🚀 Your lab, now with a built-in AI team.
LabCollector 6.32 is one of our most significant releases yet. It brings a new generation of built-in AI assistants to your fingertips, introduces a live operations Dashboard, launches the next-generation POMv2 procurement experience, and modernizes how you manage storage, alerts, and compliance — all while raising the bar on security, stability, and performance.
🤖 Meet Your New AI Lab Assistants
AI is now woven directly into LabCollector, allowing users to work with powerful assistance without leaving their laboratory environment.
- 🔍 SmartSearch — Ask questions in natural language and receive fast, semantic, meaning-aware results across your records.
- 🧑🔬 Co-Scientist RAG/AI-indexing reasoning over your lab data (via the Co-Scientist add-on, ex–Advanced Search).
- ☁️ Azure OpenAI Support — Organizations can now leverage Azure OpenAI as a trusted AI provider.
- ⚗️ Enhanced Scientific Search — Improved Smart Search engine, expanded MolSearch datasets, and updated molecule editor.
📊 New Real-Time Dashboard
The all-new Dashboard provides immediate visibility into laboratory operations through:
- 📈 Real-time inventory statistics.
- ⚠️ Overview of critical risks and alerts.
- 🧩 Status cards for every installed add-on.
- 🏠 Access from both the Home page and Tools menu.
- ⚙️ Administrator-controlled activation.
- 🌍 Full multilingual support.
🛒 POMv2 — Procurement Reimagined
The next generation of Purchase Order Management introduces a streamlined procurement experience with:
- 📝 Modernized ordering workflows.
- 🔗 ERP Fullstep integration.
- 👥 Enhanced group-based permission management.
- 🔔 Smarter alerts respecting user and group permissions.
📦 Smarter Storage Management
- 🗄️ BoxGrid v2 — A redesigned storage workbench.
- 📐 Flexible Box Layouts — Support for boxes without fixed row letters or column numbering.
🧪 Chemicals Storage Zones
- 💡 Integrated contextual help.
- 📍 New “No Location” zone.
- 📦 Improved Total Stock visibility.
- ✅ Automatic stock counting.
🏭 Storage Administration Improvements
- 🎨 Color-coded storage equipment.
- 📊 File and database storage statistics.
- ⚠️ Risk indicators linked to equipment.
🔔 Alerts & Notifications
The new Alerts & Notifications engine becomes significantly more targeted and flexible.
- 👥 Filter by user group.
- 👤 Notify record owners directly.
- 📢 Broadcast notifications to all users.
- 🛡️ Support for Staff, Staff+, and Group Administrators.
🛡️ Safety, Compliance & Quality Enhancements
- ☣️ HMIS Hazard Classification added alongside GHS and NFPA.
- 🚫 Prevention of duplicate records based on CAS numbers.
- 🔎 Multi-category Risk & Safety filtering.
- 📅 Automatic lot expiration management.
🧾 Recipes Improvements
- ✅ New GxP-compliant operation mode.
- 🔗 Automatic Homemade Seller linking.
- 📄 Usage logs automatically saved to Documents.
- 📉 Project-code-driven component destocking.
⚡ Workflow & Data Management Enhancements
- 🏷️ Sample Types as custom-field categories.
- ✏️ Inline editing of category sub-fields.
- ⚙️ Conditional custom fields on add-ons.
- 📥 Default values during imports.
- 🧬 New NCBI autocomplete sources for Worms & Fungi.
- 📠 ThermoFisher VisionMate rack scanner support.
- 🧪 Straw importing support for Visiotube.
🔒 Security, Stability & Performance
- 🛡️ Multiple security hardening updates.
- 🔐 Stronger Content Security Policy protection.
- 📄 Barcode PDF dependency fixes.
- 🚫 Protection against path traversal attacks.
- 🔑 Improved LDAP/SSO options and sign-in diagnostics.
- ⚡ Faster chemical searches and exports.
- ⏱️ Better performance across key workflows.
- 🌐 Improved offline behavior when internet access is unavailable.
🎉 Upgrade Today
Upgrade to LabCollector 6.32 and put an entire team of AI-powered laboratory assistants to work. With smarter search, intelligent reasoning, real-time operational visibility, modernized procurement, enhanced storage management, and stronger security controls, this release delivers one of the most comprehensive platform upgrades to date.
ℹ️ Note: AI indexing, RAG require the Co-Scientist add-on.