Insights article Ginolis and Quality by Skillsta Establish Partnership to Combine Automation, Life Science, Regulatory, and AI/ML Expertise

21.9.2026Kauko VäinämöCEO
  • Ginolis and Quality by Skillsta are forming a cooperation framework to support joint customer opportunities, specialist advisory work, internal development support, and selected joint projects.
  • The partnership brings together automation, robotics, laboratory knowledge, regulatory awareness, documentation discipline, and AI/ML competence, creating a more complete offer for customers in life science, diagnostics, laboratory automation, and regulated product environments.
  • Customers will gain access to a broader and more integrated competence base, combining automation, robotics, life science domain knowledge, regulatory awareness, documentation discipline, and AI/ML expertise to support better project definition, stronger technical solutions, and more credible delivery in demanding environments.

 

[Oulu, Finland / Sweden, 22.09.2026] Ginolis and Quality by Skillsta) have agreed to establish a partnership focused on strengthening customer offerings in life science automation, regulated product development, quality-oriented engineering, and AI/ML-enabled solutions.

The partnership brings together Ginolis’ automation, robotics, engineering, and product development capabilities with Skillsta’s laboratory, regulatory, documentation, and AI/ML expertise. The aim is to create a practical cooperation model that supports customer opportunities where the combined capabilities of both companies can lead to stronger proposals, improved technical outcomes, and broader project scope.

The cooperation will focus on selected opportunities where the combination of automation and specialist life science expertise creates clear customer value. This may include laboratory automation, diagnostics, medical and life science applications, quality systems, predictive maintenance, AI-supported development, and regulated product environments.

“Customers in life science and regulated industries increasingly need solutions that combine strong automation capability with domain understanding, documentation discipline, and data-driven improvement,” said Kauko Väinämö, CEO of Ginolis. “Through this partnership with Quality by Skillsta, we can strengthen our customer offering and bring complementary expertise into selected opportunities where it can make a real difference.”

The partnership is built around a practical cooperation framework covering opportunity sharing, specialist advisory roles, internal support, joint project work, and joint market activation.

“Quality by Skillsta sees strong potential in combining our life science, regulatory, documentation, and AI/ML competence with Ginolis’ automation and robotics expertise,” said Karl Andersson, CEO. “The value of this partnership is in making the combined offer more complete, credible, and useful for customers who operate in technically demanding and regulated environments.”

The companies also plan to explore joint marketing activities, including customer-facing content, interviews, webinars, white papers, and selected event-related communications. These activities are intended to make the cooperation visible, demonstrate the combined expertise, and create demand for practical customer applications.