The unique CARIS™ system is designed for front-end automation of most types of tests used in autoimmune serology including Immunofluorescence assays (IFA), ELISA* and FIDIS™ multiplex immunoassays.

The highly flexible instrument is available as two models with a robotic arm incorporating either 2 or 4 pipetting tips. Each pipette operates independently and features ceramic micro-geared pumps, which are very accurate, maintenance free and extremely quiet. Precision across the pipetting range of 1 ul to 1 ml, is excellent and tips are interchangeable between washable or disposable types.

With up to 4 pipetting tips the system has a very high capacity and can handle up to 40 IFA slides in 10 different test combinations simultaneously. CARIS™ has a capacity to handle 96 samples at any one time using primary sample tubes and identification through a manual or optional automated bar code reader.

The large stainless steel deck holds up to 6 sample predilution plates that can be set for each sample and each test. The pipette wash station is used for both internal and external probe wash and simultaneously washes all 4 tips whilst the reagent rack has 19 positions for controls and reagents. The system comes with 8 IFA slide racks containing up to 5 slides per rack of any type.

The CARIS™ ATX software is very user-friendly making test programming and selection easy. The software gives an open choice of titration ratios for each sample, real time tracking of each step of the test and a graphical representation of the deck featuring colour coded slides.

CARIS™has been designed to be multifunctional and in addition to IFA slides it can also be used to prepare FIDIS™ multiplex immunoassay tests, including an automated vacuum filtration washer* to provide automated front-end automation of these tests.