Introducing the new 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plate Reader Advanced - the future of Food Safety Lab Automation. With automated plate enumeration and enhanced reporting capabilities, the Petrifilm Plate Reader Advanced counts colonies on Petrifilm Plates in 6 seconds or less.
Using breakthrough fixed artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the new Petrifilm Reader Advanced can enumerate up to 900 plates per hour. This technology ensures accurate colony counting every time and an increase in productivity. Created in a space-saving design, the new Petrifilm reader is simple to use and easy to clean.
Benefits
- Works with 10 different 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plates including Rapid Aerobic, Rapid Coliform, Rapid E. coli/Coliform, Rapid Yeast and Mold, Enterobacteriaceae and Staph Express Count Plates (Complete list below)
- Enumeration in 6 seconds or less
- Reads up to 900 plates per hour
- Reads 10 barcode symbologies
- Easy to clean and maintain
- Compact instrument
- Assign product specifications and create a 3M Petrifilm Plate worklist
- Accurate colony counting
- Store results and allow for trending and reporting
- Automated reports + data trending
- Remote access to the software via company intranet or VPN
Software
This proactive new plate reader uses advanced powerful software to create automated reports and data trending giving the user actionable insights. This software helps to create individual testing profiles for different food matrices. It also enables users to create one time/single-use reports, recurring schedule reports and real-time charts.
Enumerate - Plate Annotation enables users to add/remove colony markers, edit plate info e.g. sample ID and save comments with each result. Automatic Result Recording has options to read barcodes, copy excel and add to your worklist.
Results - Results can be searched using the search bar in the Plate Manager. Users can search historical results, filter results, customize columns and import results via MS Excel, CSV or TSV. The Plate Manager has result options to calculate totals, generate reports and export results.
Trends & Reports Generate recurring reports, view historical reports and export reports. Users can also create charts & graphs and add company logos to reports. Result Trends lets users customize their own trending dashboard. Users can create real-time trending charts. If new results are collected, these real-time charts are updated.
Additional features
- LED bar indicate reader status
- Enable plate annotation and colony reclassification
- Fixed artificial intelligence (AI) technology
- Reads 11 types of Petrifilm™ Plates
- Does not require a verification card
3M™ Petrifilm™ Plates
The 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plates gives you results up to twice as fast as traditional methods. Advantages of using the Petrifilm plates are no agar prep, increased technician efficiency, reliability, and consistency. These easy-to-use plates were created by the experts at 3M™ Food Safety. They are designed to help you make the call when time is of the essence. No matter what your testing process, the 3M™ Petrifilm™ can find the right solution for you.
3M Petrifilm Plate Reader Advanced works with 10 different Petrifilm™ Plates: