Category: Digital Transformation
Lean Lab projects at Patheon & Esseco
At the PLA2021 Europe, we´ll have the opportunity to walk along the project of reviewing laboratories processes aiming for lean management. Roberto Rollini and Barbara Pirola will share with us their experiences and lessons learned from a 2 year project that has brought the laboratory to a next level of […]
Digital Pharmaceutical Laboratory – Challenges | Opportunities | Way Ahead
What is a digital pharmaceutical laboratory ? Historically, pharmaceutical laboratories have used paper notebooks/control sheets to keep track of their experimental data, observations and results. The laboratory data and reports are the most important evidence and record of laboratory experiments and testing. A properly maintained raw data, calculations and reports are essential […]
Compliance made easy: How digital management of lab inventory simplifies compliance
Despite digital advances in so many areas of our lives, a surprising number of laboratories are still relying on error-prone and time-consuming paper and spreadsheet-based systems for their laboratory inventory processing. Not only is this affecting their productivity – scientists can spend as much as 25% of their time managing […]
Paperless Lab Academy® Digital Survey Results
Summary of the feedbacks collected through the PLA Survey The impact of the COVID-19 situation While we were struggling to understand how to proceed with the 8th edition of our European Congress in April 2020, we launched a survey to understand better the expectations of our Paperless Lab Academy® community […]
Internet of Laboratory Things makes Life better at Work
Internet of Laboratory Things: What does #IoLT really means for you? Internet of Laboratory Things , #IoLT, is identified as a new step in the digitalisation of laboratories. But not only. A while ago, a Laboratory Director told me « if my instruments were connected and managed with error detection rules […]
Paperless Lab Academy® 2019: Digital Optimization vs Digital Transformation
Paperless Lab Academy®: a point of reference for your laboratory digital transformation projects The best way to summarize the seventh edition of the Paperless Lab Academy® is the path of the discussions that have evolved from the 20 years history of the laboratory informatics up to the management of our […]
Internet Lab of Things, keyword at the Paperless Lab Academy 2017
Written by Roberto Castelnovo, Founder at NL42 Consulting Published by Technology Networks The 5th edition of the Paperless Lab Academy consolidates its reputation as one of the best lab automation European congressesThe event took place in Barcelona and brought about 250 people from the industry coming from Europe, United States and India.At NL42 (www.nl42.com […]
Gartner @ PLA2016: “Laboratory Informatics in the Digital Era”
The last edition of the Paperless Lab Academy, celebrated in Barcelona in April 2016, hosted a lecture by, Research Vice President, Life Science R&D at Gartner, Michael Shanler entitled: “Laboratory Informatics in the Digital Era”.The Research VP of the prestigious American research and advisory firm providing information technology structured his talk according […]
Out with the old and out with the internal
Outsourcing, end-of-life LIMS, and disruptive technologies such as the cloud, are driving changes to the laboratory informatics landscape, as Tom Wilkie discovered at the Paperless Lab Academy in Barcelona Spain, this week. written by Tom Wilkie, Published online at Scientific Computing World, April 2015. The laboratory informatics industry is facing unprecedented […]
What challenges is the industry facing to find the speed to innovate? PLA2016 Debrief from Scientific Computing World
During the latest Paperless Lab Academy, a two-day event held in Barcelona in April 2016, Deputy Editor at Europa Science Ltd Robert Roe learnt the key challenges for the lab industry are data integrity, process improvement, and being able to manage data effectively, as indicated in Scientific Computing World’s (SCW) […]