Laboratory downtime is a period of planned or unplanned stoppage of normal operations. Planned downtime may be scheduled for necessary maintenance tasks, or for system or software upgrades to be…
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During the initial design process, many labs fail to plan for future equipment substitutions, or repurposing of the workspace. This makes it logistically problematic as well as expensive to adapt…
Many scientific disciplines are facing difficulty in producing reproducible findings, which brings into question the validity of data. This is where biobanks have an important role to play in enhancing…
Laboratories across the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries have faced unprecedented challenges in recent years, related to staffing shortages and increasing testing volumes. These challenges, combined with social distancing restrictions…
Laboratories dealing with high volumes of samples will be all too familiar with the logistical and operational difficulties related to tracking sample inventories. Maintaining a clear audit trail across the…
As you might imagine, we deal with a lot of lab technicians, research associates, scientists, post docs, lab managers, supervisor and yes, even directors who have to deal either directly…
As a lab operation grows, so does the need to have unique identifiers (UID) for each sample to track its processing and associate particular biological / chemical properties and analytical results. Often, the first step in implementing a new…