Motion Design are laboratory automation specialists with over 25 years of proven experience developing innovative laboratory machine products and software. Since 1999, we have engineered custom solutions designed to streamline laboratory workflows, enhance efficiency, accuracy, and throughput across a wide range of lab environments.
Our laboratory automation systems, products, and software have been successfully deployed in numerous countries worldwide, helping international labs streamline and automate sample handling, analytical chemistry and data management. By integrating robotics, AI and vision, sample and liquid handling, filter paper folding, aliquoting, and tailored software, we enable laboratories to reduce manual errors, speed up analysis, reduce repetitive strain injuries, minimise handling of dangerous chemicals and optimise overall productivity.
If your laboratory has a unique workflow or testing requirement, our team can design and build a custom automation solution tailored to your application. We can also retrofit and upgrade existing laboratory equipment to improve performance, throughput and safety.
Looking to automate a laboratory process? Contact our team to discuss a standard product or a custom laboratory automation solution.
The next-generation of automated milk sample handling systems, featuring integrated tempering (either water bath or refrigeration) and a full processing circuit for identification, inversion, and decapping. Direct presentation to analysers for bacteria enumeration, component analysis, or somatic cell count (SCC) testing.
Sample handling automation system for pairing with a bacteria enumerating milk analyser.
Automates dairy sample preparation and handling for consistent, reliable results within a chilled environment, thus improving the quality of test results.
Combi automation system for high-throughput milk component analysis and somatic cell count (SCC) testing, this machine has been sold worldwide. It automates sample warming through a controlled waterbath, mixing, and presentation for consistent, reliable test results.
Designed for milk sample pairing, this robot pairs AM and PM cow herd samples. Each sample can be separately analysed, or the two samples can be combined proportionally.
Simplify and speed up the tough job of grinding soil samples for laboratory testing with our Soil Grinding machine. Wet and dry samples and different size grinding available.
A bench top machine that rapidly folds filter paper for laboratories, in a reliable, clean, and fully automated manner.
This Motion Design machine folds laboratory filter paper into a cone shape for laboratory filtration. It can accept up to 5,000 unfolded papers of a single diameter at a time.
The Vial Capping Machine automates dispensing liquid bronopol into trays of clean vials, before applying vial caps so that sample vials are ready to go out to farms for sample collection.
This compact laboratory automation solution is simple yet effective, allowing laboratory technicians to dispense a fixed volume of diluent into multiple vials or test tubes simultaneously, quickly and accurately.
Free up lab technicians and minimise handling of dangerous chemicals the Motion Design Micro Dispenser machine. It is designed for use with MARS Microwave Digestion System turntables and vessels and it dispenses via 4 configurable pumps down to +/- 5µl for 500µl dispense.
Motion Design’s automated system prepares thick, high-viscosity samples for analysis. Engineered for honey but can be customised for other dense liquids, it streamlines mixing, weighing, and sub-sampling across multiple vials simultaneously. It eliminates heat to protect sample integrity and ensure fast, accurate laboratory results.
Our machine automates carton puncturing and aliquoting. It punctures cartons then draws precise, consistent, and repeatable samples - completing a microwell plate in 50 minutes. Optional Vision system to increase traceability.
This automated microbial counting system is designed to present Petri dishes to a bacterial colony counting vision system. It efficiently re-sorts the dishes back into their original batches and seamlessly transfers all relevant data into the LIMS.
Designed for artificial breeding, this machine efficiently dispenses fresh bovine semen straws into boxes for each order. It prints and inserts an identification label for each box.
Delivers a repeatable, fully traceable sub-sampling process. Reduce laboratory labour and human error with a robotic platform engineered for the demands of modern high throughput laboratories.
An essential tool in dairy herd improvement (DHI) and laboratory testing, designed to accurately measure milk yield in flasks with machine vision to identify trays of samples and determine volume.
Our dispenser rapidly and consistently dispenses beads into a deep well plate. Used for mechanical cell lysis (bead beating) for the extraction of nucleic acids (DNA/RNA) or proteins from biological samples.
Maximise efficiency when handling challenging raw materials. This powerful press replaces difficult manual labour by processing multiple bottles simultaneously, specifically engineered to empty containers with high-viscosity substances.
Precision sorting automation driven by two industrial robots and an advanced vision system. The SSM identifies trays and vials via RFID/Barcode while simultaneously measuring milk levels and documenting non-compliant samples. Fully LIMS-integrated, it automates sorting based on 6 analytical criteria to eliminate manual handling and ensure total traceability
With LIMS, labs can streamline processes, achieve faster turnaround times, automate workflows, and improve overall efficiency.
Motion Design is the original designer and manufacturer of all of the laboratory systems featured on this page. Proudly designed and built in New Zealand, these systems are used by testing laboratories across the dairy, food, agricultural, environmental and pharmaceutical sectors around the world to deliver consistent, audit-ready data.
We work closely with our laboratory partners to engineer solutions to address core laboratory compliance, throughput, and safety requirements including:
We are proud to work with Bentley Instruments Inc. to bring their innovative range of milk analysis instruments to New Zealand. Bentley Instruments is also an authorised European distributor of Motion Design dairy laboratory automation systems.
For further information, please contact sales@motiondesign.nz or refer to bentleyinstruments.com
Motion Design manages all machine design, manufacture, and direct sales from our head office in New Zealand. For complex machinery installations worldwide, our engineering team can travel on-site to handle commissioning and ensure the system complies fully with your site specifications. Localised regional sales, equipment distribution, and spare parts are supported through our authorised distributor network.
Dans les locaux du laboratoire OXYGEN 840 Rue Curie 62161 Marœuil, France
USA
4004 Peavery Rd Chaska Minnesota 55318 USAChina
Rm 1209, W3 Oriental Plaza 1 E Chang'an St Dongcheng District Beijing ChinaSouth Korea
Digital Empire-II, 103Dong-701, 88 Sinwon-ro Yeongtong-su, Suwon-si Gyeonggi-do South KoreaNew Zealand
21 Wookey Lane Kumeū Auckland 0810 New Zealand
Custom machine to automatically fold a range of different diameter filter papers for use in their laboratory to free up valuable resources, reduce contamination, and ensure consistent filtration between samples.
A machine to automatically fold, into a cone, filter papers for use in a NZ soil laboratory to free up valuable resources, reduce contamination, and ensure consistent filtration between samples.
A Motion Design milk sample preparation product that warms, mixes, decaps, identifies and presents to an analyser to gather milk component data.
Custom machine built for LIC’s Artificial Breeding division that counts out fresh semen straws into boxes for each order while inserting a coupon.
