Equipment Utilization, CapEx Decisions, and Hidden Capacity: What 12 Million Equipment Bookings Reveal About R&D Lab Operations
9:30 am - Thursday 13th August 2026
- In this session, we’ll look under the hood of more than 12 million equipment bookings across thousands of R&D labs, revealing how equipment utilisation really works in practice
- We’ll explore the gap between perceived and actual demand, how capacity is obscured when bookings lack ownership, and why many CapEx decisions are made with incomplete or misleading signals
- Using real-world patterns from enterprise R&D labs, we’ll show how booking data becomes a critical input for understanding utilisation and avoiding unnecessary purchases
