Temperature control

Our thermal team designs heating, cooling, and thermal management subsystems for thermocyclers, incubators, refrigeration units, and other temperature-critical instruments. We design across the block, the consumable, the chemistry, and the controller so the system holds protocol-grade accuracy under real-world conditions.

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Our Approach

Temperature is the most demanding control problem in many life-sciences workflows: tight tolerances, fast ramps, repeatability across thousands of cycles, and chemistry that doesn’t tolerate being a degree off. Our temperature group designs heating, cooling, and thermal management subsystems that meet protocol-grade accuracy in a real instrument, with a real consumable, in a real lab.

The work spans Peltier and resistive heating, refrigerated cooling, thermal modeling at the cartridge and instrument scales, and the closed-loop control that ties them together. All designed to survive years of duty cycle and a service interval the customer can plan around.

Why Invetech

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control accuracy at protocol-grade ramp rates

Thermal control is a system problem, not a component problem. The block, the consumable, the chemistry, and the controller all decide whether the curve holds. We design across all four because they live in the same building. Thermal modeling, control architecture, and consumable interaction get characterized together, before the first prototype ramp.

Areas of Expertise

Thermocycling

Fast, accurate, and uniform thermal cycling for PCR, isothermal, and emerging molecular assays, designed at the consumable and instrument level together.

Heating & Cooling Systems

Peltier, resistive, and refrigerated subsystems, characterized for ramp rate, uniformity, energy use, and service life.

Thermal Modeling

FEA and lumped-parameter models for cartridge, block, and chamber-scale thermal behavior, used to derisk before we cut metal.

Closed-Loop Control

Control architectures (PID, model-predictive, adaptive) that hold setpoint under load, disturbance, and aging components.

Cold-Chain & Storage

Refrigerated, frozen, and ultra-cold storage subsystems for reagents, samples, and finished consumables.

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

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

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

Fluidics

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

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 temperature problem we can help you solve?

Send us the protocol, the ramp rate, and the consumable. We’ll show you where the thermal budget actually goes.

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