Medical device company prevents damage to high-value clinical trial samples using the Elemental Machines platform.
Medical device company prevents damage to high-value clinical trial samples using the Elemental Machines platform.
1 PagesPROBLEM Soon after installation of the Elemental Machines Platform, the Operations Director noticed an unusual temperature profile for a -20C lab freezer, as collected by the Element-T sensor. The freezer stored thermally sensitive, irreplaceable, biological samples that were used in global Phase 3 clinical trials for the company’s coagulator. The freezer temperature displayed a cyclical spike about every 12 hours. During these spikes, the temperature inside the freezer rose about 15-20C above the setpoint, often triggering a temperature threshold alert. Within a couple of days, the team realized that the cyclical temperature spikes were not related to people actually opening the freezers and concluded the behavior was attributed to the freezer performance. The spikes occurred eve
