cobas c 503 Analyzer

The cobas c 503 analyzer is an optimal solution for laboratories, delivering high performance, simple operation, and superior reliability, helping staff focus on higher-value tasks.

Product Description

The cobas c 503 analyzer is a high-performance clinical chemistry module designed for integration into the cobas® pro solution, suitable for medium to large-sized laboratories. It is engineered to provide excellent performance and simplify daily operations.

Key Features and Capabilities:

Exceptional Capacity and Efficiency:
- Provides a throughput of up to 1,000 photometric tests per hour.
- Achieves 500 HbA1c samples per hour.
- Designed for 24-hour uninterrupted operation.
- Offers fast and predictable turnaround times, with STAT (urgent) results in just 9 minutes and routine results in 18 minutes.
Advanced Reagent Management:
- Equipped with 60 reagent positions.
- Uses cobas c pack green reagents.
- Reagents are ready-to-use, requiring no preparation, mixing, pre-opening, or waiting—just take them out of the refrigerator and load them directly onto the analyzer.
- Provides industry-leading on-board stability, averaging 137 days and up to 6 months for 57% of tests.
- Supports continuous reagent loading during operation, with the ability to load 5 reagent packs at once.
- Reagent identification via RFID.
Groundbreaking Calibration Technology:
- Integrates cobas® AutoCal, a revolutionary automated calibration concept.
- This feature reduces calibration workload by 56%, saving up to 105 hours annually by automatically calibrating new reagent lots without manual intervention. This ensures long-term calibration stability and lot calibration, eliminating the need for test calibration when changing biochemistry lots.
Ensured Sample and Process Integrity:
- Integrates ultrasonic mixing (cobas® SonicWash) for non-contact sample and reagent mixing, eliminating the risk of cross-contamination.
- SonicWash also helps clean the sample probe, ensuring sample integrity and automatically dissolving clots.
- Uses a Halogen photometer lamp.
- Automated maintenance reduces the daily manual maintenance burden to zero, only requiring bi-weekly and monthly maintenance.
- Provides a predictive loading list that calculates average daily consumption over 9 weeks, advising on necessary reagent packs to optimize uptime and minimize interruptions.
Optimized Workflow & Ease of Use:
- The system boasts an uptime reliability of over 99%.
- Offers standardized results and operation by using the same reagents, detection technology, reference ranges, and common user interface with other cobas® systems, simplifying training and allowing for flexible staff allocation.