Game changing software for Analytical Instruments: Real impact in a $100bn pa market.

分析实验室（实验室）测试样品以确定其中的成分。各种复杂的智能仪器可以完成这项工作。这是一个每年约1000亿美元的全球市场。仪器（通常成本为30 -10万英镑）由运行在附加的专用pc上的专有软件控制。全球有数百万这样的系统。它们产生数值结果（例如锌浓度为4.6）。通常是自动化的，每个系统每天生成成百上千个结果。根据测量对象的不同，他们使用不同的技术（如光谱学）来细分市场。仪器软件在生成结果方面是有效的，但在实验室环境中，它没有优化到最高的操作效率。通过领先的技术创新，对所谓的软件代理（协作执行某些任务的自主软件系统集合）的关键使用，30年的全球领域专业知识和新方法，我们将最大限度地提高仪器效率。该提案旨在创建彻底设计的原型软件，即仪器PCEssentials (IPCE)，该软件将：•以更高的持续可用性和吞吐量更快地将新仪器投入使用•以极低的成本产生结果，质量更好，并更快地将其提供给实验室的客户。因此，该软件必须：•成本足够低，对最终用户仪器价格的影响最小•“开箱即用”•对实验室用户的好处如此引人注目，以至于它将竞争平衡转向使用它的仪器。使用IPCE的节省是这样的，对大多数人来说，它将：•为自己和仪器的生命周期买单•提供高度显著的质量，通过为用户提供巨大的优势，sipce技术将改变供应商的竞争格局。它将在年化规模达1000亿美元的市场中带来颠覆性影响。

Analytical laboratories (Labs) test samples to determine what is in them. A wide range ofsophisticated Intelligent Instruments do this work. It is ~ $100bn pa global market.Instruments (typical cost £30k-100k) are controlled by proprietary software running onattached, dedicated PCs. There are millions of such systems globally. They produce numericalresults (e.g. Zinc concentration is 4.6). Usually automated, each generates hundreds/thousandsof results/day. Depending on what is being measured, they use different techniques (e.g.spectroscopy) by which the market is segmented.Instrument software is effective at generating results, but it is not optimized for maximumoperational efficiency in the Lab environment.Through leading edge technical innovation, critical use of what are known as software agents(collections of autonomous software systems that collaborate to perform some task), 30 yearsof global domain expertise and a novel approach, we will maximize instrument efficiency.This proposal is for the creation of radically designed, prototype software, Instrument PCEssentials (IPCE), that will:• Get a new instrument into service faster with higher ongoing availability andthroughput• Produce results at dramatically lower costs, with better quality and get them to theLab’s customers quickerThe aim is for Vendors to ship IPCE preinstalled on instrument PCs. So the software must:• Be of low enough cost to effect minimally the end user instrument price• Work “straight out of the box”• Be so compelling in its benefits to Lab users, that it shifts the competitive balancetowards instruments that use itSavings from using IPCE are such that for most it would:• pay for itself AND the instrument in its lifetime• provide highly significant quality, speed and usability benefitsIPCE technology will shift the competitive landscape for Vendors through providing hugeadvantages to their users. It will be disruptive in a $100bn p.a. marketplace.