LabWare and Phizzle announce a partnership to simplify how regulated laboratories connect environmental monitoring instruments and move instrument data into LabWare LIMS.
Instrument integration remains one of the most persistent operational challenges in regulated laboratory environments. Laboratories often operate dozens of analytical and scientific instruments from multiple vendors, each producing data in its own proprietary format and communicating using different technologies. Integrating these instruments with central informatics systems has historically required custom, one-off interfaces that are complex to implement and maintain, and even more challenging for IT teams to scale.
For QA teams, inconsistent data formats and manual processes make it difficult to maintain audit-ready records and ensure data integrity in regulated environments. Manual data collection and transfer also potentially run the risk of transcription errors leading to investigations and rework.
The LabWare-Phizzle partnership is designed to address these challenges in manufacturing clean rooms by arming IT teams with a straightforward instrument integration process and enabling environmental monitoring operators to receive results through streamlined workflows, monitor real-time instrument activity, maintain continuous audit logs, and initiate samples remotely within LabWare's EM software.
The partnership combines LabWare's laboratory informatics platform with Phizzle's Edge Puck, a cleanroom-ready gateway designed for regulated manufacturing and laboratory environments. The Edge Puck is a small, portable device that connects directly to lab instruments and then transfers data directly to LabWare using APIs from Phizzle's Connected Plant solution, eliminating the need for manual data collection and processing. The solution can also standardize communication across multi-vendor equipment.
By reducing manual data handling and simplifying integration, the solution helps laboratories improve data reliability and support data integrity expectations outlined in regulations such as 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11, and ALCOA+ principles.
The collaboration will initially focus on environmental monitoring applications, with plans to expand to additional use cases involving the monitoring and control of other laboratory and manufacturing instruments.
Phizzle's Edge Puck acts as a gateway between scientific instruments and digital systems, helping connect instruments that may not have modern networking capabilities and supporting standardized communication with upstream software systems. The device is designed for GxP laboratory environments and can connect to modern and legacy instruments through common interfaces, including Ethernet, serial, and USB. While other devices cannot meet the cleaning requirements for use in clean rooms, the Edge Puck is purpose-built to handle these conditions.
Together, the companies aim to reduce integration complexity, accelerate onboarding of new instruments and systems, and support more scalable instrument automation across laboratory and manufacturing environments.