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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...
LIMS and FDA 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance
In a previous post, we discussed the increasing regulatory focus being placed on Temporary Data. It’s an important topic that has far reaching implications for LIMS (and other) platforms, but it is also just the latest emergent issue impacting data compliance with FDA...
How to Choose the Right LIMS for Biobanking
Since biobanking began in the late 1990s, the industry has grown…fast. This rapid expansion and growth has translated into huge volumes of samples – all requiring storage, organization and management for the various industries and applications for which specimens are...
Oil & Gas Industry: Extracting Efficiency from Your LIMS
Today’s O&G lab is highly-integrated, efficient, and data-centric – with a focus on making data actionable in near real-time. A laboratory information management systems (LIMS) is key to helping labs function in a timely manner. In the petrochemical industry, LIMS...
Video: Packaged LIMS Solutions Lower Costs and Speed Up Implementation
Bob Voelkner, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, discusses LabVantage’s new industry-specific packaged LIMS solutions. These packages – available for a number of different applications including biobanking, pharma and the oil & gas industry – lower costs and...
Customer LIMS Co-Design: Partnering with LabVantage
The key to LIMS configuration co-design is that it puts you – the user – at the center of the design process. When you’re actively involved in designing and developing your LIMS configuration, you’re rewarded with a system you already know in-depth, as well as being...
Moving from Custom to Out-of-the-Box Biobanking LIMS
LabVantage 8 Editions Offer OOB LIMS Solutions for a Range of Applications A biorepository might potentially manage 50 different registry protocols, consist of tens of thousands participants and offer hundreds of thousands of samples. At these scales, your informatics...
Biobanking: When to Consider Upgrading Your LIMS for Sample Management
How Important is Biobanking Today? Biobanking is a growth industry. Medicine & research are increasingly demanding well-preserved samples. A 2015 Pathobiology article on Biobanking Trends, Challenges & Opportunities details how the “growth of translational...
Training for LIMS
At LabVantage, we are firm believers in the importance of training & ongoing education. While developing a cutting edge LIMS platform is important, ensuring our customers can maximize their use of the software is equally as important - if not more important. Why...
One ELN to Rule Them All
Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) are now found in labs everywhere, from the pharmaceutical to food and beverage, to the oil and gas industries. At its core, a LIMS system manages the workflow of samples during testing – along with the approval and...
Quality Assurance: The Role of Formulations Management
Product formulation development control processes are critical to ensuring product quality and specs are met. A robust formulations management plan is the key to successful formulation control. A white paper, Enabling Product Quality Assurance Via Effective...