply thermal cycles. DNA purification is easily achieved with on-chip magnets isolating magnetic beads.
Prevent Tubes From Slipping Off Connectors:
Convexed TPE Tube Holder
For elastomer parts to secure tubes in various applications such as diagnostics or drug discovery, it is important to consider both a) initial fit of the tube inside the elastomer part and b) possible compromise of the elastomer over time. Customers come to us with numerous shapes of these tube holders, and we suggest a convexed pressure point for secure tube holding and for optimized mass productions.
Multiplex Metering on Microfluidic Chips Without Complex Tubing:
Special Chip Features with an On-Chip Pump and Valve
Automating multiplex fluid metering can be achieved without complicated routing of pumps, syringes, and tubes. This microfluidic chip design concept enables automated metering of various liquid volumes without the complex tubing: A simple combination of an on-chip valve and pump system, measuring chambers on chip, an optical liquid surface detection system, and microfluidic channel surface treatments.