LADS, an acronym for Laboratory and Analytical Device Standard, is a manufacturer-independent, open standard for analytical and laboratory equipment. It comprehensively encapsulates various customer industries and their respective workflows, providing a sustainable application that also caters to the future demands of digitalization and automation. LADS is built upon OPC UA, an open communication platform developed and promoted by the international non-profit OPC Foundation. OPC UA facilitates cross-vendor communication and interoperability in industrial automation processes.

The benefits of the LADS standard are listed below:

Manufacturer-independent standard

Open standard, capable of integrating instruments in different workflows

Plug and play interoperability of Lab and Analytical Devices

Covers a wide range of different Lab and Analytical devices through device-type-agnostic design principles

Future versions may allow machine-readable semantic contextualization of LADS patterns by linking nodes within the information model to suitable taxonomies and ontologies (utilizing Dictionary References OPC 10000-19)