Tecan launches new digital tools at SLAS 2024
Latest digital product releases promise to enhance lab productivity
1 Feb 2024
Product news
Tecan has unveiled two new digital products – the LabNavigator™ and the Next-Gen Introspect™ at the SLAS2024 International Conference and Exhibition to improve the efficiency of laboratory operations. The new tools promise to bring the transformative power of digitalization to laboratory operations, empowering researchers and lab technicians with the most advanced, user-friendly, integrated technologies.
The scale-up of laboratory research is often hindered by a lack of automation expertise and the complexity brought by disconnected workflows. As throughput increases, digitalization is crucial to overcoming these challenges by streamlining lab processes, as well as maximizing overall lab effectiveness, and helping lab technicians to overcome skill barriers.
LabNavigator is a cloud-based, intuitive digital product that guides lab operators through end-to-end workflows using a single, straightforward interface. It builds an interconnected lab by seamlessly combining lab equipment – including Tecan liquid handling platforms and selected third-party devices – as part of an open digital ecosystem. LabNavigator creates easy-to-follow, end-to-end workflows, enabling entry-level staff to effectively operate systems via a user-friendly interface that provides quick and easy onboarding. This not only multiplies the impact of experienced personnel, it increases the quality and reproducibility of lab processes. Overall, the ‘single pane of glass’ approach unifies heterogeneous automation systems to enable seamless scalability across multiple labs.
Tecan’s second digital product is Next-Gen Introspect, which will be commercially released in Q2 2024. This state-of-the-art laboratory insights tool builds on Tecan’s well-established platform, Introspect. Next-Gen Introspect has been designed to offer an intuitive user experience, employing advanced data science to convert instrument and workflow data into actionable insights that will maximize the utilization, quality, and performance of instrument fleets. Next-Gen Introspect unlocks service excellence by enabling remote diagnostics and service support, leading to higher instrument uptimes and fewer unplanned outages. The existing features focused on run success rates, consumables consumption, and real-time monitoring, have been meticulously enhanced, helping lab managers to truly maximize their valuable resources. Both Next-Gen Introspect and LabNavigator are built on modern and secure back-end architectures, ensuring data and process security.