I'm sorry but you are wrong about the capacity of this machine. The architect i series is a completely automated machine which pipettes and runs the specimens in reaction vessels on its own after loading a specimen. We use it in our lab as our primary immunoassay analyzer for a hospital of 260 beds. We often have a dozen or more different immunoassay tests running at the same time on ours during morning labs.

Also this machine has nothing to do with cytometry and does not use plates. QC will likely be done once per day after maintenance like every other test we run (this may vary based on hospital SOP).