Pharma Research Automation by Connecting Researchers with Robots and Systems

Explore how business process modeling and automation revolutionize pharmaceutical research in this 30-minute conference talk from CamundaCon 2019. Discover the challenges of drug discovery, including finding effective and safe molecules suitable for large-scale production. Learn how Roche leverages process orchestration to integrate heterogeneous software systems, lab equipment, and robotic systems in their research workflows. Gain insights into automating end-to-end processes that combine individual research methods, increasing throughput, transparency, standardization, and time-to-results. Understand the architecture and implementation of a flexible research environment that empowers researchers while streamlining complex operations across decision points, backend systems, and robots.

Introduction
Why Automation
Challenges
Lab Environment
Drug Discovery
Lead Identification
Functional assays
Business process model
Base capabilities
Vision
Architecture
Devices
Robots
Implementation
Example
Data wrangling
Data transformation broker
Data exchange
Platform
Distributed Processes
Platform Content
Conclusion