The AK 12 serves laboratories that reprocess glassware and hospital departments that reprocess utensils such as breast milk pumps in Miele machines. Laboratory technicians and decontamination staff load it with beakers, funnels, wide-necked glassware, and other utensils, along with breast milk pumps. Sites that clean industrial parts in the IPC version of the PLW 8636 can also use it.
Loading is a matter of placing the items in the insert as one mixed load. A breast milk pump, beakers and funnels can sit in it together, and the 434 × 224 mm insert then goes into a compatible machine. When the programme ends, the items come out together, still held in the same insert. Wide-necked glassware joins the same load, since Miele also files the insert for that kind of glass.
The insert suits sites whose work crosses laboratory and clinical lines. A hospital that reprocesses breast milk pumps in a PG 8562 and laboratory glassware in a PG 8535 can use the same insert design in both machines. The PG 8536 and the PLW 8636, in their LAB and LAB MON versions, extend that choice on the laboratory side. One insert type then covers both kinds of load in a shared decontamination area.
At 0.74 kg, the stainless steel insert is light to carry between the loading area and the machine. As a passive component, it needs neither charging nor electrical safety testing. Miele files it as an insert or module for beakers and for wide-necked glassware, and among its other inserts. The material number 03830510 identifies it for reorders.