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17Headquarters of the Belgian Coca-Cola Services Company in Anderlecht.Requirements for a new systemThe parameters to be determined by the new system were pHvalue and citric acid concentration in different beverages. As a vastamount of products has to be checked, the workload in the lab ofCoca-Cola Services (the Belgian subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company)is very high. Therefore, it is of great importance, that a suitableanalysis system not only provides accurate and reliable results, butalso has a high throughput and even the ability to run many samplesunattended over night. Moreover, all different sample types have tobe handled without manually adapting the workstation each time.As the sample preparation (pipetting) of this vast amount of samplesis very time-consuming and error-prone, Coca-Cola Services likedthe idea of an automated system that also offers a reproducible andprofessional sample preparation right from the start.The fully automated titration systemThe fully automated titration system actually consists of two814 USB Sample Processors with two external titration vessels andone 808 Titrando with two measurement inputs, an 805 Dosimat,two 772 Pump Units, two 800 Dosinos with Dosing Units, an802 Stirrer (propeller stirrer) and an 804 Ti Stand. Both set-ups areequipped with sample racks that can handle up to 127 vials with avolume of 11 mL sample each. The sample transfer is carried out bya Dosino-controlled pipetting tube with a specially-designed needlethat can also handle sample containing pulp.INFORMATION | 2 | 2010-11