“On a Friday afternoon at 2:00 p.m., a sudden department meeting is scheduled within the hour to report the performance metrics of our labs. To do this, we’ll need information from our LabWare LIMS; how are we going to prepare for this meeting?” The scenario above is a familiar situation we’ve seen and one that… Read More

The work performed in laboratories often produces too much data for one person to fully understand in a reasonable amount of time. Reports help extract complex data and turn it into information that can be comprehended easily. Sometimes the data can be as simple as reporting on results that fall out of spec (in which… Read More

In our more than 200 person-years of experience with LabWare LIMS™, we’ve seen a lot of creative ways to derive business value from a LabWare system. Some are the easy wins, like instrument integration for improved automation or data visualization and dashboards for improved understanding of results. But we’re often surprised at the ways that… Read More

When you hear “dashboard” many think of the instrument panel of a car in front of the driver that provides the status of the different systems (transmission, cooling system, fuel system, engine, etc.).  Within the laboratory, a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) can have a dashboard too.  After implementing them, LIMS dashboards can provide valuable… Read More

Is your LabWare implementation giving you headaches? Upgrading to LabWare 7 is a great opportunity to take advantage of a trove of new features and evaluate what LIMS can do for your lab. Do any of these problems sound familiar to you? Where’s my data? This is too complicated! Do you have trouble visualizing what… Read More