By John Trigg, on April 21st, 2010
The Automation & Analytical Management Group (AAMG) of the Royal Society of Chemistry is holding a one day workshop on the topic of ‘The Challenges Facing Laboratory Systems’ Integration‘ on Thursday 20th May 2010 at The Royal Society of Chemistry Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.
Arena International is holding the 2nd annual conference on ‘Laboratory Data Management‘ on [...]
By John Trigg, on March 25th, 2010
As well as running a workshop on integration (Minimise the Pain of Integrating ELNs and LIMS into your Paperless Informatics and Data Management Systems) as part of the technical programme at the recent SmartLabs Exchange, Joe Liscouski (Director, Institute for Laboratory Automation) also ran a half day session entitled ‘Manager’s Guide to Lab Automation & Technology [...]
By John Trigg, on March 24th, 2010
The 5th Annual SmartLabs Exchange meeting in Brussels (Mar 17th/18th) seemed to buck the recent trend of declining attendances and modest content with a good, total attendance of over 130 people, of whom 90 or more were end users. This meeting offers a different format to a conventional conference with an opening plenary paper per [...]
By John Trigg, on August 13th, 2009
We wander around the laboratory integration maze on this site and find all kinds of different angles to discuss about the subject, but it is important get back to root causes every so often in order to remind ourselves of what the real problem is that we are trying to solve. Joe Liscouski has provided an [...]
By John Trigg, on July 27th, 2009
Daring to mention ‘Six Sigma’ and ‘laboratory’ in the same sentence can be the precursor to a lively discussion. For most scientists, the word quality is generally associated with laboratory output, not necessarily the process that generates the output. Nevertheless, we’ve been talking about workflow for years, but this is often in the context [...]