LabWare and Phizzle Partner to Eliminate Manual Instrument Data Transfer in Pharmaceutical Cleanroom Labs
AI / Machine Learning | 3 min read
LabWare, a global provider of laboratory informatics trusted by more than 30,000 laboratories across 125 countries, and Phizzle, an innovator in laboratory data integration for regulated manufacturing environments, have announced a partnership to simplify how regulated laboratories connect environmental monitoring instruments and move instrument data into LabWare LIMS. The partnership combines LabWare's laboratory informatics platform with Phizzle's Edge Puck — a cleanroom-ready hardware gateway device — and Phizzle's Connected Plant™ API solution, to eliminate manual data collection, remove the need for custom one-off instrument interfaces, and enable real-time, audit-ready environmental monitoring in pharmaceutical and regulated manufacturing cleanrooms.
"Our customers depend on LabWare to run complex laboratory workflows with confidence. Integration is one of the biggest operational bottlenecks in testing and manufacturing. By removing the need for manual data transfer and custom interfaces, this partnership gives teams a more scalable way to connect instruments, reduce compliance risk, and focus on strategic work."
— Kyle Kershner, Co-CEO, LabWare
The Persistent Problem: Instrument Integration in Regulated Labs
Instrument integration remains one of the most persistent operational challenges in regulated laboratory environments. Pharmaceutical and manufacturing laboratories typically 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, difficult to maintain, and challenging for IT teams to scale as laboratory environments grow and instrument fleets change. For QA teams, the consequences of inconsistent data formats and manual processes go beyond operational inefficiency: they make it difficult to maintain audit-ready records and ensure data integrity in regulated environments where GxP compliance and data traceability are non-negotiable.
The Edge Puck and Connected Plant™: How the Partnership Solves It
The core of the solution is Phizzle's Edge Puck — a small, portable, cleanroom-ready gateway device that connects directly to lab instruments and transfers data directly to LabWare via APIs from Phizzle's Connected Plant™ solution. The Edge Puck is purpose-built for GxP laboratory environments — designed for the strict cleaning requirements of pharmaceutical cleanrooms that other devices cannot meet — and connects to both modern and legacy instruments through common interfaces including Ethernet, serial, and USB. It can also standardise communication across multi-vendor equipment, solving the heterogeneous instrument landscape challenge without requiring instrument-by-instrument custom integration work. For environmental monitoring operators within LabWare, the partnership enables streamlined results workflows, real-time instrument activity monitoring, continuous audit logs, and the ability to initiate samples remotely within LabWare's EM software — moving from reactive, manual data collection to proactive, automated, audit-ready environmental monitoring.
Key Takeaways
- • LabWare (30,000+ laboratories, 2,500+ companies, 125 countries) and Phizzle have partnered to eliminate manual instrument data transfer in pharmaceutical and regulated manufacturing cleanroom labs — combining LabWare LIMS with Phizzle's Edge Puck hardware gateway and Connected Plant™ API solution to automate environmental monitoring data flow.
- • The core problem: regulated laboratories operate dozens of multi-vendor instruments, each in proprietary data formats with different communication technologies. Historical instrument integration has required complex, custom one-off interfaces — costly to implement, difficult to maintain, and hard for IT teams to scale. Manual data processes create audit-ready record gaps and data integrity risk in GxP regulated environments.
- • Phizzle's Edge Puck: a small, portable, cleanroom-purpose-built hardware gateway connecting directly to lab instruments (modern and legacy; Ethernet, serial, USB interfaces); transfers data directly to LabWare via Connected Plant™ APIs; standardises communication across multi-vendor equipment; designed specifically for GxP environments with cleanroom-grade cleaning requirements that other devices cannot meet.
- • Four operational outcomes for environmental monitoring teams within LabWare EM software: streamlined results workflows; real-time instrument activity monitoring; continuous audit logs; ability to initiate samples remotely. For IT teams: a straightforward instrument integration process replacing complex custom interface development.
- • Combined goals of the partnership: reduce integration complexity; accelerate onboarding of new instruments and systems; support more scalable instrument automation across laboratory and manufacturing environments — enabling labs to focus on strategic scientific work rather than manual data collection and custom interface maintenance.