2024-02-27 20:40:48
ABB Robotics and Mettler-Toledo International Inc. join forces to accelerate global adoption of flexible laboratory automation
ABB Robótica and METTLER TOLEDO, a global supplier of precision instruments and services, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to offer an innovative solution that seamlessly integrates ABB robots with LabX™ in laboratory automation, the laboratory instruments from METTLER TOLEDO.
The combined solution will enable greater levels of automated, efficient, and high-quality laboratory workflows across a variety of industries, making research, testing, and quality control more flexible while accelerating time-to-product-to-market. market and reduces the impact of critical labor shortages.
“By combining METTLER TOLEDO laboratory equipment with ABB collaborative robots (cobots) that communicate through the LabX platform, we will support operations and enable the highest traceability, productivity and data management in the industry,” said Jose Manuel Collados, Service Manager at ABB Robótica. “By unlocking new possibilities in laboratory automation, our collaboration with METTLER TOLEDO will create efficiencies and unlock capabilities in the pharmaceutical, chemical, food and beverage, semiconductor and battery industries.”
Companies will accelerate the adoption of laboratory robotics technology, redefining the limits of robotics in laboratories to accelerate innovation and solve labor shortages
Laboratory automation, working in conjunction with laboratory technicians, can perform an increasingly sophisticated range of tasks faster, more consistently and with fewer errors than human workers. However, the adoption of automation in laboratories is challenged by a gap in the skills needed to handle automation technology and the complexity in creating highly sensitive workflows.
With the collaboration between the companies, METTLER TOLEDO’s LabX software will seamlessly integrate with ABB’s OmniCore™ robot controllers, enabling LabX to orchestrate robotic laboratory workflows. By combining the flexibility, ease of use and precision of ABB robots with the secure data capture, method control and instrument management of LabX, customers will be able to increase laboratory productivity, reduce system complexity, meet quality standards data and regulatory and security requirements. This will also relieve scientists and laboratory technicians from mundane and repetitive tasks, eliminating common errors and optimizing productivity – giving laboratory professionals more time to perform higher-value activities such as data analysis.
Collaboration seamlessly integrates ABB robots with METTLER TOLEDO’s LabX™ management software and its connected instruments
“Great innovation starts at the bench, especially when you can minimize process times and human errors while supporting the generation of high-quality data and information,” says Stefan Heiniger, Head of the Laboratory Division at METTLER TOLEDO . “Together, the companies will provide a powerful, intuitive and standardized toolset that will meet the needs of laboratories of all sizes and types and deliver new levels of automation, speed and insights, while reducing costs.”
Collaboration is part of the company’s ongoing strategy ABB to bring the benefits of automation to new industries around the world and complements work at the Life Sciences and Healthcare laboratory at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, in the United States, as well as the recently opened Open Innovation Laboratory for Life Sciences and Health, in Zhangjiang Robot Valley, Shanghai, China.
ABB introduces a new robotic cell to showcase its ability to automate a variety of standard laboratory processes at the SLAS2024 International Conference and Exposition, February 5-7, at the Boston Convention and Exposition Center (booth #465), in the United States .
METTLER TOLEDO is also showcasing its automation capabilities for analytical instruments, materials characterization and weighing, as well as LabX laboratory software at SLAS2024 (booth #264).
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