FloDesign’s CEO, Art Martin, is a recognized expert in laboratory automation with over 25 years of experience. Art was instrumental in the development of the Waters Tablet Processing System, and currently holds ownership to 3 patents.
The Waters Tablet Processing System (WTPS) was designed to meet the growing need for automated tablet analysis in pharmaceutical quality control. Working close with Merck Sharpe & Dohme, Art developed and patented a Tablet Extraction device that proved most effective in quickly dissolving and releasing the active ingredients out of products with complex matrices. Solving the problem of Tablet Extraction allowed for the full development of an automated workstation capable of validated sample preparation and subsequent injection into a Waters Liquid Chromatograph where the final analysis was directly uploaded to their data package. The release of the WTPS in 1990 was widely accepted, and quickly became the industry standard.
