About Our Company | Advanced Instruments

Our company’s innovations have helped organizations improve quality, achieve reliable outcomes, and increase productivity for 70 years.

Our focus on service, quality, and reliability has made us a leading developer and manufacturer of analytical instruments and services for the biopharmaceutical, clinical, and food & beverage industries. Our Artel portfolio, includes leading analytical instruments, software and services that validate, automate, and calibrate critical liquid handling processes. Our Solentim® portfolio delivers best-in-class imaging and single-cell deposition technologies for cell line development workflows. And our OsmoTECH® and OsmoPRO® micro-osmometers support labs worldwide by delivering accurate, robust and timely results.

Our Mission

To deliver innovation that optimizes processes and increases efficiency, ensuring confidence in results and improved outcomes.

Our Vision

To improve the health of every patient through innovation and excellence.

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Customer Centricity: Everything we do starts with satisfying our customers—always delivering to the highest standard. Our customers’ success is always our top priority.
Ingenuity: Our continuous curiosity, creativity, innovation, and challenging of prevailing assumptions, makes us stronger as a company and helps our customers achieve their goals.
Ownership and Accountability: We are all empowered to succeed—to be proactive and take initiative and responsibility for follow up and follow through, always delivering on our commitments.
Collaboration: Our collective experiences, strengths and perspectives enable us to achieve better results and provide a streamlined customer experience. Our customers must see us as a team.
Integrity: We act with dependability and honesty, using good judgement and respect while maintaining the highest ethical standards.

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Innovation That Works for You

We understand that professionals in the healthcare and life science industries are under pressure to meet many, sometimes competing demands, such as the need to balance tight deadlines with a rigorous commitment to quality. We’re here to remove some of that pressure.

Our expertise in putting customers at the heart of our innovation means we can stand with your teams to see opportunities in the fast-paced and seismic changes that define our industry today. By thinking ahead and working through your needs and challenges, we channel innovation into smart and practical solutions designed to maximize both productivity and quality. Through reliable products and services, ongoing training, responsive service, and reliable support, our mission is to deliver innovation that works for you.

Innovating in Bioprocessing

The work to improve health outcomes through drug discovery and development can be a risky, labor-intensive business. We understand the pressure biopharma teams face to deliver robust and confidence-inspiring results while balancing speed and rigor. Advanced Instruments knows that bringing these innovative therapeutics to market also requires innovations in supporting technology, innovations that can drive decision-making and simplify workflows. Whether you need to develop high-producing cell lines, maintain optimal cell growth, provide assurance of clonality, ensure active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) purity and yield, or confirm quality during fill and finish, our products keep processes efficient, saving time and reducing re-work across the bioprocessing and pharmaceutical markets. Complemented by validation services, educational resources, training, and robust customer support, we forge long-term partnerships to help you thrive.

Innovating in Clinical Chemistry, Microbiology and Hematology

The chronic and worsening understaffing of clinical labs is a challenge we all must face together. While medical labs differ in size and capabilities, all share the goal of improving health outcomes by delivering accurate and timely patient results. But maintaining strict security and regulatory compliance can get in the way of fast turn-around-times.

We’re thinking ahead to your next challenge, working to optimize your processes and increase efficiency whether you focus on clinical chemistry, microbiology, or hematology.

Our Clinical Solutions set the standard, delivering dependable medical lab instruments, forward thinking educational resources, and responsive support services.

Innovating in the Food and Beverage Industry

In the food and beverage industry, adhering to regulations and maintaining quality control in the face of production pressures not only protects consumers, it’s critical to your bottom line. But meeting these competing demands can also be challenging.

We develop forward-thinking technologies to help you overcome these challenges and uphold your brand promise and label claims, whether they’re focused on quality, safety, or both.

Our Food and Beverage Solutions center on our tools but are complemented by thorough training, reliable service, and ongoing support

What does it mean to be Thinking Ahead?

Byron Selman

President & CEO

Thinking Ahead means understanding and anticipating our customers’ pain points and evolving trends across the healthcare and life sciences industries. The dedicated team at Advanced Instruments is constantly innovating to increase productivity and ensure quality for all of our customers.

Delivering smarter solutions around the globe from start to finish and every step along the way

With manufacturing in the USA, users in over 90 countries, and an array of technical competencies, Advanced Instruments is well positioned to ensure that our customers achieve dependable results no matter where they are located. Our products are backed by a team of highly experienced specialists dedicated to supporting customers at the time of purchase and beyond.

Dedicated to quality

Many companies see regulatory oversight as an impediment; Advanced Instruments sees it as an opportunity. Since our early adoption, and continuous recertification of ISO-9000 quality systems, we have been at the forefront of every regulatory initiative, including: CLIA, CMDCAS, IVDD, ISO13485, RoHS and WEEE.

Focused on Customers Since 1955

Beginnings in 1955

Headquartered in Norwood Massachusetts, Advanced Instruments has spent 65+ years designing systems that help global customers improve product quality and safety, meet regulatory requirements, and reduce costs.

Experts in Freezing Point Depression

Our first products commercialized freezing-point depression technology, bringing the advantages of electronic automation to the lab (a big innovation for 1955!). Freezing-point depression technology was a classical method for solute concentration studies in dairy testing and Advanced Instruments helped establish the method with nephrologists, making it a staple of laboratory medicine.

Growing Into Microbiology

Advanced Instruments acquires Mart Microbiology in 2007, marking our entrance into the microbiology segment with the anaerobic jar system, Anoxomat®. The latest version of this system, Anoxomat® III, helps labs automatically and easily create exact and repeatable environments for microbiology labs.

Establishing A Presence in the UK

Advanced instruments acquires Vitech Scientific in 2014, our distribution partner in the United Kingdom since 1985. This acquisition brings a direct local presence of sales and support experts for our instruments throughout the United Kingdom.

Patricia Industries Provides Long Term Stability

Advanced Industries is acquired in 2020 by Patricia Industries, a long-term owner that invests in companies and works to develop each one to its full potential. Being part of Investor AB, Northern Europe’s largest industrial holding company, listed on Nasdaq Stockholm , Patricia’s ownership provides us with the resources and stability to continue delivering innovative and impactful solutions to our customers while we continue to grow.

Expanding Into Cell Line Development

Advanced Instruments acquires Solentim in 2021, expanding our ability to support the Cell Line Development space with the Solentim Ecosystem featuring VIPS®, Cell Metric®, ICON™, and STUIDUS™. Delivering best-in-class imaging and single-cell deposition technologies, the Solentim portfolio addresses critical bottlenecks in cell line development for cell lines that produce therapeutics and those that are therapeutics.

Direct Operations Expand Internationally

After many years of successful partnerships with our distributors in the EU, in 2022, Advanced Instruments establishes direct operations in France, ensuring prompt and efficient local expertise, support, and service for our instruments. Direct operations continue to expand globally with Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, and Austria following in 2023.

Enhancing Precision with Liquid Handling Verification

Advanced Instruments acquires Artel® in 2022, bringing a range of instruments, software, and services that validate, automate, and calibrate critical liquid handling processes. PCS® and MVS® provide our customers with a robust method for measuring dispensed liquid volume, keeping pipettes and liquid handlers calibrated, ensuring workflow efficiency and regulatory compliance.

Supporting Cell Line Development with Cell Growth Supplements

Advanced Instruments acquires SAL Scientific in 2022, expanding our expertise in reagents with the InstiGRO®, InstiSHAKE™, and InstiTHAW™ Cell Growth Supplements. Used in early stage biologic drug development to accelerate the selection of optimal clones, this furthers our commitment to supporting bioprocess workflows.

A Trusted Advisor

Since 1955, laboratory professionals have looked to Advanced Instruments for exceptional customer support and leading edge tools for bioprocessing development & drug manufacturing, clinical diagnostics and food & beverage quality control. Our solutions offer alternatives to the status quo, meeting lab and process challenges with practical innovations.

Interested in joining our team?

We’re always on the lookout for experienced and highly motivated individuals passionate about finding innovative solutions and providing outstanding support for our customers.

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