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IUTA Workshop: Data Standard meets Communication Standard

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 in Duisburg

Communication and data standards for laboratory and analytical applications are two sides of the same coin: communication standards capture live data generated during experiments and result creation, while data standards document the results along with critical context—such as who conducted the experiment, when, with what materials, and using which methods. Ideally, both should be built on shared definitions of entities and information elements. For the first time, the combination of OPC UA LADS and Allotrope Foundation framework enables seamless integration between communication and documented data. Ontologies like the Allotrope Foundation Ontology (AFO) provide the conceptual foundation necessary to achieve true FAIR data across laboratory environments.

Program

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09:30 AM
Registration

10:00 AM
Challanges for generic and agnostic data access, management and processing

Gerrit Renner, University of Duisburg-Essen
Ricardo Cunha, IUTA e. V.

10:35 AM
What is LADS OPC-UA?
Matthias Schuh, essentim GmbH

11:05 AM
Coffee Break

11:20 PM
What is an Allotrope Data Standard?
Matthias Mailänder, Lablicate GmbH

12:05 PM
Lunch

13:00 PM
Enabling LADS OPC-UA in laboratory devices
Maximilian Wiens, Wiens Synefex GmbH

13:25 PM
Data standardization in LADS OPC-UA via Allotrope Simple Model
Heiko Fessenmayr, Agilent Technologies GmbH

13:45 PM
Coffee break

14:00 PM
Bridging laboratory systems with LADS OPC-UA: LES, ELN, and LIMS integration
Julian Lübke, labforward GmbH

14:25 PM
OpenChrom: interoperability and FAIRness in data analysis
Philip Wenig, Lablicate GmbH

14:45 PM
Coffee break

15:00 PM
Relevance of LADS OPC-UA and Allotrope Data Standards for research and industry users with roundtable discussion
Ricardo Cunha, IUTA e. V.

16:00 PM

End

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