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NEWS
PEOPLE
Automated data
l Dr Frank Brown, senior vice
president and chief science
officer at Accelrys, has been
appointed to the board of
capture ups efficiency
directors at the BioIT Alliance,
a group of organisations
working together to realise
the potential of personalised
medicine.
at environmental lab
l Following LabVantage’s
acquisition of the SQL*LImS
business from Life
M.J. Reider, an environmental LabCore will enable us to delivery of invoices and reports
Technologies, Pat Pijanowski,
testing laboratory that performs greatly improve efficiency and to customers via email.
former general manager of
the SQL*LImS business, has
analytical testing services provide our customers with Mark Ferrero, CEO of
joined LabVantage as its chief
throughout North America, a greater capacity of quality P-Wave, stated: ‘We are
operating officer. has implemented an automated testing services.’ excited to deliver this solution
l OCF, the UK HPC integrator,
data capture system to The initial implementation to M.J. Reider as it will have
has appointed former SGI improve laboratory efficiency. of LabCore will automate an immediate impact on its
and ClusterVision sales
LabCore from P-Wave will the capture of raw data from laboratory efficiency and
specialist Georgina Ellis
automate business processes a number of instruments profitability by saving many
as sales executive, with a
primary focus on maintaining
and the handling of data and in the metals and organics hours of tedious manual labour
and growing OCF’s presence
documents at its Reading, PA, departments and allow analysts while improving accuracy. Its
in the academic research US location. to quickly review, edit and laboratory technicians can
community
According to Barbara Coyle, automate the export of this spend time on more revenue
l Symyx has expanded its
president of M.J. Reider: data into their Laboratory generating activities and
European operation with
‘Automating our data and Information Management can improve turnaround on
several new appointments,
including the promotion
document collection and System (LIMS). LabCore receivables by automating
of Julie Page to head the
storage from various laboratory will also enable M.J. Reider the delivery of invoices to
European office. instruments and systems using to automate the creation and customers.’
Brazilian quality control
IN BRIEF
l Granta Design, the
materials information
company selects LIMS
technology expert, and
Ceram, a materials
technology company, have
announced that Ceram
LA Falcão Bauer, a Brazilian and report generation for Christiano motta, IT
will use Granta software
provider of services for Falcão Bauer’s customers. coordinator for Falcão Bauer, to extend its services in
instrument calibration and The implementation project said: ‘The decision to invest in a
materials testing, analysis
quality control, has selected will also include integration standardised LImS solution that
and consultancy.
Samplemanager LImS for use in of Thermo Scientific can be used throughout Falcão
its laboratories. Samplemanager LImS with a Bauer’s operations enables us to
As part of a 12-month range of laboratory instruments, continue to develop our service
Web-exclusive
project, Falcão Bauer will including chromatography offering to existing and future
neWs features
integrate Thermo Scientific data systems (CDS) and ICP customers. Thermo Scientific
noW online
Samplemanager LImS with its analytical instruments. The Samplemanager LImS will help
l Interview with LabVantage
NewAge enterprise resource system will improve productivity us to streamline Falcão Bauer’s
CEO on SQL*LImS
planning (ERP) system across and increase accuracy in operations and improve the
acquisition
its 16 laboratories in Brazil. the company’s laboratories, automation of the laboratory
l Sandia sees data
The LImS implementation will enhancing efficiency and the functions, resulting in increased
management challenges
automate the process from quality of service provided by productivity and enhanced data
spiral
sample collection to results Falcão Bauer. sharing benefits.’
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