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BioArc™ Flex -80°C Automated Sample Storage System

BioArc Flex is an automated sample management and biological storage system that provides flexible, modular solutions with the security and reliability needed to precisely fit the biobank customer’s needs.

Stores wide range of sample containers
Can accommodate up to 14,400,000 tubes
Dynamic storage shelving
Highly customizable

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Overview

The BioArc Flex Automated Sample Storage System is an exceptional automated solution for managing and storing samples at -80°C, ensuring data integrity and optimal storage conditions. Designed for regulated environments, biopharmaceutical and research sectors, as well as biobanks, BioArc Flex facilitates efficient sample inventory management while minimizing temperature fluctuations. With its flexible and modular design, the BioArc offers a perfect balance of security, reliability, and customization to meet your unique requirements.

In addition, the BioArc Flex benefits from sharing architecture and automation modules with our proven SampleArc™ system, enabling continuous improvements across a broad install base. The common core of these systems delivers exceptional reliability, making the BioArc product family ideal for biobanking, clinical applications, product warehousing, and more. Count on BioArc to deliver exceptional performance, providing you with maximum reliability, ease of sample migration, and an effortless user experience.

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Integrations

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Key Features

Properties
- System sizing: Scalable to meet a wide range of capacity needs and can hold up to 14,400,000 tubes (depending on type)
- Labware flexibility and adaptability: handles the widest range of labware available in a single store, including cryovials, tubes, plates, and cryoboxes
- Functional modules: allows for customization to meet your needs today and can be modified to meet your future needs
- High-density storage: reformatting labware for proprietary high density storage racks can more than double storage capacity compared to SBS racks
- Multi-pitch shelving: dynamic storage shelving maximizes storage density; a sample imaging module captures barcodes, labware type, and heights to assure an optimal storage location
- Easy to use: no special expertise required to operate the system
- Various models available including options for space efficiency
Sample Stability & Integrity
The BioArc system maintains sample integrity by keeping innocent (unpicked) samples at storage temperature throughout the picking process. Other quality assurance features include:
- Sample security: redundant refrigeration circuits and backup LN2 capability are standard, and help maintain consistent sample temperature in case of catastrophic power outage
- -80°C picking modules: can pick cohorts of tubes and maintain non-targeted, "innocent" samples at -80°C until requested by user
- Temperature homogeneity: by placing the evaporators above all samples, the temperature remains constant throughout the storage environment
- Minimized thermal disruption: a passive tile wall insulates the storage compartment and allows for rapid sample access; less than 1% of the wall surface area is opened when samples are retrieved, ensuring innocent samples are not exposed to unnecessary temperature cycling
Store Controller Software
Intuitive, easy-to-use, fully featured Strata™ Store Controller Software is included for effective sample management and inventory control. It provides:
- Sample security: Conducts lifetime inventory and environmental tracking while compiling sample chain of custody and audit trail reports.
- High performance and reliability: Provides full order control, including drag-and-drop order prioritization. Optimizes throughput with more efficient batch workflows and order decomposition.
- Easy to use: Intuitive, information-rich display with modern graphics permits operations with zero special training. Customizable screens permit application-specific workflow presentations.
- Seamless IT integration: Flexible deployment options include active directory integration and encrypted system access passwords. LIMS options include web services API, database, and file-based integration. Accessibility is highly configurable with definable user roles.
- Configurable: Creation of users and roles, gadget and access customization, system level customization.
- Compliance: Strata supports 21 CFR Part 11 compliance.
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Specifications

The BioArc Flex product range comes in a series of heights and lengths depending on capacity needs and room constraints. The storage capacities for various sizes are listed below.

	BioArc Flex -80°C Automated Sample Storage System
Dimensions (L x D x H)	5.8 x 3.1 x 3m 19’ x 10’2” x 9’10”
Maximum dimensions (L x D x H)	18.1 x 3.1 x 5m 59’5” x 10’2” x 16’5”
0.9ml tube capacity range	790,000 to 9,600,000 tubes
1.9ml tube capacity range	280,000 to 3,380,000 tubes
3.8ml tube capacity range	165,000 to 2,490,000 tubes
7.6ml tube capacity range	100,000 to 1,245,000 tubes
2" cryobox capacity range	2,750 to 33,000 cryoboxes