Track every sample's journey in real time
Never lose a sample with sensors, label printers, and barcode scanners tracking every sample's chain of custody in real time, producing audit-ready records.
When lab technicians write down scale readings and type them into a LIMS later, transcription errors are inevitable. Catching and correcting these mistakes requires manual QA review, which extends release cycles and drives up operational costs.
A sample moving between workstations without a digital footprint is a compliance liability. If a sample is misplaced or mislabeled, teams spend weeks reconstructing the paper trail to satisfy ALCOA requirements before an audit or batch release.
Traditional lab execution systems impose a heavy validation burden for every minor workflow update. When changing a simple lab form requires a full validation cycle, process engineers hesitate to make improvements and lean initiatives stall.
Tulip guides lab technicians step by step, captures data directly from instruments, and maintains an unbreakable digital thread for every sample. Our platform integrates with the systems and devices you already use, ensuring complete traceability from accessioning to final analysis.
Guided Sample Handling
A technician follows the same instruction at the bench every time, built from your actual SOP instead of a paper copy taped to the wall. If a result comes back outside spec, the step won't let them move forward until someone looks at it.
Automated Data Capture
A connected scale, pH meter, or bioreactor sends its reading straight into the sample record the moment it's taken. Nobody writes the number down first and types it in later, so there's no gap where a transcription error can creep in.
One Record, Audit Ready
Every scan, reading, and sign-off updates the same record as it happens, and that's the same record that feeds the batch record downstream. Nothing needs to be pulled together after the fact, because it was already there when the sample moved through the last step.
Interrogate Your Sample Data
A quality lead can ask what's still pending disposition, or which lots hit a deviation this week, in plain language, and get an answer pulled from the lab's own records instead of digging through a spreadsheet first. Someone still reviews the answer before acting on it.
Validate Only What Changes
Tulip comes validated with every long-term support release, documented down to what changed between versions. When your team builds or adjusts a sample workflow, only that app needs a fresh look. The platform underneath it was already validated when it shipped.
Customer stories
See how pharma and biotech companies use Tulip to digitize lab operations, enforce compliance, and accelerate execution.
Burdened by paper records and manual reviews, Organon's IMQ labs sought a faster digital way to meet compliance. Using Tulip apps integrated with LIMS, instruments, and middleware, they automated documentation and improved data integrity across global labs.
"We had very positive feedback from all the lab analysts. They like the system. It's really easy to use. Of course, they don't have to transcribe any data anymore. And it's a self-guiding system."
Jazz Pharmaceuticals set out to digitize manual paper logbooks but quickly uncovered broader process gaps. By redesigning workflows with a composable platform, they achieved faster execution, reduced deviations, and created a scalable model for digital operations.
"Once people saw the logbooks digitally, they immediately started asking what else we could bring in."
Sample management software tracks the lifecycle of laboratory samples from accessioning to final analysis and disposal. In regulated environments like pharmaceutical and biotech, it captures the complete chain of custody, operator actions, and instrument readings to ensure data integrity. Instead of relying on manual transcription or paper logs, sample management software provides a digital thread that supports batch release and regulatory audits.
Tulip connects to Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), QMS, and ERP platforms using open REST APIs and SQL database connectors. You can pull sample test requirements into a Tulip app to guide the technician, and push the final, verified instrument readings back to the LIMS. This keeps your LIMS as the system of record while Tulip handles the physical execution and data collection at the bench.
Tulip supports a risk-based Computer Software Assurance (CSA) approach, separating environments into Development, Validation, and Production. You validate specific apps and workflows based on their intended use rather than revalidating the entire platform for every minor change. Tulip provides IQ/OQ/PQ documentation to support your validation process.
Tulip connects to both modern and legacy equipment through Edge Devices and the Node-RED protocol builder. We support direct serial connections, USB, and common protocols like OPC UA. If an older lab balance or pH meter can output a digital signal, Tulip can capture that data directly into a workflow, eliminating the need for technicians to write values down.
Process engineers, QA specialists, and lab managers build workflows in Tulip using a visual, drag-and-drop interface. You don't need to write code to create apps, add logic, or connect barcode scanners. IT maintains governance over user roles, permissions, and system architecture, while the lab team owns the daily process improvements.
Tulip apps run in a browser-based Player or native mobile application on iOS, Android, and Windows devices. Technicians can use tablets or smartphones to scan sample barcodes, capture photos of anomalies, and execute workflows while moving between different lab stations or cleanrooms.
See how life sciences manufacturers track samples, connect instruments, and enforce compliance at the bench.