Are you a research scientist working on a promising experiment that has a looming deadline for the results? Your fingers are crossed that your work will transition into the next phase of development. However, working with diverse benchtop instruments and manufacturers, each functioning independently without the capability for an automatic exchange of measurements, slows the process frustrating you and your colleagues.

Another hurdle in meeting a tight deadline is the time-consuming and error prone task of manually recording measurements from these benchtop devices then logging all the results and notes, into your Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN). 

These manual processes slow down workflows and increase the risk of costly errors. These processes impact overall productivity and, ultimately, the return on investment (ROI) by wasting valuable time and resources to the tune of millions of dollars and thousands of hours per year!
 

Benchtop Device Barriers within Today’s Lab 

If your lab hasn’t been digitally transformed, you’re dealing with several key barriers:

• Stand-alone, non-pc-based, benchtop devices that impede a smooth lab workflow.
• Without a software-based system to integrate equipment into digital workflows there isn’t an easy way to exchange information, creating data siloes.
• Even if there’s a connection it’s often unidimensional providing a “listen-only” capability, which is a partial solution at best.The diversity of equipment and manufacturers that can’t “talk” directly to an electronic lab notebook force scientists to write down their measurements and then manually transfer them to an ELN. This is labor intensive, error-prone, and reduces the time spent on actual science. It’s a poor return on investment for a scientist’s time.
   

The Lab Transformed

The digital transformation of your lab’s benchtop equipment delivers an interactive digital lab experience. Picture:

• An ecosystem free from data siloes
• Digital workflows that are sleek – frictionless - every single day
• Automation ending the manual collection and entry of data
• Seamless bidirectional connection across instruments, ELNs, LIMS, and other critical lab systems that previously existed in isolation
• Savings of millions of dollars and days of work per year.

All this and more are available to your lab from Revvity Signal’s via Signals Notebook and Signals DLX powered by Scitara.
 

Let’s Get Specific on Benchtop Device Integration

Signals DLX lets you integrate ANY lab instrument, application, or system with Signals Notebook. This improves workflow by bridging Signals Notebook with your other systems and ends manual data entry, providing more time to work on the science.

The robust integration capabilities allow you to enhance interoperability across your lab environment. With a single Signals DLX provisioned PC connected to the cloud, you can individually configure multiple benchtop devices. These devices can then be accessed directly through Signals Notebook, enabling bidirectional communication, provided the benchtop device supports it.  
 

Say goodbye to error-prone manual data entry! Our integration automatically routes from your measurement devices to Signals Notebook users, complete with automatic authentication of who took the reading. It doesn’t get much easier than that, right?  

It can. When you’re weighing a sample on a balance using Signals DLX, it provides an interactive screen that lets you interact directly with the balance from within the Signals platform. Once the weight is taken, the data automatically leads back to Signals Notebook. Here’s the bonus, text messages and pictures can be included!

The ROI on eliminating manual entries is greater than you may think. Let’s look at some of the quantitative values measured recently in this case study: Signals DLX Case Study: Integration of Instruments, Signals Notebook and Data Lake

• Global Science and Technology Company: Achieved an average savings of 28 minutes per run, totaling 188 days per year, or 8% savings in time and cost by automating data entry for eight instruments.
• Global Biopharma Company: Eliminated 500 manual transcriptions per week, saving 20 hours per week or 1,000 hours per year.
• Another Global Science and Technology Company: Saved 640 days per year.
• Case Study Insights:

                     • Workflow time savings of 188 days per year.

                     • Elimination of 1,568 potential data entry errors per year.

                     • Scalability efficiencies greater than 75%.

                     • Reduced discovery and development time.

Learn more about the software benefits and ease of use by reading a Use Case that provides an interactive experience with a balance bench device as an example: Balance: Connecting Signals Notebook to Drive Digital Transformation.

To learn more about how Revvity Signals Software is enabling the digital transformation of labs contact us for a free trial.

Watch a Scitara DLX interactive demo here. See firsthand how you can do away with manual data entry.