A BPM-based approach of human task support within life science automation

The article addresses the potential of model-driven workflow automation that allows new kinds of human system interaction. A control of the end-to-end process includes the seamless control of human tasks in conjunction with distributed automation solutions in addition to the simplified application-technical system integration. The human task support for applications in the life science automation increases significant the efficiency in the execution of experiments, serves to reduce stress for involved employees, and provides important contributions to the improvement of the quality management in the research. Mobile devices assist interesting opportunities for notifications and provision of information. The presented approach takes up the standard BPMN 2.0 published in 2011 as the graphical modeling and automation language for any business processes.