Automation

We live in a time of unprecedented innovation. Product design cycles keep getting shorter, personalized and custom products are becoming the norm and external requirements are changing constantly. On top of this, global problems like climate change, clean energy, water, phosphorus and nitrogen flows, plastics waste and other planetary boundaries that are being transgressed are calling for redesign of almost everything we are familiar with today.

Imagine a laboratory in the future where all devices and instruments communicate their status, activities and data with each other and with enterprise information systems. Data would be acquired without manual intervention.

As the Internet of Things approaches mainstream adoption and standards for data exchange among devices mature, smart labs can become a reality. In this white paper we discuss:

• The Evolution of the Laboratory
• How Internet of Things (IoT) is a key supporting technology for Labs of the Future
• The Components of a Connected Lab