As the world’s premier measurement company, Agilent works in close collaboration with engineers, scientists, and researchers around the globe to meet the communications, electronics, life sciences, and chemical analysis challenges of today and tomorrow. The company operates two primary businesses -- electronic and bio-analytical measurement -- supported by Agilent Research Laboratories, its central research group. Agilent is committed to providing innovative measurement solutions that enable our customers and partners-- the leaders in their fields -- to deliver the products and services that make a measurable difference in the lives of people everywhere. With a singular focus on measurement, Agilent helps:
- Test more than half of the world’s 1.3 billion cell phones
- Equip more than 200 communications service providers
- Analyze the causes and cures for disease
- Advance next-generation integrated voice, video and data
- Enable the military to be more flexible, mobile and reliable
- Make the world more safe and secure from crime and drugs
- Aid the discovery and quality of medicines
- Keep our air, water, soil and food clean and safe
Agilent's electronic measurement business provides standard and customized electronic measurement instruments and systems, monitoring, management and optimization tools for communications networks and services, software design tools and related services that are used in the design, development, manufacture, installation, deployment and operation of electronics equipment and communications networks and services.
Agilent's bio-analytical measurement business provides application-focused solutions that include instruments, software, consumables and services that enable customers to identify, quantify and analyze the physical and biological properties of substances and products.
The purpose of Agilent Research Laboratories is to power the growth of Agilent Technologies through breakthrough science and technology. Agilent Research Laboratories create competitive advantage through high-impact technology, driving market leadership and growth in Agilent’s core businesses and expanding Agilent’s measurement footprint into adjacent markets. At the cross-roads of the organization, the Labs are able to identify and enable synergies across Agilent’s businesses to create competitive differentiation and compelling customer value.
The Research Laboratories include 1) Agilent Labs, which focuses on Agilent’s highest growth priority, bio-analytical measurement, and 2) the Measurement Research Lab, which is part of the Electronic Measurement Group's Technology Leadership Organization and focuses on technologies that support growth in electronic measurement. The majority of the Labs research is located in the United States in Santa Clara, Calif., with additional locations in Europe (Leuven, Belgium; and South Queensferry, Scotland) and in Asia (Beijing, China).
Fundamental strengths of the Research Labs include deep technical expertise, a strong base of technology disciplines, a core competence in transferring technologies to Agilent's businesses, and employees who enjoy the richness of a broad, world-class science and engineering environment.