Laminar (Formerly H2Ok Innovations)

What’s Happening in the Laminar (Formerly H2Ok Innovations) Lab Recently 🦃🍂 Happy Thanksgiving! This week, we celebrated a “Worksgiving” with a team potluck; everyone brought dishes, shared stories, and shared laughs. 🥘✨ A huge thank you to the entire team for coming together, not just to enjoy great food, but to keep building smarter, more sustainable solutions that help factories run faster while saving water, energy, and chemicals. Here’s to teamwork, innovation, and a joyful holiday season! 🌍 💧

You’re not optimizing batches — you’re guessing. Every manufacturer is chasing the golden batch. The one where the process runs flawlessly — perfect texture, color, yield. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: most factories don’t actually know what makes a batch “golden.” They’re relying on sampling, intuition, and timers. And every extra sample, every guess, every delayed decision — adds up to lost time, lost product, and lost margin. We’ve seen this firsthand across food and beverage manufacturing. We hear stories like this all the time: A sauce manufacturer ran eight hours of production and forgot to add sucrose to their ketchup. They didn't catch it until the end. The entire batch had to be dumped. And when stories like this compound, the result is batch shrinkage. Hours of unnecessary processing time. Products contaminated, overmixed, or discarded. Variability that quietly chips away at yield. Batch turnover that is too long. That’s the real cost of imperfect batches — it’s not one big loss, it’s a thousand small ones that compound every day. The manufacturers pulling ahead aren’t just automating — they’re closing the loop. With Laminar’s spectral sensors and ML models, we help manufacturers see down to the building components of every perfect batch with spectral fingerprints — viscosity, color, composition, and flow data captured in real time. Our models learn what your golden batch looks like and then monitor, adjust, and alert automatically when it’s ready or drifting off track. No more waiting for lab results. No more guessing. No more waste. The future of manufacturing belongs to those who run perfect batches — every time. 👁️ See your batches in a new light → https://lnkd.in/g4zmjXDK #FoodManufacturing #BatchOptimization #AIinManufacturing #FasterFactory #Laminar

🥽 ✨ Inside the Laminar (Formerly H2Ok Innovations) Lab 🔬 This week, #ClimateTechSummit returned to #GreentownLabs, bringing together the founders, scientists, and builders shaping the future of climate and energy innovation. We had a great time sharing our work at Laminar, where we’re focused on one thing: Giving manufacturers real-time visibility into what’s flowing through their pipes and using that data to run cleaner, faster, and more efficient factories. 🔧 Behind the scenes, our hardware team is pushing the boundaries of spectral sensors + science-led machine learning as they continue to transform liquid manufacturing. The future gets built in the Laminar Lab. #TeamLaminar #FasterFactory

Most factories still can’t see what’s happening inside their pipes. They rely on timers, conductivity, and assumptions — hoping every rinse, changeover, and batch runs as expected. But hope isn’t visibility. Spectroscopy changes that. By analyzing how light interacts with every liquid — water, product, caustic — Laminar’s inline spectral sensors reveal a real-time spectral fingerprint of what’s flowing through the system. That spectral fingerprint becomes the foundation for intelligence that drives closed-loop automation: → Detect exactly when a line is clean — not just when the timer says it should be. → Identify the moment a new product stabilizes during changeover. → Catch mix-ups or contamination before they cost a full batch. Inline spectroscopy changes how factories think and act. As Laminar Hardware Engineer Jens Höfflin explains in his latest technical deep dive, Laminar is redefining what’s possible when light, data, and intelligence converge inside a factory. When light meets AI, visibility becomes control. And control becomes a faster, more efficient, more sustainable factory. Read Jens’s full article below. #Spectroscopy #IndustrialAI #ProcessOptimization #FoodManufacturing #FoodandBev #Laminar #FasterFactory

The age of static manufacturing is over. Earlier this month at PACK EXPO 2025, one thing was clear: AI, closed-loop automation, and sustainability aren’t separate trends anymore — they’re converging. Laminar's Lulu Smith represented us at the show and shared her top takeaways: → AI is moving from data collection to making decisions, delivering transformative, dynamic automation. → Agility is the new competitive edge. → Automation must be adaptive and intelligent, not just faster. → Sustainability must be an ROI driver, not just a CSR line item. The future factory isn’t just faster — it’s smarter, dynamic, and continuously improving itself. Today, Laminar is helping manufacturers bring that future to life. 👇 Read the full event recap from Lulu Smith below. #PACKEXPO #FoodManufacturing #Laminar #FasterFactory

Static changeovers were built for yesterday’s factory.

We're in Chicago at EATS formerly Process Expo! Cassie Orkin and Mercan Ulutas are showing live demos of our spectral sensors and game-changing Insights platform. They'll be talking about faster CIP, smarter changeovers, inline quality monitoring, and closed-loop automation for Food & Beverage and CPG manufacturers. Stop by Booth #1528 (South Building) Oct. 28-30 to see how our science-led AI is helping manufacturers run the best version of their factory every shift. #EATS2025 #FoodManufacturing #FoodandBeverage #FasterFactory #Laminar

Tired of guessing when your CIP cycle is clean enough? Laminar’s science-led AI and patented spectral sensors deliver the perfect CIP, every cycle — saving up to 15% in water, chemicals, and energy while increasing uptime. 👉 See how it works: https://lnkd.in/gDBYNqfH #CleanInPlace #FoodManufacturing #CIPOptimization #FasterFactory