SciY integrates Optimal Group to advance laboratory automation
SciY has announced the integration of Optimal Industrial Technologies and Optimal Industrial Automation into its Laboratory Digitalization Suite, creating a unified vendor-agnostic platform that connects molecular research, quality control laboratories, and full-scale biopharma and specialty chemicals manufacturing environments through advanced automation capabilities.
SciY’s strategic integration of Optimal Group represents a significant advancement in laboratory digitalization technology, consolidating scientific software expertise with proven automation solutions. This unified approach addresses the growing demand for seamless laboratory-to-manufacturing workflows in the pharmaceutical and specialty chemicals sectors.
The integration brings together Optimal’s synTQ® Process Analytical Technology (PAT) Knowledge Management software platform with comprehensive automation solutions, enabling life scientists and chemical engineers to implement scalable workflows spanning the entire molecular product lifecycle. This consolidated approach eliminates traditional barriers between discovery research, quality control, and commercial production phases.
Comprehensive laboratory digitalization capabilities
The newly integrated SciY platform delivers laboratory automation and precision robotics for research and development alongside quality control applications. The system incorporates artificial intelligence and machine learning-ready analytical data lakes with built-in contextualisation and governance protocols, ensuring data integrity throughout the research pipeline.
Process Analytical Technology capabilities include analytical knowledge management, experiment design, scheduling, and comprehensive data management systems. Real-time laboratory and process monitoring features enable model-based process control, supporting the development of autonomous laboratory environments and molecular factories designed for continuous improvement protocols.
Streamlined innovation adoption
“Our lab software and automation experts have been collaborating for years,” said Eamonn Garry, Director synTQ and Industrial Automation Solutions at SciY. “Now that integration is beneficial to our customers, making it even easier to adopt new software and automation innovation without disrupting what already works.”
The integration specifically targets the reduction of implementation barriers for digital transformation initiatives. By harmonising previously separate software and automation systems, researchers can maintain existing operational protocols while accessing enhanced analytical capabilities.
Strategic positioning in pharmaceutical manufacturing
Santiago Dominguez, President of SciY, emphasised the platform’s comprehensive approach: “We are lowering the barrier to laboratory digital transformation, from the first bench-scale experiment to validated molecular manufacturing. By bringing Optimal’s know-how fully into our vendor-agnostic SciY ecosystem, biopharma scientists and chemical engineers can move seamlessly from data to decision and to action.”
The SciY Laboratory Digitalization Suite integrates technologies originally developed by Mestrelab, Optimal, ZONTAL, Arxspan, and LOGS within the Bruker laboratory software ecosystem, creating a unified vendor-agnostic platform for comprehensive laboratory digitalization initiatives.
