Laboratory Automation Posts
During the June 2013 IQPC meeting on “ELNs, Data Analytics and Knowledge Management”, in Boston, MA, one presentation[i]was made on th...
Among the issues that have been voiced at PITTCON 2013, ELA 2013 (June in Hamburg) and the IQPC Knowledge Management meeting in Boston (also last month) were the difficulties of lab and IT professionals working together to meet business goals.&n...
Digital systems usually find their way into scientific organizations and laboratories as tools needed to carry out a particular task rather than as part of a planned program. Internet searches, emails, plus the need to write proposals and...
Products don’t matter until you’ve done the design and planning that determines what components you need and how you are going to use them. Have you ever remodeled a kitchen? Do you purchase cabinets and appliances firs...
Most discussions in conferences concerning lab automation and systems, focus on products and technologies. What is lacking is an understanding of the full scope of phar...
If you look at the program for many scientific conferences, you might first be struck by the diversity of topics, and then by the narrow focus of the sessions. That limited span within a subject is the result of both m...
If we address some basic issues, labs can be transformed into more effective and productive facilities where people can be encouraged to do their best work. Getting there has less to do with technology and more to do with people’s ab...
With an increasing emphasis on informatics and the potential to better organize and manage data / information, there is an increasing interest in integrating the sources of laboratory data with the tools used by scientists to analyze, interp...
