Peak Analysis & Automation (PAA) transforms life science laboratories with advanced automation solutions that boost throughput, accuracy, and reproducibility.
PAA designs and integrates end-to-end automation systems for life science laboratories combining robotics, software, and engineering expertise into modular solutions that deliver real operational impact.
From simple workflow automation to fully integrated solutions, PAA helps labs move faster, work smarter, and operate with confidence.
Peak Analysis & Automation (PAA) is a laboratory automation integrator built by engineers and scientists who understand the realities of modern labs. With nearly three decades of experience, PAA partners with research, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and academic organizations to design modular automation solutions that solve complex workflow challenges, from sample preparation through fully orchestrated, multi-instrument systems.
In 2025, Grenova, a leader in sustainable laboratory solutions, acquired certain assets of Peak Analysis & Automation. This strategic move brought PAA into the Grenova organization and expanded the combined ability to deliver automation-ready, future-proof laboratory solutions.
As sister companies, PAA and Grenova now offer a differentiated portfolio of software, hardware, and integration services, with a shared focus on modular automation, scalability, and long-term laboratory performance.
Decades of Automation Expertise
Built on nearly 30 years of experience designing, integrating, and deploying laboratory automation systems.
Proven in Real Labs
Trusted by global leaders across biotech, pharma, and academic research environments.
Modular & Scalable by Design
Solutions engineered to evolve from single-process automation to fully integrated workflows.
Vendor-Agnostic Integration
Designs that prioritize the best solution for your workflow, not a preferred instrument brand.
Science-Driven Workflows
Automation tailored to your laboratory processes, enabling precise orchestration, repeatability, and performance tracking through advanced scheduling and control software.
Modular, scalable workcells from simple one-to-two instrument integrations to fully bespoke, end-to-end automated laboratory systems, ready to expand as throughput demands grow.
A fully mobile, modular automation platform that lets you move instrumentation exactly where it’s needed, when it’s needed, without rebuilding your workcell.
Intuitive scheduling software that coordinates instruments and robotics, enabling repeatable, optimized workflows with full operational visibility.
Comprehensive control software that integrates instruments and robotics across systems, enabling event-driven and time-based scheduling for efficient, constraint-aware workflows.
Laboratories across life science, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and diagnostics are under increasing pressure to deliver higher throughput, greater reproducibility, and faster results.
PAA designs and integrates laboratory automation solutions that streamline critical workflows from targeted process automation to fully integrated robotic systems. Our application-specific solutions support a wide range of disciplines built around your existing instruments and tailored to your scientific goals.
Scalable Automation for Complex, Sterile Cell Workflows
Modern cell biology demands reproducibility, sterility, and speed across increasingly complex workflows. Manual processes introduce variability, contamination risk, and labor constraints that limit scale. PAA delivers integrated automation that enables consistent, high-throughput cell biology workflows without sacrificing experimental flexibility.
Safe, Integrated Solutions
PAA’s S-CEL enclosed workcells automate critical cell biology steps while maintaining biosafety and environmental control. From routine assays to advanced cell line development, systems are configured around your workflow and existing instruments.
Key capabilities include:
Flexible Automation to Accelerate Discovery
Drug discovery workflows must evolve rapidly, often running multiple chemistries, assays, and screening methods in parallel. Rigid automation slows innovation and limits adaptability.
PAA enables flexible, software-driven automation that scales with discovery programs and supports rapid workflow changes.
End-to-End, Software-Orchestrated Platforms
With 400+ instrument drivers, S-RUN scheduling software, and decades of integration expertise, PAA delivers vendor-neutral discovery platforms from single-process automation to fully integrated screening workcells.
Automation supports:
Consistency and Throughput for Complex Genomic Workflows
Genomics workflows involve multiple interdependent steps, each with the potential to create bottlenecks or introduce variability. Maintaining reproducibility is essential as throughput increases. PAA automation ensures genomic workflows remain efficient, traceable, and reliable from preparation through analysis.
Modular Automation with Broad Instrument Compatibility
PAA links modular genomic instruments into cohesive workflows, controlled via onboard intelligence or external scheduling software (S-RUN).
Supports integration across:
Automation Built for Accuracy, Speed, and Reliability
Diagnostic workflows demand absolute consistency, fast turnaround times, and minimal variability, often under tight regulatory and operational constraints. PAA delivers automation solutions that support reliable, repeatable diagnostic testing at scale.
Vendor-Neutral, Scalable Diagnostic Platforms
PAA integrates robotics, plate handling, and control software to automate diagnostic workflows while maintaining flexibility across instruments and assays.
Automation enables:
Reliable Automation for High-Volume Sample Handling
As sample volumes increase, manual handling introduces errors, delays, and traceability gaps. Efficient sample management is critical to maintaining data integrity and throughput. PAA automates sample movement, tracking, and processing to ensure consistency across high-volume laboratory operations.
Intelligent Handling with Full Traceability
Using proprietary automated plate handlers, Smart Carts, and scheduling software (S-RUN), PAA connects sample storage, preparation, and analysis into a single coordinated workflow.
Benefits include:
Scalable, Reproducible Chemical Automation
As chemical workflows increase in scale and precision, manual processing becomes a limiting factor. PAA delivers integrated automation for high-throughput chemical analysis, reducing hands-on effort while improving consistency, safety, and data quality. Our S-CEL controlled environment workcell automates critical steps across sample preparation, processing, and analytical handoff, supporting repeatable results without compromising flexibility.
Vendor-Neutral Automation Built Around Your Workflow
S-CEL is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing laboratory instrumentation, including LC-MS, GC-MS, HPLC, ICP-MS, and Rheometry, enabling automation without equipment replacement. By combining advanced engineering, vendor-neutral integration, and modular design, PAA helps chemistry labs:
Tell us about your workflow, challenge, or idea. Our team will help you explore the right automation approach from concept through implementation.