Why does the lab need LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System)?

With the rapid development of laboratories in recent years, more and more laboratories are beginning to want to understand LIMS. Someone may ask, when there was no laboratory without LIMS before, can the work not work normally? Others will say that the company already has OA, ERP, and is it necessary to have LIMS? Others said that the instrument purchased by the company already has data processing functions, and does not require LIMS.

In response to these questions and opinions, we have sorted out some of the problems that the lab often encounters for discussion.

Several problems often encountered in the laboratory:

· Information is not interoperable, resources are not shared

Information interoperability is very important for any working group, especially for laboratories. However, traditional laboratories do not have perfect resource management methods. Many of the information is only disorderly stacked, which causes great troubles for the development of laboratory work.

By establishing lims, data sharing can be realized, such as the sharing of raw material data, thereby providing basic support data for raw material purchasers, thereby effectively ensuring basic support data, thereby effectively ensuring the timeliness of raw material supply. At the same time, through data sharing, it is possible to avoid repeated inspections of the same batch of raw materials in different laboratories, and only need to sample key items, which can greatly save the analysis cost and improve work efficiency.

·Manual processing of analytical data

The experimental data requires that accuracy, truth, and error be reduced, and then errors in the manual data entry will inevitably occur.

The core of Lims is to standardize the workflow of sample analysis, monitor and manage every aspect of sample analysis, reduce the analysis error caused by human factors, improve the quality of sample analysis and the efficiency of personnel. At the same time, it also helps to establish a complete quality assurance system in the laboratory, effectively manage and control the factors affecting the laboratory quality assurance system, affect the quality of the laboratory, and strictly regulate the laboratory's operational procedures. .

· Hard to trace data

Data traceability is the basic requirement of ISO/IEC17025 for laboratories. Traditional laboratories do not have a complete traceability system. They often find the cause of mistakes after discovering data errors, resulting in wasted manpower, material resources, and slow work. Process .

Lims' rigorous operational procedures provide an effective guarantee for improving the traceability of analytical data. Using lims, you can query the experimental workers, the methods used, the experimental procedures, the experimental reviewers, the instruments used, the experimental results, the abnormalities encountered in the experiments, and the solutions to a certain sample. Researchers can use lims' data traceability function to learn from the experience and reduce detours.

Lims uses its precise data logging capabilities to manage the entire lab's information, and any information the lab wants to know can be quickly identified and used. As a product of the informationization of the great era, lims is a very important tool and work force for the laboratory, and the information within its coverage is “not spared”.

With the standardized management of laboratories, LIMS will be more and more applied to the information management of laboratories. LIMS is difficult to standardize because laboratories in different industries have different requirements for LIMS, and even laboratories in the same industry have different needs for LIMS due to work processes or other reasons. However, the price of LIMS on the market is different, which makes it more difficult for the purchase of laboratory personnel.

In response to this situation, it is recommended that all laboratory colleagues can compare and compare according to their own situation (budget, demand, etc.), shop around, and some have free trials, and the lab can also try it first to deepen the understanding of LIIMS. Finally, I wish you all the best to find the right LIMS, and really improve your work efficiency!

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