Food safety laboratories navigate a comprehensive regulatory environment, ensuring the security of the worldwide food supply. In order for the food and beverage industry to be a safer, more well-trusted industry, it must incorporate quality control and standardized manufacturing methods into its efforts, which in turn require laboratory analyses to ensure meeting those quality and manufacturing standards.
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In this blog article, we are discussing a very interesting and ambitious topic:
Run Your Lab Like a Business. We will explore why it can be beneficial for some labs to adopt a managing business approach to their operations, aiming for best practices, optimal solutions, and greater achievements. Would running your lab like a business lead to real success? Why is this approach important, and how can it benefit your laboratory? We delve into the reasons why adopting this mindset can drive greater efficiency and success in your lab operations.
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In March 2023, the Pathological Anatomy Laboratory at the AZ Sint-Maarten hospital in Mechelen, Belgium, went live with a new DaVinci environment. In addition to upgrading the existing DaVinci laboratory information system (LIS), three separate databases were also merged into a single, central, multi-site environment. The laboratory now operates with a process-driven and virtually paperless workflow.
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In food and beverage labs, paper-based approaches have given way to digital informatics approaches for maintaining the safety and satisfaction of consumer-driven demand for quality foods and beverages. This includes the laboratory information management system (LIMS), which brings the potential for greater traceability and improved insight into the processes of the food and beverage business.
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Microbiology labs are critical in ensuring food and beverage safety. A purpose-built LIMS helps streamline operations for food-safety-oriented microbiology labs with well-developed and standardized sampling and test methods. Factors like flexibility, data integrity, and integration capabilities with monitoring devices help enhance efficiency, data integrity, and regulatory compliance.
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A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) provides the central repository for data produced in the laboratory. Mining that data using artificial intelligence (AI) allows managers to make decisions based on insights. But what do we mean by AI, when and how can a laboratory start to incorporate it in its processes, and when will it be all pervasive in the laboratory?
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With countless systems, complex workflows, and vast amounts of data, navigating the complex world of informatics is enough to make your head spin. Homegrown systems and disconnected data silos decrease productivity and increase risk in already complicated industries. Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) are essential for productivity in laboratory testing, helping teams manage samples, workflows, and inventory to keep processes and workflows moving forward.
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Interconnected systems and data are what the future lab will run on. If you want to bring your lab into the future, an AI-enabled and voice-powered digital lab assistant like LabTwin can be a foundational step. LabTwin’s 95% accuracy with voice capture means that you can be confident that your data is accurately transcribed. In this blog post, you’ll learn how the AI features in LabTwin can help when you adopt a digital lab assistant to bring your organization closer to the Lab of the Future today.
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A well-deployed LIMS can have a myriad of benefits for your R&D laboratory. From operational efficiency to speed to market, LIMS can play a vital role in these and other mission critical business and scientific processes. This white paper takes a close look at some of the key ways in which a LIMS should be deployed and used to reap the most benefit in your lab.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a term we see and hear a lot nowadays. It is associated with the things surrounding us daily: home electronics, cars, public transportation, shopping, etc. Has this trend reached the benches of the general research and development (R&D) lab yet? Can AI make the lives of R&D lab analysts easier? Well, yes, but not in all aspects of the work—at least not yet. This blog looks at potential applications of AI in R&D labs today and where it might still need to improve.
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LIMS are evolving rapidly, driven by technological advancements and the changing needs of modern laboratories. Keeping up with these trends is crucial for laboratories looking to enhance their efficiency, data management, and compliance. In this article, we’ll explore some of the trends in LIMS.
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Materials testing is as diverse as the available material types and industrial applications of those material types, and such testing is found across a wide variety of domains. from automotive and aerospace to metals and rubbers. Materials science testing methodologies can be divided into destructive or non-destructive analysis of physical, mechanical, chemical and biological properties.
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Businesses in the life sciences sector are navigating complex decisions regarding their laboratory data management. They face demands for data accuracy, compliance, and integrity that drive decisions about data platform use. A platform serves as a bespoke hub for data regardless of which or how many data sources are involved. Your platform choice can be a game changer for accessibility, flexibility, and data management as the life sciences industry adapts to technological advancements.
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A construction & engineering lab can involve many test methods defined by various accreditations and regulations, benefiting from various LIMS functionalities. Many LIMS vendors will already provide support for unique sample IDs, user qualification management, and data import and export. However, FAQ examines more specific functionality specific to a construction and engineering laboratory.
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With over 14 years of working with STARLIMS, Senior Business Solution Architect at Bayer AG, Tassilo Steffl, knows how to get the most value out of a laboratory information management system (LIMS). In this fireside chat with STARLIMS Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer Brandon Henning, Tassilo discusses some of the key takeaways and benefits from the partnership with STARLIMS.
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The proper quality and characterization of construction and engineering materials is critical to a construction project’s long-term success. The analysis of construction and earth materials is driven largely by society’s desire for safer, more durable structures to live, work, and play in. This testing benefits society by saving lives and reducing pre-construction, construction, and post-construction costs.
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Recognizing the importance of quality and safety management at all levels of the food and beverage business, seven principles are discussed, highlighting how they relate to overall quality and safety. A LIMS can be a vital component to an overall quality and safety management plan within the food and beverage laboratory for improved quality and safety while minimizing risks.
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In the dynamic realm of core labs, where the focus is on unravelling the mysteries of omics—proteomics, genomics, and sequencing—the quest for groundbreaking discoveries is ceaseless. Core labs play a pivotal role in revealing new drug targets, diagnostic methods, and personalised drug therapies, driving the advancement of medical science. This brings to mind the big question “
How to improve core lab operations?”.
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Compliance with industry regulations is non-negotiable in the fast-paced and highly regulated realm of life sciences. Navigating the intricate web of rules and standards is essential to ensure product and service safety, efficacy, and quality. This blog seeks to unravel the complexities of compliance regulations in the life science sector, providing a comprehensive understanding for professionals and organizations operating within this dynamic field.
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As consumers, we have a habit of purchasing products with features that fix the symptoms we are experiencing – an approach that often impacts our business choices too. But when it comes to solving laboratory challenges, we need to fully understanding the problem we’re trying to solve and the opportunities we want to harness. Key to this is answering the ‘why’ questions.
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