It is just a misconception that all laboratories are fitted with an automated LIMS. You will be surprised to know that there are still many laboratories out there that still use excel spreadsheets. If your laboratory is using excel spreadsheets to enter data and keep track of your samples, you are certainly not alone.

Many paper based laboratories have the mindset that moving to a LIMS will be time consuming and will not have money in the budget for management’s approval.  Smaller laboratories as with larger laboratories have the option to move to an automated process. As workload in a laboratory increases, there are many benefits of an automated LIMS. Tests and procedures can be automatically assigned to clients, calculations can be calculated as soon as the raw data has been inputed and the report generated in seconds. Not only can the client be e-mailed the report within minutes of the data being inputed, the client can also receive the invoice at the same time as the report, allowing better cashflow to the your laboratory.

There are many advantages to switching to a LIMS if you are using excel spreadsheets. Time saving, less transcription errors, automatic report generation as well as having all your data traceable.

To find out more about switching to a LIMS from paper based and excel spreadsheets, visit

Lims Software – Laboratory Information Management System – Lims1

As your laboratory grows, so do the manuals, procedures and all the paperwork that comes with it. This is a great position to be in. It’s a time where your business is growing and you need to organise all your documents!!

Things you need to look for :

 Very Secure (SSL)

 Enterprise Archiving

 Email/SMS Alert

 Full Text Search

 Full Editing Control

 Full Version Control

  An easy way to manage your Laboratory Documents centrally as well as a framework for archiving on enterprise level.

 Laboratory Documents in any format can securely be stored to and accessed from one repository.

 Data sharing, enhances documents’ control, simplifies documents’ review and moves your lab one-step closer to being a paperless lab.

 Version controls and advanced search function .

 A tool to optimize your intellectual control and to ensure compliance to good data and record management which is the first crucial step to good quality management.

It is time to simplify your paperwork and manage your documents lifecycle from creation to archiving more effectively. Provide your employees with the most up to date and relevant SOP.

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The step ladder to take your Lab Performance to a higher level has arrived.

There are two equally important aspects of your laboratory’s performance, the internal excellence and the external recognition. You need a single tool which can achieve both, that is you implement mechanism to instil excellence in your staff and at the same time get external recognition in the form of ISO 17025. These are the two aspects which are comprehensively covered by our ground breaking product Lab-Trainer.

What makes Lab-Trainer stand-out?

Know who needs to be trained on what and when.

Now you can plan and prepare for training without the last minute scrambling that occurs when recurring training becomes due. We invariably act when we are forced to act. That is: when an employee leaves or when we need to train the replacement and when a new equipment arrives, we again have the need to train our people. The list is endless and that is what can be codified by Lab-Trainer, offering you the peace of mind.

Easily track Employee Credentials in the laboratory to safeguard your ISO 17035 Cortication

Do you feel unprepared for ISO 17025 Audit? Do you have employee training records stored in different systems, file cabinets, or within various groups? With Lab-Trainer, you can consolidate these disparate systems into one and always know where to find all your training records. It is all the thing of past, you are ready for an audit at any time, you know the status of the training instantly and you can plan the training schedule in a predictable way.

Manage and share your training data across your company from a central repository.

Whether you want to provide more transparency to training records for everyone or just standardize a back-office system for training records administrators and managers, Training Manager allows you to create login accounts to define who can login, view, or edit the training records database.

Eliminate the tedious, time-consuming work spent preparing training compliance reports.

If you have been working with a paper or Excel based tracking system, you know how much work it takes to determine whether an individual is compliant with required training. Summarizing compliance metrics for a Group or the entire Company can be a daunting task without a training records database. With Lab-Trainer, you can print these reports at any time without the trouble of manually collating and preparing the data.

Lab-Trainer Features

Lab-Trainer is rich in feature, integrates with our Laboratory Management software such as LIMS1, Oil Commander and LubeLab 17025.

The following rich features ensure you have the best of the breed solution.

• Track training records and status for each key personnel working in the laboratory
• Assign required training by individual, job function, or group.
• Schedule and manage class sessions based on core skills, equipment testing responsibility
• Record attendance, training completion
• Record training credits, training hours, and assessment scores.
• Print status reports to demonstrate training compliance.
• Print employee transcripts.
• Track training costs by Group, Individual, Course, Category, or Supervisor.
• Save file attachments associated with the records.
• Export data and reports to various formats.
• Audit trail report which tracks data changes.
• Send class session reminders alerts to individuals and managers

Integration with Laboratory Management Software

With its modular design and open data base structure, you can integrate with other system. As a standard product, it has the integration features with our Laboratory Management Software LIMS1

Customer Service Teams are continually faced with daily challenges in managing their customer’s expectations.

In this article, we look at the advantages of Lims1 Portal and how it can help free up your Customer Service Staff and help improve customer retention.

With the on-going demands that laboratories experience, Lims1 developers have used their expertise to deliver an innovative easy to use customer solution with Lims1 Web Portal. Completely rebuilt from scratch, Lims1 Web Portal replaces KIWI Web Portal with many new and improved Features. In response to requests from our existing customers, improvements have been incorporated into the new Lims1 Web Portal.

Lims1 Web Portal provides your customers instant access to their Laboratory Data.

Laboratory Data is available 24/7

Customers can access results and reports at any time, from anywhere.  You choose the information you want to make available and when you want to make it available.

Clients can retrieve historical results, Certificates of Analysis

The Database effectively becomes your customer’s database. Laboratories are increasingly asked by their customers to deliver reports and results online. Lims1 Web Portal provides your customers with their own, secure, easy to use web portal where they can download reports, review results and work status.

Clients can register their own samples

Clients can register their own samples prior to delivery with the Lims1 Sample Registration optional add-on, speeding up delivery. Customers can pre-register samples to greatly enhance communication, registration, and resource planning.

Easy Assignment of User Roles and Privileges

Clients can add and Edit users and users can manage their own passwords.

Logout Button

The logout button is now accessible from all screens for added security.

Mobile Friendly Screens

Lims1 Web Portal is Mobile ready. Your clients can now easily access their data in the field. With the optional add-on Sample Registration feature, clients can log in samples as soon as they have collected them in the field.

Security and Compliance

Your data is secure, with Role and permission based authentication and authorization. SSL technology is available ensuring your sensitive information such as client data remain private.

Easy Deployment

Minimal IT involvement

Lims1 Web Portal is a great way to satisfy customer expectations and their increasing demands on laboratory staff. Implementing the Lims1 Portal can free up staff, and keep your customers happy by providing them with the information they need when they want it.

For more information visit www.lims1.com or call LTech to organise a demonstration of Lims1 Web Portal – A tool to keeping your customers happy.

Emergent Labs are finally on the same footing as Established Labs and installing LIMS

Emergent labs do what established labs do but with a difference. They achieve results with fewer resources.  As they grow their business, they need better tools.  But the tools they need are expensive and therefore out of reach for most emergent labs especially the LIMS software. And that is the problem I was assigned to solve.

I was given the brief to design the LIMS software for emergent labs and propel their operation to the next level at an affordable cost. And our race to deliver Emergent Lab software had started.

This is the story of how our team at LTech went about designing LIMS software for emergent labs.

What are the challenges of Emergent Labs?

Emergent labs have certain distinguishing characteristics. Typically they are run by dedicated and ambitious people pre-occupied with day to day operation, leaving no time or budget for implementing any LIMS software.

By the very nature of being emergent, their needs are dynamic, they are evolving and they are preoccupied with growth. That is more the reason that they should use better LIMS tools rather than relying on spreadsheet, pencil and paper. This is easier said than done because Emergent Labs also have budgetary constraints. Most LIMS systems are expensive and implementation is time consuming.

That is where I was challenged to design a system for the emergent labs which can be cost effective, quick to give result and offer extensibility as the business grows. That is how my marathon run started to design LIMS software for emergent labs.

How our research team at Ltech met the challenge?

As the Research and Development Director of LTech (an established supplier of LIMS software), I was instructed to comply with the following brief:

Design a LIMS software which must be affordable (meaning implementation cost below $ 10,000) taking the user from start to finish. That should include hosting infrastructure, software, and installation. The emergent lab must be able to use the software immediately and derive productivity gain from word go.

What was our architecture?

From our experience of implementing large scale and complex LIMS, we concluded that for emergent labs, our architecture must be compact and it must deal with all essential components of LIMS but with a difference. It should be extensible.  To achieve this goal, we must have an expansion bus around the core product so that as the business grows, we must be able to add more functionality simply by plugging in additional modules.

That resulted in the LIMS product architecture as shown above. The core LIMS for emergent labs is at the centre connected with extensible modules for the future growth.

The Final Roll-Out

Emergent Lab version of the software is now ready for delivery. Looking back, we have achieved a breakthrough. We have finally arrived at an optimal architecture; starting with a constellation of core products to be used immediately and an expansion hub to grow with the business, making the product future-proof.

And it has been well worth the effort. Now the emergent labs (just like their established peers) can implement LIMS system with full knowledge that their expansion hub can take them far, very far with low initial investment, and they can be productive not in months or weeks but within a day or two.

Dr Pramod Pandey is Research and Development Director at LTech, an established LIMS software supplier for Labs. Dr Pandey holds more than thirty patents in the field of software engineering and business transformation.

One thing remains for certain, the generation of becoming environmentally friendly and not putting pen to paper is fast becoming athing of the past. Move over excel spreadsheets and hello Laboratory Management Information Systems!!

The need to streamline sample tracking and traceability, data collection, and report generation is becoming more of a commonality.

Regardless of what industry you are in, Environmental, Pharmaceutical, Mining, a LIMS will be able to automate your workflow processes right from the sample registration stage to the reporting stage.

LIMS are modular based, buy only what you need that will fit within your budget. Whether you have lots of instruments and want a module to help you minimize transcript errors and have an efficient laboratory that can input thousands of results at the click of a button, or a laboratory that has to generate hundreds of reports every week. A LIMS WILL make your laboratory more efficient and let you get on with what’s more important: analysing samples, generating more customers and updating policies and procedures.

Another thing to look at is Cloud Based LIMS so that you don’t need to worry about the purchase of additional servers, IT staff and back-ups.

To find out more about LIMS and what is offered, feel free to contact us at LTech Pty Ltd.

 

Hosted Solution

Lims1 has been a reliable software product for over 25 years with its easy and flexible features. At LTech we believe in truly understanding your needs and in creating products and solutions for superior lab management. Flexible LIMS for LTech means easy configuration by lab staff, user defined fields, flexible registration templates, intuitive interfaces and user designed reports.

In our pursuit of superior lab management, we now provide an alternative method of delivering Lims1. Apart from the traditional way where laboratories self-host Lims1 on their premises, LTech now also offers Lims1 software hosted on LTech’s own servers and provides Lims1 as Software as a Service. With this delivery structure, laboratories only need to pay a set monthly fee for access and usage of the software.

In this article, we are going to look into the advantages of Lims1 Hosted and what factors to consider in determining if Lims1 Hosted is the right choice for your laboratory.

 

Advantages

A Hosted solution allows LTech to act as one-stop-shop for Lims1 which means your IT overhead is lower for maintaining Lims1. Moreover, the Hosted structure allows for a more effective upgrade and internal maintenance, ensuring problem resolution to be optimised and handled without any delay. This total system maintenance, in turn, guarantees an improved customer service, business continuity, consistent and rapid responses.

The implementation of the software is easier, the laboratory does not need to go through the hassle of ensuring that servers and network hardware are available, not to mention the technical resources required to look after it. The laboratory just needs to arrange for devices (workstations, laptops or tablets) and connection to the Internet to access Lims1. This requires less initial capital to utilise a highly functional LIMS.

The price structure of monthly rate means that the cost is predictable, there is no big CAPEX surprises.

 

Factors to Consider for Hosted Solution

When a laboratory is considering Lims1 Hosted there are a few variables that need consideration apart from the normal laboratory LIMS requirements.

The laboratory needs to consider its Internet capability, as the hosted system will require an internet connection to operate. The connection needs to have reasonable bandwidth as well as have reliable up time.

It is important to know if the LIMS offered in Hosted environment has the same functionalities as the in house system. The Lims1 Hosted service uses exactly the same software that we distribute for in house deployment.  All upgrades are offered as per current practices.  The benefit is that upgrades can be provided as soon as you are ready; no waiting for IT to initiate a project or put you on a list.

Who owns the data. You do. Whilst the data is hosted on LTech’s servers, the data belongs to you. All databases are backed up nightly. If you require a copy, you only need to ask.

 

To conclude, Lims1 Hosted is a great alternative for labs that do not have the initial capital for their own servers or the software purchase. A hosted solution can provide a highly functional LIMS to labs often more quickly and with less upfront cost compared to the self-host purchase model. Labs need to assess their capability before purchase to understand how well the hosted solution integrates with their environment. All in all, Lims1 Hosted can provide Labs that traditionally could not afford LIMS the ability to have high functioning LIMS while they grow their business and accumulate capital.

Call LTech to organise an obligation free trial. You will be impressed.