ASPA means Automated Solution Production and Aliquoting is a fully automated R&D compound service.
Problem:
- The Client faces an increasing number of orders for powder solutions production. Orders come from different sites around the world, and need to be processed with different priorities.
- This is a challenge for the compound management team, which needs to increase their productivity, sample tracking and sample prioritization to meet the demand and optimize their activities.
Aim:
- Implementation of an automated platform to automize powder weighting and liquid handling activities, as part of a large global initiative.
- The platform aims to reduce results variability, increase the testing capacity, increase the productivity, provide a contained handling of solvent product to minimise the operator exposure, and process vials based on their priority.
inite’s role:
- Responsible for system specifications and manage the functional design specification phase of the system implementation.
- Architect the high throughput solution.
- Negotiate with stakeholders to find the best solution to meet the business and technical requirements, identify inconsistencies.
Value add:
- Automatization and and optimization of lab processes
- Standardization of order processing across the department globally
- Speed up drug discovery
- Compound stock optimization
- Harmonized data landscape
- Reduce knowledge silo