LabWare Inc. and Mettler-Toledo International Inc. Boost Laboratory Productivity through New Plug-and-Play Software Integration

August 28, 2024

[Wilmington, Delaware, 29 August 2024} LabWare Inc. and METTLER TOLEDO (NYSE: MTD)  are pleased to announce their collaboration that introduces a new laboratory software connector.

This new capability seamlessly integrates LabWare's laboratory information management systems (LabWare LIMS®) and electronic lab notebook (LabWare ELN®) with the diverse laboratory instruments that feature the LabX™ software solution from METTLER TOLEDO.

The collaboration between METTLER TOLEDO, a global provider of precision lab instruments and related software solutions, and LabWare, a global leader in the development and provision of laboratory information management systems and instrument integration software products, are ideally suited to provide enhanced connectivity and integration in laboratory environments. The new connector provides a significant increase in productivity and reduced complexity, which are important toward increasing confidence in a lab’s operational and quality standards.

“In an increasingly complex world, providing customers with clearly defined, functional solutions is essential," says Stefan Heiniger, Head of Laboratory Division at METTLER TOLEDO. “Our collaboration with LabWare enables easy integration of two systems, allowing customers to connect their systems in a plug-and-play manner, reducing workflow risks and uncertainties. Integrating LabX with LabWare LIMS and ELN also enables a nearly paperless lab, which greatly improves sustainability and saves time and costs.”

This out-of-the-box software connector delivers additional benefits to laboratories and companies:

  • Efficient and Automated End-to-End Data Flow: Enabling seamless data flow across all work tasks.
  • Accuracy and Error Reduction: Removing manual transcription, increasing accuracy, and minimizing errors, which reduces the need to redo tasks. This also minimizes the use and potential waste of lab materials.
  • Step-by-Step User Guidance: Providing clear instructions at the instrument touchscreens, reducing processing errors, and ensuring full reproducibility.
  • Reduced Maintenance and Training: Requiring significantly less maintenance, training, servicing, and validation, leading to savings in time, effort, and costs.
  • Highest Level of Data Quality and Integrity: Ensuring complete audit trails and the highest level of data integrity.

    The integration of LabWare’s LIMS and ELN with LabX software from METTLER TOLEDO also meets the needs of laboratories that continue to adopt digitization, automation, and robotics to increase data flow efficiencies. This solution also boosts productivity and increases the seamless integration of different instruments. 

     “LabWare and METTLER TOLEDO have responded to the requests from the customer base. With the commitment of both parties, we managed to create a very powerful integration using the native APIs,” says Vance Kershner, President and CEO of LabWare. “A very open and friendly relationship allowed a small group of the right people to achieve great results in a short time. We are very pleased to deliver world-class solutions and to have created a collaboration that brings expertise from both sides, offering to the customers the benefit of a robust connection in all sectors where LabWare and METTLER TOLEDO operate (like pharma, food, chemical, etc.). This will provide a seamless experience integrating the two systems with the benefit of ensuring data quality so scientists and analysts will be able to focus on what is more beneficial for their business.”