System comprising at least two laboratory instruments for instrument-controlled handling of a partial problem in a treatment process containing treatments of at least one laboratory sample, laboratory instrument and method

A laboratory instrument for the instrument-controlled treatment of a partial problem in a treatment process for handling at least one laboratory sample, which treatment process relates to the handling of a problem comprising partial problems when handling the at least one laboratory sample using the laboratory instrument and at least one further laboratory instrument, the laboratory instrument being configured to establish a direct data connection to the further laboratory instrument, the laboratory instrument and the further laboratory instrument being selected from the group of laboratory instruments including at least a centrifuge, a thermocycler, a biospectrometer, a cell counter, an incubator, a laboratory shaker, a laboratory mixer, a laboratory freezer, a bioreactor, a safety work bench, a biological safety cabinet, a sample plate reader, and a laboratory machine for treating fluid samples,

• the laboratory instrument comprising:
• a treatment apparatus for an instrument-controlled handling of the partial problem requiring consumables,
• a control apparatus for controlling the laboratory instrument,
• at least one interface apparatus for establishing at least one data connection to at least one further laboratory instrument;
• wherein the control apparatus comprises a control program and is configured and programmed:
• to receive first treatment data, which can be used for handling the partial problem, via the at least one interface apparatus and
• to perform a control of the handling of the partial problem using said first treatment data,
• to generate at least one data record during the handling of the partial problem, which data record contains information about a performance of the treatment in accordance with a first partial problem, said data record containing consumable material-related data and to output said data record containing consumable material-related data as second treatment data as a function of the handling of the partial problem, which the second treatment data can be used by the further laboratory instrument for handling a further partial problem of the treatment process,
• to forward the first treatment data and to merge the first treatment data with the second treatment data, and
• to output at least further treatment data containing the first and second treatment data for use by the further laboratory instrument via the at least one interface apparatus by establishing a direct data connection between the interface apparatus of the first laboratory instrument and the interface apparatus of the further laboratory instrument within a restricted network of an intranet, the direct data connection meaning that the further treatment data are transferred from the laboratory instrument to the further laboratory instrument without being processed by an interconnected data processing instrument being the control apparatus of a laboratory instrument.