Laboratory Automation

Automation is an essential feature of the modern laboratory. The increases in capacity and productivity that result are obvious benefits of automation, but the accompanying increases in data quality and standardization are just as beneficial, and are particularly valuable in achieving regulatory compliance. Automation also opens the door to new capabilities and ways of working, like HTE (High Throughput Experimentation).

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The complete laboratory process that you may want to implement will often extend beyond the capabilities of any single product and may require the integration of instruments and software from many different vendors. Tessella has a long track record of building automated laboratory solutions around instruments and software from different suppliers. We provide vendor-independent software services to build integrated laboratory systems to compliment your investment in instrument hardware and vendor software, with custom interfaces, informatics and complete laboratory workflow solutions.

Interfaces – bridging the gaps

Many vendors now provide some degree of integration with competitors’ products but this may still fall short of your needs. The consequence is often lengthy manual manipulation and reformatting of data with consequent increases in cost and potential loss of data quality. Tessella will select the most appropriate technique to close these interface gaps (using instrument software APIs, translation to industry standard formats or low-level data reformatting when necessary) picking up where the vendor product ends to provide the higher level of integration that you need.

Laboratory Workflows – managing your processes

Overall, management of your integrated laboratory requires high-level planning, coordination and control; from experimental design, ELN and LIMS integration, through to data analysis, reporting and archiving. Tessella can provide custom-built laboratory workflow and informatics solutions to help you get the best value from your laboratory and ensure the consistent use of your SOPs and best practice. Our experience of GLP, 21 CFR part 11 and FDA submissions ensures that we do this also meeting your regulatory needs.

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