The revolutionizing potential of lab-on-a-chip and BioMEMS systems, based on Microfluidics technology, is widely recognized in life sciences and in industrial process control.
Typical benefits of Lab-on-a-chip and BioMEMS (microfluidics) are the reduced costs and consumption of reagents, faster mixing and heating, better control of processes, and the potentially high degree of automation.
As a result, innovative R&D equipment based on microfluidics is introduced rapidly.
In pharmacy and genomics, for example, experiments can be performed by thousands in parallel, resulting in more efficient discovery of new drugs and the accelerated unraveling of the human genome.
In fine chemistry, the optimization of process parameters and production of small quantities is performed in the very same micro reactor system, bypassing the expensive up scaling stages.
Other emerging applications are in instrumentation for food quality and safety detection and in medicine.
iX-factory offers a broad range of lab-on-a-chip and BioMEMS based on the newest glass and silicon microfluidics technologies.
