Bachelor Assignment

One of the product lines VyCAP is developing uses a tool which clamps a membrane onto a microwell chip. The microwell chip is filled with cells. Because of how the microwell chip is designed, each cell enters another well. When a labelled membrane is clamped to the underside of the microwell chip, the membrane captures the proteins produced by the single cells. These proteins can then be further analysed. The target of this Bachelor Assignment was to further develop this tool, and to deliver a prototype which is nearly ready for production. For the development of this tool, designs that were developed previous to this assignment were evaluated and redesigned. The tool needed to be easy to use and to function properly and consistently.