Syrris has upgraded the touchscreen firmware for its popular Atlas HD jacketed reactor systems to offer many of the advanced automation features previously only available using the system’s PC-based control software.

These enhanced automation options – such as pH-controlled and temperature-dependent dosing – add to the system’s existing functionality to offer even greater flexibility in protocol design.

The firmware upgrade expands the system’s touchscreen functionality, allowing users to review reaction protocols at a glance, monitor reactions with real-time data and graphing, and change reaction conditions on-the-fly. Experiment files are easily saved and shared between systems, improving batch-to-batch and site-to-site reproducibility. Advanced safety features – such as alarms and automatic shutdown – provide true walk-away operation.

Stephan Heffernan, Technical Application Specialist at Syrris, commented: “The Atlas HD is popular with R&D and process development chemists around the world, and these latest developments are a direct result of their feedback – reflecting the different ways the system is used across a wide range of sectors. Our PC control software is incredibly powerful, but users in many industries want the convenience of being able to program their reactions directly on the system. This new generation of on-board control is about ensuring that the firmware is as flexible as the hardware, making Atlas HD a powerful, user-friendly option for batch chemistry research.”

This firmware upgrade is free to all existing customers.

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About Syrris Limited

Syrris develops laboratory automation products for research and development chemists, and is renowned for its batch chemistry reactors and world-leading flow chemistry systems. It offers advanced lab-scale reactor systems – including the Atlas batch reactor, the fully automated Atlas HD system and the manually operated Orb jacketed reactor platform – as well as the Asia flow chemistry systems. The company’s latest innovations include the Orb Pilot large-scale batch reactor and the Titan continuous flow chemical processing systems.

In recognition of its technological achievements, Syrris received the eastern region’s UKTI Best Established Exporter award, as well as the award for the Most Outstanding Export Achievement at the Global Opportunity Conference on International Trade. In 2012, its Asia Flow Chemistry system was the recipient of a prestigious R&D award.

Established in 2001, Syrris is a brand of Blacktrace Holdings Ltd, a world leader in Productizing Science®. The company is based in Royston, near Cambridge, UK, where it employs 125 staff – including 40 chemists and engineers – with offices in the US, Japan, India and Brazil, as well as more than 45 distributors worldwide.

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