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，以确定它们是什么。一系列复杂的智能仪器可以完成这项工作。这是一个大约1000亿美元的全球市场。仪器（通常成本为3万至10万英镑）由运行在专用PC上的专有软件控制。全球有数百万个这样的系统。它们产生数值结果（例如，锌浓度为4.6）。通常是自动化的，每一个都可以每天产生数百/数千个结果。根据所测量的内容，他们使用不同的技术（例如光谱），通过它来划分市场。仪器软件在生成结果方面是有效的，但它并没有针对实验室环境中的最大操作效率进行优化。通过领先的技术创新，关键使用所谓的软件代理（协作执行某些任务的自主软件系统的集合），30年的全球领域专业知识和一种新颖的方法，我们将最大限度地提高仪器效率。原型软件Instrument PCEssentials（IPCE），它将：·使新仪器更快投入使用，具有更高的持续可用性和吞吐量·以更低的成本和更好的质量产生结果，并更快地将其提供给实验室的客户目标是让供应商在仪器PC上预装IPCE。因此，软件必须：·足够低的成本，以最小限度地影响最终用户仪器价格·”开箱即用“工作·对实验室用户的好处非常引人注目，它将竞争平衡转移到使用它的仪器上使用IPCE的节省是这样的，对于大多数人来说，它将：·在其生命周期内为自己和仪器支付费用·提供非常重要的质量、速度和可用性好处IPCE技术将通过为用户提供巨大的优势来改变供应商的竞争格局。这将对每年1000亿美元的收入产生破坏性影响市场。

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.