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WHO WE ARE Parker Life Sciences offers reliable fluidic and motion control products, MetaModules, and systems to customers in life sciences and in analytical instrumentation markets.

improving our business processes to ensure our products have the highest value and quality for the companies we serve.

market-focused, application-specific engineered solutions and enabling technologies for motion and fluidic control. Parker Life Sciences offers a range of products and solutions.

1 WHO WE ARE Parker Life Sciences offers reliable fluidic and motion control products, MetaModules, and systems to customers in life sciences and in analytical instrumentation markets. As part of Parker Hannifin Corporation, a world leader in motion control technologies and precision engineered solutions, Parker Life Sciences operates as a lean enterprise focused on continually improving our business processes to ensure our products have the highest value and quality for the companies we serve. MISSION STATEMENT Parker Life Sciences will advance its position as a world-class strategic partner for OEMs in life science instrumentation, fulfilling its customers' unmet needs by developing market-focused, application-specific engineered solutions and enabling technologies for motion and fluidic control. Parker Life Sciences offers a range of products and solutions. This catalog features many of our products with a focus on valves and pumps and a sampling of other products from our Automation Group, including: DIGITAL AND PROPORTIONAL MINIATURE SOLENOID VALVES Pneumatic Valves Liquid and Ultra-High Vacuum Valves Custom Fluidic Systems Electronic Pressure Controls MINIATURE DIAPHRAGM PUMPS STRUCTURAL FRAMING Industrial Profile Systems PNEUMATICS Pneumatic Valves, Cylinders, Grippers, Sensors, and Regulators ELECTROMECHANICAL MOTION Miniature Stages & Positioning Systems Storage and Retrieval Systems Liquid Handling Robot Modules OEM Servo and Stepper Motors OEM Servo and Stepper Drives High-Performance Motion Controllers Graphical User Interfaces ACTUATORS & SLIDES GAS GENERATION & FILTRATION Nitrogen Gas Generators Zero Air Generators Air and Liquid Filtration ENGINEERED SEALING SOLUTIONS Perfluorinated O-rings Molded Shapes Metal-Rubber Bonding Spring Energized PTFE Seals High Temperature Seals FITTINGS & TUBING PFA/PTFE Tubing, Fittings, and Valves Quick Coupling EMI SHIELDING & THERMAL MANAGEMENT Manifold Diaphragm Valves Seals Miniature Solenoid Valves i

WE ARE ENGINEERS By choosing Parker, you are guaranteed high quality, reliable products and market-driven innovation.

" We know you are working hard to advance drug discovery and healthcare within a highly competitive environment.

By developing engineered solutions and enabling technologies to meet the evolving needs of the OEM life sciences marketplace, Parker can be an important extension of your lean organization.

2 WE ARE ENGINEERS By choosing Parker, you are guaranteed high quality, reliable products and market-driven innovation. That's because you are partnering with an $8 billion dollar global company built by engineers who believe in "anything possible." We know you are working hard to advance drug discovery and healthcare within a highly competitive environment. With our extensive technical and financial resources, you can have confidence that Parker is working hard for you as well. By developing engineered solutions and enabling technologies to meet the evolving needs of the OEM life sciences marketplace, Parker can be an important extension of your lean organization. OEM APPLICATION EXPERTS Parker employs engineers and scientists with extensive life science experience. This enables us to collaborate with customers on an engineer-to-engineer and scientist-to-scientist level, allowing us to deliver strategic products and solutions in: - Automation & Motion Control - Miniature Solenoid Valves & Diaphragm Pumps - Filtration & Gas Generation - Seals, Shielding, & Housings - Tubing, O-rings, & Fittings Parker products, subsystems, and systems are integral to the world's drug discovery, bioanalytical, and medical instrumentation industries. From miniature solenoid valves and pumps to highly integrated automation systems, Parker Life Sciences develops solutions that help OEM instrument builders speed their products to market faster and lower their overall cost of ownership. ENGINEERING SOLUTION PROVIDERS Parker Life Sciences offers much more than off-the-shelf component parts, application-specific customization, and special testing for components. Parker also integrates the full range of its technologies into pre-engineered subsystems that reduce an OEM's technical risk, as well as lower its development cost and time. Our engineers and scientists have the industry expertise along with the manufacturing and project leadership to ensure our solutions work seamlessly in your product. We understand the requirements of your life science applications, which means you can focus on your core science and technology and leave the fluidic and motion control systems to us. When we partner with customers, we get involved early in the design process to gain the greatest value from collaboration and to provide successful product integration. With a single solution provider that can design, prototype, and manufacture, you benefit from shortened design and production cycles. By working with a lean enterprise, you will simplify your procedures and enjoy convenient customer service and one point of contact. Pneumatic Thrust Slides Diaphragm Pumps Miniature OEM Motion Control Products ii

3 WHAT WE DO WE ARE A COLLABORATIVE ENGINEERING PARTNER THROUGHOUT YOUR OEM DESIGN CYCLE from concept to design, through production and sustaining phases CONCEPT FEASIBILITY DESIGN PILOT PRODUCTION SUSTAINING > Collaborative > Early Supplier > Rapid > Release Final > Release Plan > Productivity Engineering Involvement Prototyping Design for Logistics Metrics/ > One Contact Across Parker > Design for Mfg. & Assembly > Initiate Documentation, > Deliver Documentation, > Inventory Management Quarterly Check Points Technologies (DFMA)/Failure Drawing Test Plans, & Systems (JIT, > Identify Mutual Mode and Package, & Drawing Kanban, MRP, Cost Reduction Effect Analysis Components Package or Kitting) Opportunities (FMEA) / Advanced Product Quality Planning Engineering > Quality Metrics /Quarterly Check Points (APQP) Parker works as a valuable source of innovation, using our engineering, manufacturing, and quality planning expertise to critically evaluate design concepts. We eliminate development risk factors using collaborative engineering and rapid prototyping. This upfront work uncovers any initial design discrepancies, so we can ensure that production will meet feasibility requirements and any regulations governing production. By working alongside our customers during their product development, we can deliver extra value in the areas of prototyping, data validation, design for manufacturing and assembly, and documentation. As a processdriven, lean enterprise, Parker thoroughly tests its products to achieve a smooth transition from concept to production, which is important for the successful launch of our customers' new products. By using productivity metrics and maintaining uncompromised quality control, we ensure that our solutions match customer specifications. Throughout the entire product lifecycle, Parker works to ensure our customers' return on investment and to drive advancements in the life sciences industry. SHORTER DESIGN CYCLES. COMPATIBLE FUNCTIONALITY. REDUCED COSTS. iii

PRE-ENGINEERED OEM SUBSYSTEMS SERVICE AND SUPPORT Parker Life Sciences' lean manufacturing methods allow us to respond quickly to your orders and special requests.

We also provide single point ordering for all Parker products. Worldwide support ensures that your system, plant, or equipment can be serviced and supported anywhere.

4 PRE-ENGINEERED OEM SUBSYSTEMS SERVICE AND SUPPORT Parker Life Sciences' lean manufacturing methods allow us to respond quickly to your orders and special requests. Our industryexperienced sales force, knowledgeable application engineers, and friendly customer service representatives are available for your technical assistance and ordering needs. We also provide single point ordering for all Parker products. Worldwide support ensures that your system, plant, or equipment can be serviced and supported anywhere. PARKER'S SELECTABLE LEVELS OF INTEGRATION Parker's selectable levels of integration mean that we can offer the perfect fit solution to meet your needs. You can choose from components such as our solenoid valves, subsystems such as multiaxis positioning systems, or complete fluidic or electromechanical motion systems. Whatever your needs, you can integrate the performance and reliability features that you want and that your customers and regulatory standards require. We design and manufacture all the components of a complete fluidic and motion control system. Parker Life Sciences understands what it takes to ensure compatible designs that seamlessly integrate with your products. Improve modularity and reduce dependence on components Lower technical risks Optimize engineering resources and focus on core technology Your customers require the flexibility and adaptability that modular engineering delivers, but as an OEM instrument manufacturer, you must ensure you have zero risk of component incompatibility. You also need to collaborate with a partner that can offer measurable savings in project cost and time. METAMODULES MetaModules are pre-engineered subsystems designed to meet the precision fluidic and motion control requirements needed by life science applications. MetaModules are: OEM application-specific an adaptive platform that incorporates a broad range of Parker's technologies, including pneumatics, fluidics, and motion control used to design a modular system that works seamlessly with your instrumentation, with little to no customization For example, you can select dispensing modules with a range of ultralow to standard volumes and combine this with robotic positioning modules that offer exactly the motion precision you demand. Imagine getting the accuracy and repeatability you need with less time, money, and effort. Whether you build patient monitors, patient care devices, mass spectrometers, or liquid handlers, MetaModules offer more than just a list of parts to add to your BOM. Now, you have a new choice for fluidics and motion control solutions. CONTACT YOUR PARKER LIFE SCIENCES ASSOCIATE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ADVANTAGES OF METAMODULES TODAY. Electronic Pressure Control Modules MetaModules is a trademark of Parker Hannifin Corporation. Liquid Handling Positioning Module iv

5 WHY PARKER? The value to our OEM partners includes: > DECREASED RISK > INCREASED SPEED TO MARKET > LOWERED TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP BOTTOM LINE Parker Life Sciences offers customers more than precision-manufactured, reliable parts; we offer a diverse knowledge base of engineering experts, as well as the assistance of dedicated customer service representatives. We have the experience, history of performance, and uncompromising commitment to quality that you can rely on to meet your project schedules. WITH PARKER, YOU KEEP TECHNICAL RISKS LOW AND BUSINESS RESULTS HIGH. OEM instrument manufacturers build products that deliver performance, precision, cost, and quality. Parker Life Sciences works alongside industry leading manufacturers to design components and modules that seamlessly integrate with these products. As breakthrough technology results in smaller devices and drives innovations in portable and miniature medical instruments and in improved clinical and diagnostic tools, our engineers are working to create miniature valves, pumps, motors, and stages that support these engineered solutions and help bring this technology to market sooner rather than later. From hospital and research settings to at-home care devices, from drug discovery to pharmaceutical manufacturing, Parker Life Sciences offers faster time to market and reduced costs for your solution needs. FOR THE LATEST PRODUCT NEWS, TO FIND US AT A TRADESHOW, OR FOR ADDITIONAL ORDERING INFO, VISIT: v

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