Fluidics

Our fluidics team designs pumps, valves, dispense, and flow-path systems for liquid handling, microfluidics, and assay automation, across nanoliter to milliliter volumes. We work alongside our consumable, optics, and temperature-control teams so the fluid path is designed against the cartridge, the chemistry, and the assay it supports.

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Our Approach

Fluidics is where chemistry meets mechanics. We design pump, valve, dispense, mix, and flow-path systems for liquid handling, microfluidics, and assay automation. Across the volumes, viscosities, and chemistries your protocol actually uses, not the idealized ones in a datasheet.

The work is rarely about the fluid in isolation. It’s about the cartridge it flows through, the consumable it interacts with, the temperature it ramps through, and the assay it has to leave undisturbed. We design the fluid path as part of the rest of the instrument, not bolted on at the end.

Why Invetech

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fluidic systems shipped (nL to mL volumes)

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years of microfluidic cartridge experience

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chemistries characterized for compatibility

We don’t design fluidics in isolation. Our fluidics team sits next to the consumable, optics, and temperature-control teams, so the cartridge, the chemistry, the optical window, and the thermal ramp are designed against each other, not in sequence. That’s how a fluid path makes it from a benchtop prototype to a million-unit shipping consumable without a redesign in the middle.

Areas of Expertise

Pump & Valve Design

Selection, custom design, and integration of syringe, peristaltic, diaphragm, and rotary valve systems, characterized for the chemistries you actually run.

Microfluidics

Channel architecture, flow control, and fabrication strategy for cartridge-based microfluidic devices, from prototyping through volume manufacture.

Dispensing & Aspiration

Precision liquid handling: dispense accuracy, carryover, and consumable interaction, across nanoliter to milliliter ranges.

Mixing & Flow Path Design

Active and passive mixing, flow uniformity, and bubble management in complex multi-port flow paths.

Materials & Compatibility

Material selection for chemical compatibility, biocompatibility, sterilization tolerance, and long-term shelf life.

Client Outcomes

Product Strategy

Explore strategic possibilities, define a purposeful vision and a path to realization

Worfklow Transformation
Co-creation Workshops
Product & Feature Roadmapping

We partnered with Hologic to reimagine cervical cancer diagnosis user experience with an Al assisted digital cytology workflow

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Research & Human Factors

Uncover unmet user needs and assess usability within healthcare environments

Discovery Research
Usability Evaluations
Human Factors Engineering

Global molecular diagnostics client

We helped a health-tech business to iteratively design and test usability of a Point of Care device for use in multiple US healthcare settings.

Concept Visualizations

Visualize ideas to inspire and align your stakeholders

Digital Design
Industrial Design
Virtual Reality Experiences

Design Challenge

We imagined the future vision of a 2030 sepsis diagnosis laboratory

Product Design & Implementation

Design and deliver physical and digital offerings to your customers

Interaction Design
UI/UX (User Experience)
Styling

We worked together with Leica Biosystems to desian, develop and realize the physical interactions and styling of the BOND-PRIME

Related Capabilities

Applications Labs

We standardized documentation and shared processes to support a more seamless transfer into manufacturing reducing overhead

Device Master Record Management

We standardized documentation and shared processes to support a more seamless transfer into manufacturing reducing overhead

Continuous Improvement & Lean Manufacturing

Our Business System (Invetech Business Excellence - IBX) is part of Invetech’s DNA, shaping how we

Value Analysis & Value Engineering

Improve manufacturability, strengthen performance and reduce total cost without compromising quality.

Design for Manufacture & Assembly

Manufacturing engineers are involved from day one so designs are optimized for yield, cost, quality, and

Regulatory Ready

Invetech delivers regulatory ready development and manufacturing solutions for diagnostics, medtech and cell & gene therapies,

Electronics

Design for custom analog, digital, and power electronics that meet the performance, reliability, and compliance demands

Experience Design

Designing transformative human-centered experiences and products that advance diagnostics, medical devices, life sciences and cell therapy.

Software

Our software team builds the full stack, including embedded firmware, instrument control software, touchscreen and desktop

Strategic Program Management

With the shared goal of making your product a success, we allow the flexibility to change

Temperature Control

The ever-increasing sensitivity of the technologies within healthcare requires matching improvements in thermal control and detection

Systems Engineering

Systems engineering is incredibly important and needs to be implemented from the start. It’s the guide

Product Lifecycle Management

We have a proven track record of successfully designing and integrating fluidic systems within products ranging

Consumable Design

Microfluidic cartridge design plays a key role in the successful development of a complete IVD system

Housing & Structure

Many product designs have one thing in common, there are a collection of devices that need

Robotics & Motion

Invetech has unparalleled expertise in this area, overcoming all sorts of motion challenges, from controlling motion

Optics

Invetech has a strong and dynamic optical capability developed over many years and many dozens of

Have a fluidic system we can help you design?

Send us the chemistry, the volumes, and the cartridge. We’ll show you what the failure modes are likely to be.

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