‘Isolator technology and the Isolator philosophy have the potential to fundamentally revolutionise the life science and pharmaceutical industry and offer almost unlimited development and innovation potential ...’ (Josef Ortner). The production of pharmaceuticals or the handling of critical materials in encapsulated, fully automated, digitalised, safe systems, equipped with all possible metrological systems and decontamination processes - this is the version offered by isolator technology. A high degree of automation with fully monitored process steps, short cleaning processes and safe decontamination procedures is already largely state of the art today and is just waiting for market-driven standardisation.