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New with LabVantage 8.4: ASL – Plate to Tube Rack Transfers
“I’ll take ‘Something that has always been elusive in labs’ for 600, Alex.“ “What is ‘Comprehensive LIMS plate processing & transfer?’” Congratulations – you won 600 points. Wait – not so fast! Labs have long sought a complete solution to capture the actual...
Maximizing Connectivity: Complex Instruments
The entire purpose – or at least a primary purpose – of a LIMS is the ability to rely on it as a central repository for ‘all things lab.’ However, the LIMS’ ability to serve as a lab’s informatics hub is only as good as its ability to speak with other instruments and...
Work Assignment and Planning
At this year’s 2018 CTEC conference in San Diego, LabVantage unveiled the Work Assignment & Planning (WAP) module. This session was one of the top 5 sessions at the conference, and one of the top topics of ongoing conversation. That makes sense. For labs, Workflow...
What’s New in Biobanking and LIMS?
Biobanking: More – Much More – Data On at least one key trend, every prediction and prognostication about the future of biobanking arrives at a consensus. The sheer volume of data facing biorepositories is likely to continue to grow…fast. Our scientific tools,...
LIMS Technical Infrastructure: Exploring LabVantage 8
Planning the Search for Bigfoot Prediction: Your average Travel Agent will have difficulty planning your expedition in Oregon’s wilderness to search for Bigfoot. I don’t mean to denigrate the travel industry, but rather to illustrate the singularly odd challenges...
How to Increase Productivity, Throughput and Functionality in Your LIMS
The decision many companies and organizations make when investing in a LIMS is often rooted in the need to be more efficient and productive. This may involve storing vast amounts of information, or increasing the throughput of a test or process – but overall, a LIMS...
What’s Coming in LabVantage 8.4: A Sneak Peek
Set to be released late January 2019, LabVantage 8.4 was unveiled last month at the annual CTEC (Customer Training and Education Conference) for LabVantage users in San Diego. Encompassing LIMS, ELN and LES, the new version incorporates numerous features – many of...
LIMS Managed Services – Avoiding the Blame Game in Your Organization
Complex IT management is…well….complex. Challenges arise, and just when you think the worst has happened more problems inevitably appear to complicate things. IT infrastructure is constantly evolving, more than virtually any other aspect of an organization. And then...
LIMS, the Cloud and You
LIMS and Contract Research & Manufacturing The trend towards outsourcing laboratory work over the last three decades has been steep. In recent years, this move to a near-universal outsourced lab model has run concurrent with the shift towards data-sharing across...
Tapping Managed Services for Integrated LIMS Deployment
LIMS Management Challenge: When There’s Trouble, Who You Gonna Call? Regardless of industry sector, companies employing LIMS in their labs all suffer from some of the same challenges – many of which stretch beyond the scope of traditional LIMS Support and Maintenance...
Speech Recognition and Digital Assistants in LIMS
One question which tends to arise in the LIMS sales cycle is whether tablets or smartphones can be used. (The answer is yes.) The immediate follow-up question is how can we use it with gloves? Tablets and gloves don’t work well together. One solution? LOTTIE – one of...
How to Integrate SAP in Your QA/QC Laboratories
In the last few years, computerization in manufacturing has gradually turned from production planning and process control to production execution systems. By having your LIMS communicate with your Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP), you tap into the power of...