Flexible Automation: A New Approach to Meet Evolving Chemistry Challenges

DATE

December 6, 2022

TIME

8:00 a.m. PST / 11:00 a.m. EST / 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET - Duration: 60 Minutes

Overview

Automated executions of chemical synthesis and discovery has risen as a critical enabling technology. New tools combining advanced robotics with experiment planning by machine learning, known as self-driving labs, are now attainable. However, the optimal deployment of these technologies remains under development, requiring a recursive design-make-build cycle dedicated to tuning and evolving the robotic platform.

This new approach has been termed â€˜flexible automationâ€™ and enables the cost and time-effective design, construction and reconfiguration of automated experiments. By leveraging many of the principles from Industry 4.0, including rapid fabrication, Internet-of-Things devices, cloud-based software, and open-source API we have created a set of simple reconfigurable tools to address a diverse set of applications spanning pharmaceutical process chemistry and even impacting mining and resource extraction. These rapid improvements are made possible through the fusion of best-in-class existing hardware (eg, Unchained Labs Junior for liquid handling and HTE, Mettler-Toledo EasyMax for large scale automated lab reactor, Agilent UPLC for online analysis, Vaportec R-Series for continuous plug-flow reactions) with a variety of bespoke tools and code to integrate complicated workflows. This presentation will introduce this method and provide case studies.

Key Learning Objectives:

Learn strategies to rapidly develop hybrid and fully automated experimental workflows
Learn best practices to design and deploy autonomous reaction optimization for chemical synthesis
See case studies for integrating automation into small molecule synthesis programs

Who Should Attend:

Process development and medicinal chemists
Automation scientists and engineers
Scientists involved in high throughput experimentation

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Speakers

Jason Hein
CEO and Co-Founder,
Telescope Innovations

Melissa O'Meara
Forensic Science Consultant,
C&EN Media Group

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