LUMITOS and SPECTARIS present the first digital lab day in May 2025

Digital event for the laboratory sector offers a unique platform for innovation and networking

17-Mar-2025 - Following the great success of the virtual battery day, LUMITOS AG is launching a new digital event format for the laboratory industry with the digital lab day. In cooperation with SPECTARIS, the leading industry association for analytics, biotechnology and laboratory technology, the digital lab ...

Data recycling with AI: How new knowledge is created from old information

Munich start-up combats data chaos

17-Mar-2025 - Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, outdated databases - unstructured data sources are piling up in many companies, making it difficult to access valuable information. Technical specifications, standard documents and historical test reports often contain valuable findings, but remain hidden in inaccessible ...

High-tech startup CrySyst provides quality-by-control solutions for pharmaceutical, fine chemical industries

“These tools reduce time, material usage and risk while enhancing process robustness and scalability”

04-Mar-2025 - International process systems and operation experts have launched high-tech startupCrystallization Systems Technology Inc.(CrySyst) to streamline processes used by companies in the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries. CrySyst’s quality-by-control (QbC) framework addresses ...

Eschbach receives the Best of Industry Award for Artificial Intelligence for the second time in a row

"AI technologies are increasingly becoming an integral part of process management..."

04-Mar-2025 - Global process industry software developer eschbach has once again won the Best of Industry Award 2024 in the special category of Artificial Intelligence for its Shiftconnector® Smart Solutions module. This award marks the second year in a row that eschbach has won in this category, having ...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry: How protein discoveries benefit research at BASF

Computational protein design and protein structure prediction speed up day-to-day research

05-Dec-2024 - On December 10, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will award this year’s Nobel Prizes in Stockholm, Sweden. The prizes for chemistry this year are all about proteins, considered the building blocks of life. David Baker (University of Washington, Seattle, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, ...

A turning point in packaging development - with the AI application hub for plastic packaging

04-Nov-2024 - The AI application hub for sustainable packaging development through the use of artificial intelligence, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research and Education, is presenting its first major milestones in a Germany-wide campaign at four different locations in November. In Aachen, Darmstadt, ...

Expanded possibilities for laboratory digitalization and connectivity

labforward merges with LabTwin

18-Sep-2024 - labforward GmbH, a leading provider of solutions for digital transformation in the laboratory with a platform for the digital integration of laboratory equipment and the connectivity of entire workflows consisting of an electronic laboratory journal (ELN, Electronic Lab Notebook) and a laboratory ...

AI Adoption Stagnates in German Companies

Research and development uses AI most commonly for data analysis and modelling

29-Aug-2024 - German companies use artificial intelligence (AI) more frequently than the EU average. However, this usage has stagnated since 2021, according to a recent study by ZEW Mannheim for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. “AI is increasingly gaining attention in public ...

Meraxis partners with AI start-up POLYMERIZE

Collaboration for a greener, more efficient polymer industry

27-Aug-2024 - Meraxis and the AI deep-tech start-up POLYMERIZE have forged a strategic partnership. POLYMERIZE is a developer and provider of a materials informatics platform, which is specifically tailored to the research and development needs in the polymer industry. POLYMERIZE’s Software-as-a-Service ...

Simply configure: GenISys brings generative AI to plant engineering

15-Jul-2024 - In the "GenISys" project, researchers at the University of Wuppertal are working with two practice partners to develop generative AI models to make the construction of bottling plants more intelligent and resource-efficient in the future. The overarching aim is to promote the use of artificial ...