Synergence™
OEM system development

Realize your potential for long-term growth

Facing challenges of your in-house IVD systems engineering? Striking the right balance between allocating a significant amount of resources, reducing system lifetime costs, and bringing your solution to market ahead of the competition can be daunting.

Synergence, as your strategic growth partner, can help you overcome these challenges. Our proactive approach to anticipate future market dynamics and understand distinctive assay requirements, enables us to accelerate your innovation journey and support you in swiftly capturing market opportunities.

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Your strategic partner for business growth

Scale at speed with quality and compliance assured

With a proven track record of agility and accuracy, we help our customers rapidly expand into high-growth markets with reduced risk. Our extensive application portfolios ensure that we bring solutions to market with the highest standards of product quality, leveraging over 40 years of experience.

Reduce your instruments lifetime costs

Time to market and on-market maintenance are crucial factors in total cost of ownership of an instrument. Our disciplined development process allows us to optimize development costs and time to market. Our smart digital tools facilitate efficient on-market maintenance, including remote software deployment and remote servicing – delivering additional financial value.

Benefit from unparalleled industry expertise

Close collaboration with customers from life science to the clinic allows Tecan to gain a unique and unparalleled view of market trends and enables us to effectively anticipate and adapt to what is coming next.

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Business consulting & requirements engineering

How we can help:

Determine your exact technical needs
Help you to find the right business model for success
Provide expert OEM systems engineering to match your project requirements and budget

Your benefits:

40 years of experience in manufacturing IVD automation devices
Knowhow from our end-user business
Experts with a deep understanding of cellular and molecular biology
Deep understanding of regulatory processes

Innovative concepts

How we can help:

Innovative concepts from scratch
Unique solutions using our wealth of technologies

Your benefits:

Multidisciplinary teams covering biology, chemistry and physics, as well as software, systems engineering and user experience
Rapid production of design concepts
Our understanding of the bigger picture, considering functionality, usability, reliability, serviceability and total cost of ownership

Efficient solution development

How we can help:

Reducing time to market through a modular development approach
Rapid design and prototyping
Minimizing project risks through agile development methods

Your benefits:

Accelerated application development and system testing due to our modular hardware and software solutions
Advanced visualization and virtualization techniques, such as 3D simulation
Very close and transparent collaboration with our partners

High-quality manufacturing

How we can help:

Highest quality standards guaranteed through rigorous quality control procedures
Reproducible performance and completeness for the end-user
Efficiency through continuously improved processes

Your benefits:

Smooth transition from instrument development to production, due to close links between R&D and Operations
Flexible production capacity to meet customers' needs, through continual investments in quality and production systems

Professional service & support

How we can help:

Provide training to customers' teams and share knowhow
Spare parts supply
Expert support

Your benefits:

40 years of experience in servicing and supporting our own systems
Maximum instrument uptime, due to our principles of reliability and usability
Service and support throughout the entire lifecycle of a system, starting from the beginning of the design process

Expert regulatory support

How we can help:

Development of a robust regulatory strategy
Quality engineers assigned to every project
Close collaboration from the outset to understand regulatory requirements

Your benefits:

Proactive approach to handling regulatory needs
Global network of quality and regulatory experts
Local representatives in most major markets, including Europe, US, China, Japan, etc.
Extensive experience

Lifecycle management basic

How we can help:

Close collaboration during the defining, development and commercialization phases of a product
Receive the right product, at the right quality, in the right quantity, at the right time and at the right price

Your benefits:

Bespoke solutions developed through our understanding of the day-to-day challenges faced by laboratories
Continued partnership after product launch, to ensure supply security and obsolescence management

Tecan training & consulting

How we can help:

Variety of training on regulatory matters
Product training sessions
Consultancy services to support moving products from research to IVD

Your benefits:

Highly experienced experts from a broad mix of backgrounds and geographical locations
40 years of experience in OEM lab automation and transferring instruments from research to clinical diagnostics.

Customized on-market services

How we can help:

Field service, including installation, preventive maintenance and system repairs
Remote service, including remote support and remote monitoring
In-house service from our repair centers, including refurbishment of individual components or entire systems

Your benefits:

Pick and choose the services you need
Scalable and flexible service organization to support individual needs
40 years of experience in servicing lab automation solutions

Lifecycle management enhanced

How we can help:

Additional support and access to our comprehensive knowhow and capabilities throughout the product life cycle
Proactive approach to make your products shine in a competitive environment
Creation of lifecycle management maps addressing all external factors such as industry trends and changes in regulations

Your benefits:

Strategic and long-term partnerships that go beyond just a transactional relationship
Use our knowhow and capabilities as a lab automation supplier to outperform competition together

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Customer Solution Development Manager Marianne Angst-Helbling explains the Tecan Synergence offering in more detail, and underlines what makes the service one of a kind.

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Project Leader Gérard Harbach explains how Tecan approaches innovative concept production, and why this is unique.

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Christoph Karthaus, VP of R&D Instruments and Systems Integration, explains how we bring instruments to market fast, and what makes us different from the rest.

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Head of Operations, Andreas Pfleiderer, explains how we manufacture instruments to the highest quality standards, and what sets us apart from other OEMs.

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Global Head of Service & Aftersales, Petra Popp, explains how we guarantee maximum uptime of our instruments, and what makes this service unique.

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VP Quality and Regulatory, Günter Weisshaar, explains how Tecan supports is customers in their regulatory needs and what makes our service unique.

Shape the collaboration

Understanding of the business model, needs, constraints and applications
Design input (concept, feasibility, breadboards)
Definition of service concept, regulatory requirements and business processes

Value generation readiness

Cooperation on all product and commercial matters
Design output (development and verification, industrialization, prototypes and 0-series)
Implementation of service concept, documentation to fulfil regulations and end-to-end business process

Establish, grow and maximize value

Cooperation on all product and commercial matters
Lifecycle management, including product supply, obsolescence planning and change management

Sustain and maintain value

Cooperation on maintaining installed base
Lifecycle management, including product supply, obsolescence planning and change management

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Head Customer Operations, Micaela Wochner, explains how she and her team support our customers throughout the whole lifecycle of a product and why this service is unique.

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VP Quality and Regulatory, Günter Weisshaar, explains how he and his team can complement customers’ internal knowhow with Tecan's 40 years of expertise in bringing products to market in IVD.

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Global Head of Service and Aftersales, Petra Popp, explains how our on-market services can be tailored to our partners' exact needs.

Shape the collaboration:

Understanding of the business strategy and alignment on strategic business and product matters
Refinement of concept
Strategic consulting looking at service concept, regulatory strategy and end-to-end value chain

Value generation readiness:

Strategic alignment on product to be launched
Enhanced development services, including system integration, extended verification, reliability test
Implementation of service strategy, regulatory strategy and business processes, like Kaizen or e-commerce

Establish, grow and maximize value:

Alignment on long-term business and product strategy, and definition of implementation tactics
Lifecycle management, including continuous improvements of the product, and compliance and commercial viability in changing environments
Execute evaluation of non-warranty issues, product compliance updates and business process optimizations

Sustain and maintain value:

Continued strategic alignment and strategy implementation
Implementation of next generation product for continued growth

Listen to the OEM expert

Head of Customer Operations, Micaela Wochner, explains what a strategic collaboration beyond a simply transactional relationship looks like.

General Manager from Thermo Fisher said:
Most importantly, Tecan was the only company to approach us with a true spirit of partnership that would help us meet the challenges we were facing.
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Proven technologies

Depending on what our customers are looking for in their OEM lab automation solution, Tecan’s strong life sciences business, with direct connection to end-users, gives us a huge advantage. With 40 years of experience, we know the needs of the end-users.

OEM systems engineering based on our modular toolbox

Using our flexible, modular hardware and software portfolio brings various advantages to system development projects:

Ease of integration of proven Tecan technologies reduces the technical and overall project risk
Simplification of verification and validation accelerates time to market
Increased cost efficiency through faster delivery of the development project
Fast software development through modular software architecture (MAPlinx software)

OEM system developments from scratch

Assays may need customized automation solutions. Getting a custom OEM solution, developed from scratch, brings various advantages to customers:

System designed and manufactured to meet exact assay needs
Our end-user business is at the forefront of technical innovation
Ahead of the regulatory challenge

Discover Tecan’s proven modular portfolio

Cavro^® Magni Flex
Fluent series

Modular OEM software to speed up system development time

MAPlinx™ is Tecan's state-of-the-art modular software architecture which accelerates application software development for OEM systems and components, reducing time to market.

OEM system development for long-term business success

Outsourcing the development of your next lab automation solution to a strategic OEM partner helps you gain agility and allows you to adapt and thrive in the ever-evolving diagnostic landscape.

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In-depth application knowhow for IVD and life science

Familiarity with our customers’ applications is key to the successful automation of assays. Our scientists have expertise in numerous diagnostics and life sciences applications – spanning a range of topics – and we apply that knowledge to match the application needs of our customers exactly.

Genomics
Immunoassays
Mass spectrometry
Histology and cytology

Next generation sequencing
Blood grouping / typing
Biobanking
Hematology

Cell biology
Drug discovery
Forensics
Veterinary and food

Assay development

Developing a menu of high performing reagents takes time. Using our assay development capabilities, we can support our customers’ in-house expertise, ensuring rapid assay integration and the development of complete application-centric menus.