Life Sciences & Healthcare vertical
Asset and material traceability for life sciences and healthcare
Biotech, pharma, med-tech, research labs and hospitals answer to auditors for every instrument, material lot and person in a controlled area. InThing keeps lab instruments calibrated and findable, raw materials and consumables traceable, and clean-room presence on the record.
Industry problems
In regulated work, supply integrity is compliance integrity.
Calibration-critical instruments must be in tolerance and findable. Raw materials need chain of custody, FDA traceability and lot and batch recall readiness. Research consumables, clinical trial logistics and cold-chain materials must be audit-ready.
Yet scientists still wait for raw materials after hours because issuing depends on warehouse staff and paper forms, and the ERP record lags the shelf. Records of who entered the clean room are reconstructed after the fact.
Lab instruments
R&D instruments, calibration-critical equipment, surgical instruments and sterilization tracking.
Raw materials
Diagnostics raw materials with chain of custody and lot and batch recall readiness.
Consumables
Research consumables and cold-chain materials in audit-ready inventory.
People
Clean-room gowning compliance, sterile-zone dwell and two-person rules.
Use cases
What labs and healthcare facilities track with InThing.
Each use case page explains the outcomes, workflows, technology fit and proof in detail.
Capital assets & equipment
Lab instruments, IT and data-center hardware, fixed assets and voting equipment: found in seconds, audited in minutes.
Employees
Operators, lab technicians, pickers and hospital staff: presence, mustering and safety zones, with productivity measured in aggregate.
Goods & consumables
Finished goods, kanban and MRO consumables, lab supplies and consigned stock, counted without walking the aisles.
Parts & raw materials
Chemicals, components, drums, rolls and heavy parts: received, issued and traced to the lot, around the clock.
How InThing applies
Traceability across instruments, materials and people.
Maintenance & calibration
Calibration due dates and service history tied to each instrument.
InVault workflow
Asset audits & compliance
End-to-end audit trails and chain of custody for regulated assets.
InVault workflow
Production material planning
Controlled 24/7 raw-material issuance, synchronized with SAP.
InFlow workflow
Stock & cycle counts
Every withdrawal recorded as it happens, so inventory matches the shelf.
InFlow workflow
Occupancy monitoring
Who is in the clean room right now, with signed entry and dwell records.
InStep workflow
Use case in practice
Raw materials, available after hours.
Cepheid
Scientists and chemists in the molecular diagnostics leader’s 18 R&D labs needed raw materials outside warehouse hours. InFlow’s RFID Grab-N-Go system now gives authorized staff secure 24/7 access, captures who took which material and when, and sends each movement to SAP without warehouse staff completing every step.
In less than a year, our productivity savings skyrocketed — by over 1,000%!
Tom Healy, Director, Logistics Technology and Projects, Cepheid
1,000%+productivity gain across 18 R&D labs
28,000manual touchpoints eliminated annually
10,000material transfer forms eliminated each year
2,300labor hours saved in 9 months
Compliance & integration
Built for audit readiness.
- FDA traceability
- Raw-material chain of custody and lot and batch recall readiness
- GxP & 21 CFR Part 11
- Audit-ready trails for instruments, inventory and every operator in a workflow
- HIPAA
- InStep healthcare workflows designed HIPAA-ready
- Location evidence
- Every location event timestamped and signed: chain of custody for clean rooms and patient rooms
- Systems of record
- SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow and IBM Maximo through EAI-Bridge
- Staff privacy
- InStep is aggregate by default, with role-based access and retention controls. See workforce privacy
- InThing security
- SOC 2 Type 1 report (2023), available under NDA. See Security & trust
Needs confirmation: inthing.io says ‘ready’ only; no GxP, 21 CFR Part 11 or HIPAA certification or validation is claimed. Confirm before adding any.
Traceability you can show an auditor
Bring your hardest regulated workflow.
Calibration-critical instruments, raw-material lots or clean-room presence. We’ll show the right technology and the audit trail that comes with it.