Point-of-care (POC) diagnostic devices enable rapid, accurate, and decentralized testing, but achieving this performance requires precise, coordinated motion across sample handling, reagent delivery, and analytical processes. This webinar explores the motion considerations that most impact device speed, reliability, and overall usability, offering practical insights to help guide your design decisions. We’ll also discuss how Regal Rexnord's portfolio of precision motion technologies can further support analytical accuracy, robust quality control, and cost-effective, user-friendly device architectures.
Overview
Point-of-care (POC) diagnostic devices deliver rapid, on-site results that reduce turnaround times from days to minutes, enabling faster clinical decisions and improved patient outcomes. By minimizing pre-analytical errors and increasing convenience for both clinicians and patients, POC devices offer a highly effective and often cost-efficient alternative—particularly in emergency and resource-limited settings.
Achieving this level of performance requires precise, coordinated motion across multiple internal processes, from reagent introduction to valve actuation and sample movement. Engineers face an array of motion technologies capable of meeting these demands, but selecting the optimal solution requires a clear understanding of each axis, its constraints, and the performance metrics that determine analytical accuracy within a compact device architecture.
By drawing on Regal Rexnord’s broad motion technology portfolio, engineers can design optimized subsystems that enhance throughput, scalability, and overall device reliability. This session explores a range of motor and motion technologies and demonstrates how each contributes distinct advantages—empowering next-generation POC devices with the speed, precision, and design flexibility required in today’s fast-paced laboratory environment.
Key Takeaways
- Examine the trends shaping today’s point-of-care (POC) diagnostic devices and how they influence motion requirements.
- Gain insight into the motion technologies that drive critical steps within POC systems, including sample handling, reagent delivery, and analytical workflows.
- Understand how to evaluate and select motion solutions throughout the design process to support accuracy, reliability, and user-friendly performance.
Speaker
Dave Beckstoffer is a Senior Industry Manager on the medical team at Portescap, a Regal Rexnord brand, with over 34 years of experience in the motion control industry. He brings a customer-focused mindset to every application, understanding the tie between the end product features and the motion system design. Beckstoffer is leading the development of innovative motion solutions for laboratory equipment, marrying motor, gearing, and feedback technologies to solve customer challenges and achieve the optimum design for each axis of motion.