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Procleix Panther System Featuring ART

Optimize variable workflow needs through superior customization with easy, scalable options that help transform the way your lab works as your needs evolve.

Procleix Panther System Featuring ART

The Procleix Panther System provides advanced laboratory automation in a compact footprint while maintaining high throughput and efficiency. It builds on the proven, reliable performance of Procleix technology, incorporating enhanced software and hardware to optimize NAT (nucleic acid testing) screening workflows. Optional features, including full track connectivity, remote monitoring, and scalable automation solutions, allow laboratories, blood banks, and diagnostic centers to adapt to evolving workflow requirements. These flexible upgrades help improve operational efficiency, productivity, and future-ready lab performance.

Main benefits

Superior customization

The Procleix Panther system enables flexible, customizable laboratory workflows tailored to your operational priorities. Laboratories can increase throughput and achieve faster turnaround times, even during peak demand periods. Its efficient, space-saving design helps optimize floor space while supporting variable workloads and scalable testing needs.

Innovative optional components

We also offer modular, upgradeable components that can be added at any time to extend functionality. These include features such as remote dashboard monitoring, data sharing capabilities, and expansion modules to support growing testing volumes.

Laboratories can adapt to current and future operational needs without compromising performance, quality, or system reliability. This flexibility enables scalable automation and long-term workflow optimization.

Streamlined workflow

The Procleix Panther System enables fully automated, continuous testing with ongoing sample processing and real-time result release. Laboratories can prioritize urgent samples with true STAT processing, enabling faster turnaround for critical cases.

Features such as 24-hour calibration and elimination of end-of-run controls reduce manual intervention and downtime, improving overall laboratory efficiency, productivity, and workflow consistency.

Next-Generation Laboratory Automation: Discover Procleix Panther System with ART

Discover how the Procleix Panther System featuring ART transforms modern laboratory workflows with advanced automation, continuous testing, and real-time result delivery. This video highlights how laboratories, blood banks, and diagnostic centers can improve efficiency, reduce hands-on time, and manage peak workloads with scalable, high-throughput performance. Learn how intelligent automation, remote monitoring, and 24-hour calibration enable consistent, reliable NAT screening. With sustainability-focused design and reduced resource consumption, Panther ART supports both operational excellence and environmental responsibility—helping your lab stay ahead in a rapidly evolving diagnostic landscape.

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Empowering Safer Blood Decisions: Real Stories from the Lab

Hear from leading blood banks and diagnostic laboratories as they share how the Procleix Panther System featuring ART is transforming transfusion medicine. This testimonial video highlights real-world improvements in automation, turnaround time, reliability, and workflow efficiency. Discover how labs enhance performance, reduce manual effort, and ensure accurate results with scalable, high-throughput NAT screening solutions from Grifols.

Product specifications

Product Detail
Specifications
  • Instrument: 122 x 81.5 x 175 cm
  • Instrument with MTU Expansion Module: 149 x 81.5 x 175 cm
Additional features
  • UPS: 21.4 x 41 x 32.5 cm
  • Direct-to-drain pump: 24 x 22 x 23 cm
Specifications
  • Base: 183 x 172.9 x 198 cm
  • With MTU Expansion Module: 214 x 172.9 x 198 cm
Additional features
  • No need for rear clearance, instrument can be installed directly against a wall
Specifications
  • Base: 363 kg
  • UPS: 34.5 kg
Additional features
  • With MTU Expansion Module: 423 kg
Specifications
  • Up to 120 sample tubes (8 racks) + on-demand access*
Additional features
Specifications
  • Up to 2000 tests (4 sets) + on-demand access*
Additional features
Specifications
  • Up to 2000 tests (2 sets) + on-demand access*
Additional features
Specifications
  • MTU: Up to 125 tests + on-demand access*
  • Tips: Up to 576
Additional features
  • MTU (with MTU Expansion Module): Up to 600 tests + on-demand access*
Specifications
  • Base model: Up to 750 tests + on-demand access*
Additional features
  • With optional direct-to-drain: No limit**
Specifications
  • Up to 750 tests + on-demand access*
Additional features
Specifications
  • 3.5 hr to first 5 results; 5 results every 5 min thereafter
Additional features
  • 275 test results in 8 hr; up to 500 test results in 12 hr
Specifications
  • Code 39, Code 93, Code 128 (ISBT 128), Interleaved 2 of 5, Codabar, Jan 13, UPC
Additional features
Specifications
  • Up to 24 hours
Additional features
Specifications
  • Up to 60 (also non-continuous) hours
Additional features
Specifications
  • Altitude: Equal to or less than 2000 m above sea level
  • Operational temperature: 15–30°C
Additional features
  • Operational humidity: 20–85% relative (non-condensing) at 30°C or below
Specifications
  • Electrical input: 100–240; VAC: (± 10%), 50/60 Hz: single phase
  • Current input: 110 V - 20 amp circuit (dedicated if used with optional UPS) specified to operate at a minimum of 15 amps (dedicated); 220 V - 10 amp circuit (dedicated) specified to operate at 7.5 amps (dedicated)
  • Current draw: Draw 1400 W peak, average 700 W (13 amps @ 100 VAC, 5.4 amps @ 240 VAC)
Additional features
Specifications
  • Heat dissipation: 550 W (1878 BTU/hr) during steady state
  • Drain output: Waste fluids drain to removable containers, or directly to centralized laboratory drainage system**
  • Noise output: <60 dB(A)
Additional features
Specifications
  • Microsoft Windows 10
Additional features
Specifications
  • Up to 120 MTU capacity (up to 600 tests)
Additional features
Specifications
  • Data sharing among up to 16 connected instruments
  • Exchange partially utilized reagent kits among connected instruments
  • Single user login and setup across networked instruments
  • Duplicate-sample prevention across networked instruments
Additional features
Specifications
  • Provides real-time status of networked Procleix Panther systems featuring ART that can be displayed via TV screen monitor, tablet, or desktop PC***
Additional features

* Allows operator access during system operation; certain restrictions apply
** For instruments equipped with optional direct-to-drain pump. Please refer to your local environmental regulations and guidelines
*** Up to 16 Procleix Panther systems featuring ART can be connected; 6 can be displayed at a time

* Allows operator access during system operation; certain restrictions apply
** For instruments equipped with optional direct-to-drain pump. Please refer to your local environmental regulations and guidelines
*** Up to 16 Procleix Panther systems featuring ART can be connected; 6 can be displayed at a time
Product Detail Specifications Additional features

Physical dimensions (WxDxH)
  • Instrument: 122 x 81.5 x 175 cm
  • Instrument with MTU Expansion Module: 149 x 81.5 x 175 cm
  • UPS: 21.4 x 41 x 32.5 cm
  • Direct-to-drain pump: 24 x 22 x 23 cm

Minimum clearance requirements
  • Base: 183 x 172.9 x 198 cm
  • With MTU Expansion Module: 214 x 172.9 x 198 cm
  • No need for rear clearance, instrument can be installed directly against a wall

Weight
  • Base: 363 kg
  • UPS: 34.5 kg
  • With MTU Expansion Module: 423 kg

Sample capacity
  • Up to 120 sample tubes (8 racks) + on-demand access*

Reagent capacity
  • Up to 2000 tests (4 sets) + on-demand access*

Fluid capacity
  • Up to 2000 tests (2 sets) + on-demand access*

Consumables capacity
  • MTU: Up to 125 tests + on-demand access*
  • Tips: Up to 576
  • MTU (with MTU Expansion Module): Up to 600 tests + on-demand access*

Liquid waste capacity
  • Base model: Up to 750 tests + on-demand access*
  • With optional direct-to-drain: No limit**

Solid waste capacity
  • Up to 750 tests + on-demand access*

Sample throughput
  • 3.5 hr to first 5 results; 5 results every 5 min thereafter
  • 275 test results in 8 hr; up to 500 test results in 12 hr

Sample barcode types
  • Code 39, Code 93, Code 128 (ISBT 128), Interleaved 2 of 5, Codabar, Jan 13, UPC

System calibration
  • Up to 24 hours

On-board reagent stability
  • Up to 60 (also non-continuous) hours

Environmental requirements
  • Altitude: Equal to or less than 2000 m above sea level
  • Operational temperature: 15–30°C
  • Operational humidity: 20–85% relative (non-condensing) at 30°C or below

Electrical requirements
  • Electrical input: 100–240; VAC: (± 10%), 50/60 Hz: single phase
  • Current input: 110 V - 20 amp circuit (dedicated if used with optional UPS) specified to operate at a minimum of 15 amps (dedicated); 220 V - 10 amp circuit (dedicated) specified to operate at 7.5 amps (dedicated)
  • Current draw: Draw 1400 W peak, average 700 W (13 amps @ 100 VAC, 5.4 amps @ 240 VAC)

Environmental output
  • Heat dissipation: 550 W (1878 BTU/hr) during steady state
  • Drain output: Waste fluids drain to removable containers, or directly to centralized laboratory drainage system**
  • Noise output: <60 dB(A)

Operating system
  • Microsoft Windows 10

MTU Expansion Module (optional)
  • Up to 120 MTU capacity (up to 600 tests)

Data sharing (optional)
  • Data sharing among up to 16 connected instruments
  • Exchange partially utilized reagent kits among connected instruments
  • Single user login and setup across networked instruments
  • Duplicate-sample prevention across networked instruments

Dashboard (optional)
  • Provides real-time status of networked Procleix Panther systems featuring ART that can be displayed via TV screen monitor, tablet, or desktop PC***