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Creating a Digital Lab for a Global Biotech Player

The biotech company's goal was to introduce highly digitalized laboratory by leveraging emerging technologies and procedures automation.

Solution

Digital Lab

Industry

Biotechnology

Scope

IoT / Smart Devices / Digitalization / Automation / Data Gateway

Timeframe

4-12 weeks

30 +

devices connected with unified communication

5

cloud platforms tested & assessed in lab environment

65%

reduction of data collection time

The client

The client is a global bioscience corporation that delivers innovative biotech and healthtech solutions. It deals primarily with discovering new medicines and ways to treat rare diseases, advancing genome editing technologies, and developing innovative components for laboratories.

Business needs

The company's goal was to introduce an innovative, highly digitalized laboratory by leveraging smart, emerging technologies and procedures automation. They wanted to introduce the Lab of The Future with ubiquitous connectivity.This was supposed to accelerate work and improve the decision-making process thanks to sophisticated digital tools and solutions based on the IT environment.

The challenge

  • 01

    Diverse ecosystem of systems, processes, and datasets

  • 02

    Different types of equipment

  • 03

    Insights were difficult to ascertain

  • 04

    The amount of manually collected data made processes very cumbersome and challenging

Our solution

  1. Creating a vision for the Lab of the Future

    We had the privilege of supporting our client in creating the strategy vision for the lab. Working on a shared vision in collaboration with different departments from the client’s organization and lab equipment providers, we created a roadmap to maximize the efficiency and performance of lab processes and operations.

  2. Integrating lab equipment & consolidating data

    We designed several IoT and infrastructure solutions and deployed them in the lab environment. The main component we developed was the Data Gateway. DG was responsible for collecting all data and sending it to the cloud platform for further analysis. Data gateways mounted on devices captured data streams directly from the physical interfaces (RSS-323). We connected to systems like the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) or Distributed Control Systems (DCS ) whenever possible. All connectivity was secured and embedded in the corporate network. In 2021, we worked on designing and building prototypes of smart modular sensors. We used the OPCUA communication standard, and MTP data model. In this case, we were able to lay the foundations for the lab of the future to get safe, effective new therapeutics into production quickly. Marcel Domagała Head of Digital Lab

Technology used

  • 3D Modeling and Printing
  • IoT and OT communication protocols
  • Microcontrollers
  • PLC programming
  • Python
  • C/C++
  • JS

The outcome

Thanks to the solution from our team, the client gains control and communication capabilities that turn laboratory data insights into productive outcomes for both upstream and downstream processes. In addition, the digital twin of the lab is ready and can be used to enable capabilities like Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. As a result, our client was able to:

  • Digitalise the work in the lab and move to paperless processing
  • Reduce times of experiment cycles, data collection by approx. 65%
  • Enable an intensified & continuous process
  • Increase data visibility - near real time data collection
  • Enable collaboration
  • Elimination of manual errors / Improved data quality
Marcel Domagała
In 2021, we worked on designing and building prototypes of smart modular sensors. We used the OPCUA communication standard, and MTP data model. In this case, we were able to lay the foundations for the lab of the future to get safe, effective new therapeutics into production quickly.
Marcel Domagała — Head of Digital Lab

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