Follow Webster, a Microbial QC Lab Technician, as he discovers the power of automated growth-based RMM technology.

1. DISCOVERING
THE POWER
of Automated
Growth-Based RMM

2. PART 1:
Realizing the Problem

3. Webster, a Microbial QC Lab
Technician, needs to perform
an environmental monitoring
test near his company’s
production line. He uses
the traditional colony
enumeration method
as he’s done for years.

4. He first collects samples from
the production line and prepares
samples for incubation.

5. Then he loads the samples into
the first incubator at 22° C.

6. Once the specified time has passed,
Webster transfers the samples into
the second incubator at 32° C.

7. At the end of the assay, he removes the samples
from the second incubator and spends hours
manually counting and recording colonies.

8. PART 2:
Discovering a Solution

9. Frustrated with the time and energy he spends
on colony enumeration, Webster researches
rapid microbiological methods (RMM).

10. He discovers automated, growth-based RMM,
a method that saves time by automating the
tasks he already performs.

11. Citing the method’s efficiency and economic benefits,
Webster convinces his company’s senior management
to invest in automated, growth-based RMM equipment.

12. PART 3:
Using an Automated,
Growth-Based RMM

13. Webster once again carries out an environmental
monitoring test, this time with the aid
of automated, growth-based RMM.
He collects and prepares samples using the same
procedures he used with the compendial method.

14. He then loads the samples
into the automated technology
which manages the incubation
and enumeration.

15. While Webster works on higher
value activities, the automated
technology handles the transfer
of samples for serial incubation.

16. Final results are
automatically
recorded and
uploaded to
the LIMS for
Webster and
other stakeholders
to view.

17. PART 4:
Realizing the Savings & Benefits

18. With fewer repetitive
tasks to perform,
Webster and his
colleagues can spend
more time on analysis
and intervention.

19. Miscounts, misplaced sam-ples
Miscounts, misplaced samples
and data entry errors are all but
eliminated with an automatic
and data entry errors
are all but eliminated with
an automatic system, ulti-mately
creating fewer in-vestigations.
system, ultimately creating
fewer investigations.

20. LINES
TESTING COSTS
Miscounts, misplaced sam-ples
and data entry errors
Increased testing efficiency allows
are all but eliminated with
an automatic system, ulti-mately
creating fewer in-vestigations.
for improved lab response to
new production lines.

21. Automated, Growth-based RMM can have a
profound effect on company-wide operations.
Miscounts, misplaced sam-ples
and data entry errors
are all but eliminated with
an automatic system, ulti-mately
Results in about half the time
Fewer out-of-specification investigations
Easier long-term trend analysis
Non-destructive test
Reduced product losses
creating fewer in-vestigations.

22. To learn more about the benefits
of automated rapid detection and
enumeration...
Download the free guide today