Presentation by Merck - Building the smart laboratory of the future

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Automation, robotics, and digitalization are leading the pharmaceutical industry to evolve towards machine-driven, continuous, and real-time-monitored manufacturing, and this Pharma 4.0 transformation process is reaching microbiological quality control labs. Traditionally involving a high level of repetitive manual tasks, microbial QC is set to make big strides in productivity, data integrity, and reliability by fully automating test handling and data management.

We at Merck committed to driving this transformation process. In partnerships with specialized engineering and robotic companies we are combining the best of our technologies to jointly develop integrated lab automation solutions in several areas, including:

Air and surface sampling in clean rooms and isolators (environmental monitoring)
Media plate incubation with automated colony enumeration
Fully automated bioburden testing solutions

Automatic, real-time data capturing for applications like sterility testing

In the course of our laboratory robotics and automation partnerships we are adapting and enhancing our proven microbiology laboratory equipment to make it compatible with QC automation.

MerckWe are the Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a global science and technology company, which operates as MilliporeSigma in the U.S. and Canada. Our purpose is to solve the toughest problems in life science. Our tools, services, and digital platforms empower scientists and engineers at every stage, from the lab to testing, to help deliver scientific breakthroughs in collaboration with our customers around the world. The Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, has 19,000 employees and 72 manufacturing sites worldwide, with a portfolio of more than 300,000 products enabling scientific discovery, improving quality of life for patients, fostering the success of customers and helping to meet global challenges. With a mission to streamline and improve the efficiency of analytical processes and methods, the organization has extensive expertise in developing advanced laboratory water solutions, sample filtration, smart chemicals, consumables, instrumentation, biomonitoring and overarching digital connectivity for research, industrial, pharmaceutical, and medical applications. Our Milli-Q® lab water solutions are based on a full range of highly customizable water systems with intelligent function, intuitive interfaces and digital connectivity to lab and service. The Millipore® portfolio of leading preparation, separation, filtration and testing products and technologies are strongly rooted in quality, reliability, time-tested processes and regulatory expertise. Supelco® analytical products provide the precision and reliability required in analytical testing in combination with digital smart labeling of reagents allowing better information access and consumable-instrumentation communication. LANEXO™ and BSSN™ digital solutions for lab inventory and data management improve efficiency, safety, and compliance in analytical labs worldwide. Our research and production products and instruments are manufactured in centers-of-excellence, globally distributed, with support by a best-in-class online ordering system and dedicated technical specialists. Our end-to-end manufacturing chain and technical support mean that all our products arrive when and how you need them.

Registered attendees

Anke Hossfeld

Global Product Manager BioMonitoring - Pharma InnovationMerck KGaA

Erin Patton

Sales Director, BioMonitoringMilliporeSigma

HCK

Hui Chng Khoo

Head of Regional Marketing BioM APACMerck Life Science KGaA