LabVia: Orchestrate Your Lab's Automation
Visual flow-based automation that connects your instruments, APIs, and applications without writing code.
What It Does
LabVia is a visual flow-based programming environment for laboratory automation. Instead of writing code to connect instruments, trigger workflows, or move data between systems, you build automation visually by connecting nodes on a canvas. Each node represents an action, and the connections between them define the logic.
Drag-and-Drop Flow Builder
Build automation workflows by dragging nodes onto a visual canvas and connecting them. No programming languages to learn. The visual representation makes complex processes understandable at a glance by anyone on the team.
Event-Driven Architecture
Workflows trigger automatically based on events: a new file appearing, an instrument completing a run, a timer firing, or a manual approval being granted. Your automations run when conditions are met without anyone pressing a button.
IoT Device Management
Connect and manage laboratory IoT devices directly from the LabVia interface. Monitor temperature sensors, balance readings, environmental controls, and other connected equipment with real-time data streaming into your workflows.
Visual Flow Programming
Conditional logic, loops, error handling, and parallel execution paths are all represented visually. Build sophisticated automation that would normally require custom software development, all through the flow designer.
Cloud-Based Automation Engine
Workflows execute on a managed cloud infrastructure so they run reliably even when your local machines are offline. The engine handles scheduling, retries, and error recovery automatically.
Instrument Connectivity
Pre-built connectors for major laboratory instrument brands and protocols. Connect HPLC, mass spectrometers, plate readers, and more. Custom connectors can be built for proprietary equipment.
How It Works
LabVia is an integrated component of the ELN Suite, not a standalone tool that requires separate setup or maintenance. It shares the same authentication, data layer, and audit trail as every other suite application.
You start with a blank canvas and add nodes that represent triggers, actions, and logic. A trigger might be a new file arriving from an instrument. An action might be parsing that file, running a calculation, and storing the result in an experiment record. Logic nodes handle branching, error handling, and conditional execution.
When your flow is ready, you deploy it to the cloud execution engine. From that point forward, the automation runs on its own. Every execution is logged with a complete audit trail showing exactly what happened, when, and what data was processed. You can monitor active flows, review execution history, and troubleshoot issues from the same visual interface where you built the automation.
Design Your Flow
Open the visual canvas and drag nodes for triggers, actions, and logic. Connect them to define the execution path.
Configure Connections
Point each node at the right instrument, API, or data source. Test individual connections before deploying the full flow.
Deploy and Monitor
Publish your flow to the cloud engine. Monitor executions in real time and review the complete audit trail for every run.
When You Need It
LabVia is the right tool when your lab's processes have outgrown manual steps and disconnected scripts. If you recognize any of these situations, automation with LabVia can eliminate the manual work and reduce the errors.
Multi-Instrument Workflows
Your process involves data flowing between multiple instruments, each producing files that need to be parsed, validated, and combined before results make sense. Manually moving those files and checking outputs takes hours of skilled labor that could be spent on science.
Real-Time Equipment Monitoring
Temperature excursions, pressure drops, or other environmental conditions need to trigger alerts or actions immediately. Waiting for someone to notice a problem on a walk-through is not acceptable when sample integrity is at stake.
Outgrown Spreadsheets and Scripts
Your lab's data processing relies on fragile Excel macros or Python scripts that only one person understands. When that person is unavailable, the process stops. LabVia makes automation visible, maintainable, and independent of any single team member.
Automate your lab workflows
See how LabVia connects your instruments, applications, and processes into seamless automation.