Supporting a LabWare LIMS implementation often can be a technically challenging affair, especially as a new person on-boarding with an existing LabWare project. If documentation for your LabWare system is lacking, figuring out the appropriate solution can be a difficult task. The word appropriate is emphasized because usually there are multiple ways to solve a… Read More

“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