Automation Friendly Labware
Labware is one of the most crucial components that props up a solid lab automation system because everything must rely on the consistency...
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- Aug 5, 2020
- 3 min
How to Sell a Lab Automation Project to Management
Automation can greatly increase throughput and precision of lab automation tasks, but it can also lead to a lot of problems if approached...
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- Aug 4, 2020
- 9 min
Useful Windows Scripting Tools for Lab Automation
Batch scripting provides the classic command prompt (cmd) control easy enough for anyone to get started with. This is a great way to...
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- Aug 3, 2020
- 3 min
Device Error Handling in the Lab Environment
You certainly can't expect automation devices to work every time. Once you get a system dialed in, they have impressive repeatability,...
UnlaboredLab
- Aug 2, 2020
- 3 min
Closing the Loop on Lab Automation - Machines Running Machines
Sounds tricky right? We accomplished this infrastructure by developing custom software tools. The different platforms described below...
UnlaboredLab
- Aug 1, 2020
- 4 min
Developing and Managing Lab Automation Projects
Managing automation projects is a lot like managing other IT projects.. not something that your average scientist has done a lot of. So...
UnlaboredLab
- Jul 26, 2020
- 5 min
Controlling Lab Devices Through the Network
Most lab automation devices these days communicate through ethernet port, with some still using methods like USB. In order to integrate...
UnlaboredLab
- Jul 25, 2020
- 4 min
The Worklist - Providing Lab Automation Instruments Instructions to Carry Out Experiments
There are many ways to create a protocol for controlling lab automation instruments, but the strategy of the worklist is currently how...
UnlaboredLab
- Jul 12, 2020
- 3 min
Software Development for Non-Engineers
How does someone without a software engineering background go about developing software? The answer is pretty simple, it requires vision...
UnlaboredLab
- Jul 11, 2020
- 1 min
Automated Compound Management for Drug Discovery
Most pharmaceutical R&D groups have a centralized compound management group, freeing up the other chemist and biologists jobs to create...
UnlaboredLab
- Jun 28, 2020
- 6 min
Automation Scripting for Scientists - How to Get Your Feet Wet with Programming in the Lab
Why would a scientist learn programming? Do you like math? Do you like strategy games or puzzles by chance? My taste for these things...
UnlaboredLab
- Jun 27, 2020
- 4 min
Automated Compound Synthesis in Drug Discovery
Traditional early drug discovery processes are slow, and often the most costly part of the drug discovery process. I work in a group that...
UnlaboredLab
- Jun 21, 2020
- 3 min
Integrating Analytical Chemistry Equipment into Lab Automation Systems
These days, many labs are using the mass spectrometer (MS) as a detector for early stage screening viability of new drugs. This is...
UnlaboredLab
- Jun 18, 2020
- 5 min
What Business School Teaches Us About IT Projects
So what did I learn in my business classes about IT projects anyway? A lot actually. In his famous paper, IT Doesn’t Matter, Nicholas...
UnlaboredLab
- Jun 14, 2020
- 4 min
Core Technology in the Lab of the Future
Intuitive, automated, software-driven. The lab of the future empowers scientists for new discovery, and frees up their time to focus on...
UnlaboredLab
- Jun 13, 2020
- 3 min
Does Lab Automation Take Scientist Jobs?
We all here about how automation is taking away jobs in industries around the world. In pharmaceutical R&D settings, it’ may be an...
UnlaboredLab
- Jun 7, 2020
- 5 min
The Real Value of Lab Automation
Why scientists should embrace laboratory automation like our lives depend on it If you are a scientist in the pharmaceutical industry,...
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