Xelox

Particle Size Determination Next Generation Impactor (NGI)

Unique design,modular robotics and sophisticated handling techniques. These were once the impressive characteristics that described robotics in the car industry. Astech now bring this level of quality automation to the pharmaceutical testing arena.

Xelox™ is our ground breaking series of products for Particle Size Determination by NGI. The key benefits from Xelox™automation are:

• Vastly increased productivity
• Significant cost reduction
• Increased amount of test data
• Reduced variability in results
• Significant reduction in Health & Safety issues such as WR-ULD

1 Series

Xelox™1 systems are designed as analyst workstations and require the analyst to manually load a single device into the system. The device is automatically waste fired until the desired dose is reached and presented to a standard NGI for automated dose collection. Once dosed, the analyst removes the NGI cup tray, induction port and optional pre-separator for manual analysis. Alternatively the analyst can upgrade the system to the Xelox™ 3 which automatically processes the NGI, induction port and optional pre-separator for manual analysis.

3 Series

Our Xelox™3 systems are also designed as workstations and require the analyst to manually load a single device into the system. The device is automatically waste fired ready for firing into the NGI. After successful fire to the NGI the contents are recovered via our automated processing technology ready for analysis by test instruments such as HPLC.