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Operational Excellence QC Lab Benchmark: NL42 to collaborate with University Sant Gallen

Isabel Munoz-Willery — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:26:08 +0000

NL42 Consulting S.L. has recently signed a collaboration agreement with the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, on a new Operational Excellence QC Lab benchmarking initiative.

What is the project about?

The Benchmarking exercise helps to assess your Operational Excellence (OPEX) Performance and Maturity in the Quality Control (QC) Lab. The joint development of the benchmarking with leading pharmaceutical companies ensured the right scope of OPEX assessment in QC Labs.

The industry–tested holistic approach of the St. Gallen OPEX Benchmarking ensures a meaningful assessment of your QC Lab taking into account lab specific characteristics.

What are your advantages?

A personalized report shows your relative performance in KPIs in the following categories:

Productivity
Quality
Service
Cost Efficiency

It further reveals the implementation level of defined Enablers specific to your QC Lab. An extract of a personalized report is available at: http://tectem.ch/institute/opex/qclab-benchmarking

Key focus areas of the benchmarking

It is important that Operational Excellence is not only measured by performance outcomes but also by analyzing how an organization achieves this performance. To bring performance outcomes and enabling factors together provides a comprehensive picture of your lab’s OPEX Performance and Maturity.

Productivity: How efficient is the lab doing their job? Disclosed insights on utilization and usage of synergy effects
Quality: How effective is the lab doing their job? Conclusions about process & product qualit
Service: Monitor both: Lab processing speed & adherence to schedule
Maintenance & Quality System: Maintenance, technology assessment, house- keeping, and standardization & simplification.
Planning & Steering System: Managing commitment & culture, employee involvement & improvement and functional integration
Management System: Set-up reduction, pull approach, layout optimization, planning adherence and visual management

About the University St. Gallen

USG has large experience in Operational Excellence in the Pharmaceutical Industry and has recently designed a novel QC Lab Benchmarking initiative. www.item.unisg.ch

Professor Thomas Friedli from USG, 10+ years of experience in OPEX in the pharmaceutical industry comments:

“We have seen great interest in this project over the last months by the industry and would like to give the opportunity to any QC Laboratory to participate as well.”

The QC Lab Benchmarking was developed together with the industry to ensure feasibility and usefulness of the outcome. Both KPIs and Enablers make this benchmarking a comprehensive tool to assess the performance and maturity of your QC lab, finally the specific questions regarding structural factors of the lab allows us to compare similar labs to each other.

About NL42

NL42 has large experience in data management at QC laboratories and propose services oriented to paperless processes. www.NL42.com

NL42 sat close to the final users, QC lab mangers and IT partners to review processes and identify data integrity breaches along the whole data life cycle in a laboratory. Afterwhat, NL42 proposes most adequate IT strategy to reach the lab business objectives and and a project plan for implementing lab informatics solutions.

NL42 and the Paperless Lab Academy

NL42 is an independent consultancy company that also organised the European annual congress Paperless Lab Academy. The Congress brings a good opportunity for the industries to interact with opinion leaders, final users and solutions providers.

During the PLA2017, Professor Thomas Friedli has introduced the project and discussed on Key Efficiency Drivers of Quality Control Laboratories in the Pharmaceutical Industry. More information on the St Gallen presentation at PLA2017

Interested in the OPEX QC Lab Benchmark exercise?

Do not hesitate to contact Roberto Castelnovo ( Italian, English, Spanish) or Isabel Munoz-Willery ( French, Spanish, English), both owners at NL42 Consulting.

Roberto.castelnovo@NL42.com | cell: +39 340 456 3204 | skype: nl42_roberto | linkedin

Isabel.munoz@NL42.com | cell: +34 629 026 621 | skype:nl42_isabel | linkedin

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Paperless Lab Academy on local TV

PLA Team — Mon, 15 May 2017 11:26:17 +0000

Video: TV3 a la carta / generación digital / ens-endinsem-en-el-fenomen-paperless-viure-sense-papers

The program starts with the Paperless book written by David Sparks that was selected as one of the “Best of 2012” by the iBooks Store.

Paperless takes the mystery (and fear) out of going paperless with your Apple technology. The book includes 32 screencasts, 4 movies, over 26,000 words, and other rich-media assets to turn you into a paperless ninja. The material is accessible to beginners and power users alike with a thorough explanation of all the hardware, software, and workflows necessary to finally conquer paper.

The TV3 camera went through the paperless lab academy congress and discovered what is the industry investing in. Isabel Muñoz took them to the laboratory data management concept with practical daily life example like all the metadata associated to a single smartphone picture. As for all interviews, in the end we´ve got our 1 minute fame!

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Discover why you should come to next PLA2018

PLA Team — Tue, 02 May 2017 15:16:20 +0000

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Internet Lab of Things, keyword at the Paperless Lab Academy 2017

Isabel Munoz-Willery — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 10:17:29 +0000

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 congresses

The 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 ), we are extremely pleased with the results and feedback received after the recent acquisition of the event’s organization (press release)

The event is dedicated to companies needing to adopt a paperless approach in their scientific data management throughout the product life cycle. We decided to focus this year’s edition on the Internet of Lab things (IoLT) with the title "2020 Roadmap for Digital Convergence - transforming scientific information into actionable insight".

The event consists of a balanced mix of plenary and workshop sessions. The sponsors benefit an interactive workshop where they showcase the latest trends in methodology, systems and tools. Attracted by the chance to get to know the key players and the new comers, our visitors have several opportunities to network and interact with providers, peers and colleagues.

This post event article aims to summarize the key concepts introduced and discussed along these two days through the plenary sessions and the 20 interactive sponsored sessions.

The discussions went from the very beginning of the journey when a laboratory should start transforming its processes from paper to paperless or better say less paper. Pat Pijanowski, partner at LabAnswer explained that “transformational solutions start with a comprehensive data strategy”, highlighting the importance of doing the foundational work first, and assessing your current state of readiness versus the 6 different levels of a Maturity model of vocabulary & master data management.

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Once the transformational process has started, the requirements for connecting the instruments, integrating the systems and ensuring a seamless flow of the data between interfaces drives us to the compliance requirements such as data integrity.

Multiple sponsored workshop sessions have covered these topics from different angles. Labware and Waters presented their own solutions and discussed about data integrity requirements and ALCOA+ definitions while iVention took the opportunity to share their customer experience with the support of an expert in auditing.

Internet Lab of Things

The concept of IoLT is now becoming a new acronym for the industry, a derived approach for laboratories of the IoT that everybody is getting familiar with.

The concept of data received directly from instruments, sensors, devices perfectly fits with the laboratory world, where the opportunities to create a seamless integration will be certainly driving the future of the scientific data management.

Actually, the IoLT acronym has been introduced for the first time during the previous edition of the event, confirming that the Paperless Lab Academy is the place to be to learn about future trends in the market

Michael Shanler, Research Vice President Analyst at Gartner has perfectly set the scene of the IoLT concept in his presentation “Exploring The Digital Potential For Laboratory of the Future”. The future is already here, as several sponsors have demonstrated during their workshops. Cubuslab has specifically presented a platform which allows the implementation of IoLT today.

Michael has emphasized that we shouldn’t confine IoT to a single domain as the big digital potential is in new business models with converging ecosystems. Gartner’s Research VP also analysed the elements and uses of AI-assisted Lab and Business Processes.

Shanler described the IoT ecosystem as follows: IoT in Labs is at the core of the ecosystem and is related to Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) through quality manufacturing while is linked to a series of elements through research and development, such as Smart home IoT, mHealth (HC/Fitness) and dClinical (drug trials). At the same time, Smart home IoT is related to Connected car IoT, and Energy Utilities IoT. And, of course, IoT in Labs and Industrial internet of things (IIoT) are converging ecosystems.

Mark Newton, Senior Consultant-QA at Eli Lilly, key contributor of the ISPE GAMP working group, has helped the audience to evaluate the data integrity challenges associated with the use of systems generating a large amount of data like a chromatography data system, “Manipulating Chromatography Data for Fun and Profit” It’s clear that these systems are nowadays under the scrutiny of several investigations and audits. At the same time, we believe that the major providers are making significant steps to support their clients in ensuring the data integrity throughout the entire data life cycle.

Data Governance

Kurt in Albon, Global Head of Quality Assurance at Lonza took us to data governance, approaching the challenge from the managerial point of view. The human factor remains one of the most critical aspects of the projects. The data governance approach ensures that all employees are engaged in the successful implementation of the data governance, starting from the senior management which should instil the culture to the operators who are generating, analysing and submitting the information.

Sofie van der Meulen, Attorney at Axon Lawyers, key note speaker of the event in the last years, always bring very interesting insight from the legal perspective. The IoT introduces new legal challenges, as the devices are now able to collect a huge amount of data, including private information. We believe that the ability to handle this large amount of data in the most appropriate manner in terms of privacy will be a key differentiator for the future, particularly in R&D environments.

Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence, Industry 4.0

Louis Halvorsen, Chief Technical Officer at Northwest Analytics developed for the audience the concept of EMI and the design principle of the industry 4.0. We have found this presentation as the perfect summary of the opportunities that proper “paperless” data management can bring to the industry, allowing the sharing of R&D, production and quality information in a simple manner.

Several other presentations have highlighted very interesting aspects of the scientific data management, including how research and academic organizations can be supported by “paperless” projects.

Operational Excellence QC Lab Benchmark

Prof. Thomas Friedli, Professor for Production Management and Director Institute of Technology Management at St. Gallen University, has introduced the audience to an overview of the operational excellence concept. His organization can provide insightful information on the laboratory performance, thanks to a consolidated benchmarking analysis based on one of the largest databases worldwide. We believe that the operational excellence is becoming more and more one of the cornerstones of the future labs. The evaluation of the performance against a large amount of peer organizations is the perfect tool to help the laboratories to focus on key areas that can be optimized and enhanced.

The PLA2017 ELN Survey

We have been pleased to present the results of the ELN (Electronic Laboratory Notebook) survey which has been designed with the collaboration of Scientific Computing World. ELN remains one of the critical tools to be implemented in the industry, from research to development and subsequently in the production stage. Academic organizations are also using very frequently this type of application. We´ll soon release a comprehensive summary of survey outcome and the full results will be made available upon request.

The Solutions providers, partners of the PLA2017, brought the latest and shared their vision

The presence of sponsors has been extremely positive during this edition. It demonstrated the importance of the event for the companies which are having an interest to present their capabilities, new products or future trends. Beside the companies which are having a long history of success in this market, new companies have joined the PLA2017. This expansion is giving us high confidence that the congress will continue to attract even more people in the coming years.

While the presentations have been a very well appreciated part of the congress, the 20 workshops allowed attendees to have direct experience with specialized computer solutions in the sector and get a first-hand view of their functionalities.

This large number of workshops has allowed to cover a full range of topics and get in contact with very well-known companies operating in this industry and new enterprises which are approaching this market with new ideas, new technologies and fresh approaches.

Labware, ThermoFisher Scientific, Perkin-Elmer, Waters, Biovia and Abbott are very well known companies in this field. They have provided their view on different aspects of the scientific data management, from data integrity (Labware) to lean processes (Abbott) going through a complete new view of lab data management (Thermo-Fisher). ELN capabilities have been covered by Perkin-Elmer launching at our event their new SignalsNotebook. The concept of archiving data has been developed by Waters, while Biovia has focused on a new tool called Discoverant, capable to provide a full overview of the scientific information.

Mettler Toledo has also focused on data integrity, even if their perspective is always extremely interesting as it focuses on the bench and the data generated by the instruments.

The product offering around traditional tools for laboratory data management is now enriched by the proposals of companies that have recently entered in this market, like Agilab from France proposing their paperless approach to document management using a very modern user interface based on Oracle and easily deployable on premises and in the cloud, ICSA a Spanish provider that focused on environmental monitoring, both from the hardware and software point of view or Kneat Software that is offering a very modern solution for system validation.

Lonza has proposed their solution for paperless in the specific area of environmental monitoring where they have become a de facto reference.

IDBS and iVention have given their respective proposal to address the cloud implementations with attention to data integrity.

Specialized consulting firms like Spreitzenbarth Consultants and Osthus and software/consulting partners like iCD and BSSN have proposed their experienced approach to the different topics covered in the two days event, like process management, paperless and data integrity.

Research activities have been covered in three different workshops sponsored by Collaborative Drug Discovery, Core Informatics and Dotmatics. CDD has dedicated the workshop to the concept of “collaborative technologies” combining traditional tools like ELN with others to create a collaborative environment to share resource data. Core Informatics has introduced the concept of the “Platform for Science Marketplace” which allows a simple approach to the implementation of research workflows, connecting Core’s platform with other systems in a simple manner. Dotmatics has focused on the specific workflows of antibodies, which are becoming a critical aspect of research activities. The solution proposed is able to generate full integrated workflows using the core capabilities of their products.

For the third year, the event took place at the Rey Don Jaime Hotel, in Castelldefels, near Barcelona in a beautiful environment by the sea where the attendees have enjoyed the atmosphere and networking opportunities.

Satisfaction Rating from Visitors

The satisfaction survey outcome confirms that the three pillars rich content, non-commercial presentations, showcase workshops and enjoyable networking sessions, make this unique event, and are acknowledged by sponsors and visitors as the key combination for one of the best European event in its category.

To conclude with where we started at the PLA2017, this event is organized by Peter Boogaard, Isabel Muñoz-Willery and Roberto Castelnovo, yet none of us are event organisers! Three independent consultants with strong domain knowledge, consolidated international network and managerial skills which have permitted us to build an event with increasing notoriety and reputation over the years. We´re thankful to the 2017 sponsors to allow the “last but not least” key differentiator of this event, which is free entry to visitors from the industry.

written by Roberto Castelnovo, Founder at NL42 Consulting | Paperless Projects

Founded in 2013, NL42 is a dynamic consulting firm that operates at European level, specialized in helping companies to adopt a “paperless” approach to scientific data management. As independent consultants, we offer our expertise and business vision to support companies that are looking for adopting digital transformation approaches. Organiser of the annual European congress Paperless Lab Academy.

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First in series of post-event articles from Scientific Computing World

PLA Team — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:36:15 +0000

Robert Roe, deputy editor at Europa Science Ltd has recently published the first in series of articles covering the 5th edition of the PLA .

"Predicting the future of the laboratory" develops the presentations of our keynote speakers from Northwest analytics on one hand and Gartner on the other hand.

Louis Halvorsen, CTO at NWA and Michael Sandler, Vice president research at Gartner have both highlighted the importance for the laboratory to get on board with the latest technologies available today, in order to move from being the " black box" of the industry and become the rich data provider with strong insight within the company, become a key contributor to the business decisions at corporate level. While this might come one day, because it´s happening already as we speak at some pioneers companies that are anticipating the future, the needs are extremely basic at first instance.

Pat Pijanowski at LAbAnswer explained clearly that no transformational changes can really happen without a well designed and comprehensive data strategy. Agreed and aligned vocabulary along the company would be the foundation for a successful Master Data Management into which any other systems could find the related information required for them to execute their queries.

The future is already at our door with the internet of things and now, already introduced at the PLA2016, the Internet of Lab Things, IoLT, alongside is the new ecosystem converging to the Industrial Internet of things, IIoT.

The organisation wants to take the opportunity here to thanks again Scientific Computing World for supporting the Cocktail reception of the event which has been greatly appreciated by all the attendees.

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Scientific Computing World features our 2017 event

PLA Team — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:53:47 +0000

PLA2017 Event Preview from SCW

Our premium media partner Scientific Computing World, one of the most important European magazines devoted to helping scientists, researchers, and engineers who use computing in their work, features our event in their February-March issue. The article, entitled “¡Paperless, por favor!” profiles some of the exhibitors and speakers at the event.
The 5th edition of the Paperless Lab Academy will take place on the 4th and 5th April in Barcelona (Spain). The title for this year’s event is “2020 Roadmap for Digital Convergence. Transform scientific information into actionable insight” and it includes 20 workshops and several presentations by thought industry leaders.

Read event Agenda
Read event Workshops
Read full Scientific Computing World article

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Share your views on Electronic Lab Notebooks and win 2 nights stay in Barcelona

PLA Team — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:23:53 +0000

NL42 organisers of the Paperless Lab Academy have teamed up with Scientific Computing World to create a survey that explores the use of Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) software for both current and prospective ELN users.

As you probably know, Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN) are computer programs designed to replace paper laboratory notebooks. Among their benefits for the user and the organisations according to Wikipedia we can mention ELNs are “easier to search upon, simplify data copying and backups, and support collaboration amongst many users. ELNs can have fine-grained access controls, and can be more secure than their paper counterparts. They also allow the direct incorporation of data from instruments, replacing the practice of printing out data to be stapled into a paper notebook”.

Choosing a good electronic laboratory notebook software solution can become a difficult task, as an ELN should be able to combine the ability to “offer a secure environment to protect the integrity of both data and process”, as Wikipedia explains, with the “flexibility to adopt new processes or changes to existing processes without recourse to further software development”. The chosen ELN should also include a modular design to minimize validation costs of future changes, and should contain “fully configurable forms to comply with the requirements of regulated analytical groups”.

The organisers of the Paperless Lab Academy (Isabel Muñoz-Willery, Roberto Castelnovo, and Peter Boogaard) are very interested in ELN, so we decided to team up with Scientific Computing World to make a survey to gauge opinion on the use of (ELN) software and also to know how features, implementation, and pricing can affect the decision to deploy ELN systems within an organisation. Even if you are not currently using ELN software in the laboratory we would like your help to better understand why organisations deploy ELN software.

Any participants that would like to provide contact details will also be in with the chance to win two nights stay at the Gran Hotel Rey Don Jaime, Castelldefels, Barcelona to attend the Paperless Lab Academy 2017 on April 4th & 5th.

Go to survey now.

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Learn more about ELN:

–DAMAS – Data Acquisition, Management, and Analysis System – an integrated Electronic Lab Notebook @ work (Presentation by Roche)

–Collaboration to Insight: Closing the gap between data capture and real-time decisions (Workshop by Perkin Elmer)

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PLA announces New Management yet same Objectives

Isabel Munoz-Willery — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:01:15 +0000

PRESS RELEASE: The Paperless Lab Academy introduces the 2017 edition in Barcelona and announces new management

The fifth Paperless Lab Academy (PLA), Europe’s leading laboratory automation event, will be held on 4 to 5 April 2017 in Barcelona, Spain, on the theme of 2020 Roadmap for digital convergence.

The two-day event, organized by Industrial Lab Automation and NL42 Consulting, brings partners and attendees together in an environment designed to promote mutual interaction and exchange of views during plenary sessions and topic-focused workshops.

The founder of the event, Peter Boogaard, CEO of Industrial Lab Automation, explained: ‘Over the past four years, the PLA has been raising awareness of “what works and what doesn’t”. At PLA2017, we’ll be investigating a roadmap for the next decade, and how the convergence of paper and digital is bringing a new dimension to laboratory informatics. The extensive use of data analytics and applying lessons learnt from other industries, such as adopting an Industry 4.0 mind-set, will accelerate and make easer the badly needed integration of scientific equipment with enterprise software, to ensure a cost effective and high quality contribution from the laboratory to the enterprise as a whole.’

Roberto Castelnovo and Isabel Muñoz-Willery, founders of NL42 Consulting, are to take over as new owners of the event, and have emphasized that they will maintain the unique concept of this annual conference.

Isabel said: ‘Under the new management, Peter will continue to play an important role as a member of the scientific committee.’ Roberto added: ‘We believe in the successful formula of the PLA which is based on three pillars: content-rich, non-commercial sessions; a showcase of informatics tools and methodologies available today, through interactive workshops hosted by leading suppliers; and free access to all industry delegates.’

About the Paperless Lab Academy

The PLA takes place annually and is aimed at directors and managers of research and development, IT and quality departments in pharmaceutical, cosmetic, biotechnological, petro-chemical and chemical markets. The event is focused on building the ideal learning platform for all organizations involved in running laboratories, and in consolidating, integrating or simplifying the data they generate.

Registration and programme are available at www.paperlesslabacademy.com

About NL42 Consulting

NL42 Consulting is a dynamic, free-thinking, independent management consultancy. Combining the flexibility and enthusiasm of a newly created company with the many decades of experience of its owners, NL42 provides services to support moving the laboratory to paperless processes. The expertise it offers is a powerful combination of technical know-how, profound managerial understanding of laboratories’ workflows, and international networking.

www.nl42.com

contact: Roberto Castelnovo, Email: Roberto.castelnovo@NL42.com, Phone: +39 340 456 3204

About Industrial Lab Automation

Industrial Lab Automation provides services to address harmonization, integration and consolidation of business processes in life-science development and manufacturing. Industrial Lab Automation enables cross-functional collaboration between research, development, quality assurance, and manufacturing corporations.

www.industriallabautomation.com

contact:Peter J. Boogaard, Email: peterboogaard@industriallabautomation.com, Phone +31 654 263516

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Paperless Lab Academy: 5 years devoted to lab automation

PLA Team — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:29:58 +0000

We are celebrating 5 years of a Project. A project intended to get you the best information, the best orientation, and the best networking opportunities. Five years ago, The Paperless Lab Academy Founder Peter Boogaard ( founder at Industrial Lab Automation) lab there was something missing in the lab automation industry in Europe. Executives in laboratory IT, R&D, QC, QA, Management, Manufacturing and Research were immersed in a complex and fast-changing environment and needed an easy way to keep updated about the new lab solutions, meet each other and share experiences. Peter´s domain expertise has been the key factor for building a learning platform for all those considering consolidating, integrating and simplifying scientific data management processes and systems.

One of the major lab automation events in Europe

Celebrating 5 years of our Lab Automation event

This platform has been growing from year one until it has become one of the major lab automation events in Europe. From its foundation, the congress has been building on a strong reputation and is acknowledged by thought market leaders, supported by an increasing number of attendees from the industry. Nowadays, the Paperless Lab Academy is organized by three domain experts, independent consultants operating in Europe: founder Peter Boogaard, together with Isabel Muñoz-Willery Ph.D. and Roberto Castelnovo ( founders at NL42 consulting) who joined the project in 2015.

The 3 pillars of our event defined since the beginning remain and are the foundation supporting the event structure:

A peer to peer networking platform facilitating end-users experiences sharing and discussions.
A showcase of various informatics tools and methodologies available today through interactive workshops hosted by leading suppliers.
Access to all industry attendees at “no fee” charge.

To learn more about the subjects to be discussed in PLA2017 edition under the theme “2020 ROADMAP FOR DIGITAL CONVERGENCE” click Paperless Lab Academy 2017 Agenda.

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SCW magazine announces the PLA2017

PLA Team — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 17:22:50 +0000

Freshly published from our media partner “Catalonia Calling” introduces the mission and objectives of the fifth edition.

The convergence of paper and digital will turn laboratory informatics into management information

Europe’s leading laboratory automation event, Paperless Lab Academy (PLA) 2017 will take place on the 4th and 5th April in Barcelona under the title: “2020 Roadmap for Digital Conversion” as the Scientific Computing World (SCW) article below reports.

‘For its fifth session, the PLA aims to stimulate creative and productive discussions that will set the basis for a successful Roadmap to 2020 to convert laboratory data into information with a purpose – providing the right information at the right moment and driving informed decision-making‘ -explained Peter Boogaard, founder of Paperless Lab Academy to SCW reporter.

The yearly event is aimed at directors and managers of research and development, quality and IT departments in markets as diverse as pharmaceutical, cosmetic, biotechnological and petrochemical. Most major LIMS, ELN, LES and SDMS suppliers will be participating in the event – which is free to attend – with around 200 delegates and 25 sponsors/exhibitors planning to register, as the aforementioned SCW article explains.
The emphasis during the previous editions of the PLA was put on raising awareness of “what works and what doesn’t” and of enhancing the visibility of the latest solutions and methodologies.

This year, The Paperless Lab Academy committee of Peter Boogaard, Isabel Muñoz-Willery, and Roberto Castelnovo will apply this approach to the following themes:

Expanding the holistic lifecycle.
Data analytics to detect data Integrity.
Spreadsheet management – how to manage differing versions of almost the same spreadsheet.
Audit trail as a source to improve operational excellence.
Data governance versus data integrity.
Transforming to self-documenting processes. Learnings from other industries.
The impact of robotics on paperless document flow.
How to measure the alignment of our personnel skill-set.
Waterfall vs agile processes.
Modeling and simulation to predict shelf-life time.
Gaining insights by integrating different scientific technologies processes.
Expanding the DI mindset to include simulation life cycle.

Read more about 2020 Roadmap for Digital Conversion

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