Deft (Digital Enabled Formulation Toolset)

Digital Enabled Formulation Toolset (Deft), is a scalable, laboratory digital network product integrating and standardising bench-top instrument comms protocols in chemical formulation and R&D labs. Deft can work as a stand-alone system or as part of an existing LIMS connected infrastructure.
At the heart of the system is the Deft Gateway based on the SiLA2 protocol (Standardisation in Lab Automation), which combines Bluetooth instrument connectivity with Wi-Fi protocol to connect the lab instruments to a secure network.
Aimed at the bench scientist, Deft unobtrusively captures the process data (Industry 4.0 and Big Data compliant) providing the ‘information gap’ when comparing manually made bench formulations and has a host of additional features such as experimental design, workflow control, remote access, and Asset Management worthy of a fully digital Lab-of-the-Future program.