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Improving efficiency. Optimizing resources. Increasing instrument uptime. These goals may seem unreachable amidst hectic days in the lab, but you don’t have to make the journey—or even identify the pathway—on your own. With CrossLab Enterprise Services, your goals become our goals. Our asset management, compliance, operational, and digital capabilities help you identify the most promising developments, implement industry-leading processes, and stay ready for changing regulations. So, you can outpace your competitors and become a benchmark among your peers.
In this Learning Café, you’ll discover what it takes to begin and complete your journey to lab excellence.
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Asset Management
Think that asset management just means keeping your instruments in good working condition? To advance your capabilities and outpace your rivals, you need to think wider and deeper. You also need to consider fleet utilization monitoring, lab-wide strategic sourcing, instrument acquisition strategies, and life-cycle management. A comprehensive asset management program can help you achieve the consistency and flexibility you need to stay productive. And, it allows your scientists to focus on their critical science.
Discover strategies for your lab, and learn how to balance productivity and risk.
When you have confidence that your laboratory is compliant, you can focus on what matters most: your science. Regulatory requirements have key aspects that are the same worldwide, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry where data integrity is a growing area of focus. In particular, your analytical instruments must be qualified, and software must be validated for its intended use. After that, you need to be able to prove that compliance has been maintained through periodic qualification. How your lab addresses these issues can simplify audit preparation and reduce regulatory risk.
Designing workflows. Training new hires. Maintaining instruments. Balancing the challenge of maintaining throughput while facing limited time and resources.
When it comes to lab operations, your work can feel as if it never ends. Fortunately, by partnering with an industry leader, you can transform your challenges into opportunities and gain actionable insights across people, equipment, and consumables. Advancing your team’s capabilities through education, relying on experts to coordinate lab relocations, and managing resource allocation all allow you to focus more on the critical science.
Elevate your operations capabilities into a strategic strength.
Increasing instrument productivity can assist you in advancing your lab. More fact-based information obtained in an automated flow allows you to make confident instrument purchasing, maintenance, and scheduling decisions. It’s time to incorporate the Internet of Things (IoT) into your day-to-day operations—and gain a better understanding of your lab.
Your lab. Your goals. Your journey can start right now.
Asset management, compliance, advancing operations, and enabling digital capability may feel as if they require separate activity streams. But they are all interrelated and contribute toward one goal: helping your lab reach new levels of performance and efficiency by simplifying, optimizing, and transforming processes. So, you can focus on the science.
Want to better understand how these aspects can connect, and what you may need for analytical and business success? Just answer these three quick questions. To keep gaining new ideas, modify your answers and re-use this tool as often as you like.
My responsibilities are focused on:
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Procurement
Lab management
Operations management
I have a key goal to:
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Optimize use of my assets
Optimize my service model
Reduce compliance risk
Balance OpEx and CapEx
I am interested in learning about:
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Measuring asset utilization
Leveraging connected technologies to improve lab performance
Harmonized paperless qualification across the Lab
Accelerating instrument productive use (CSV, Education, etc.)
Go beyond scientific outcomes and learn why you need to start running your lab like a business.
Advance your lab operation and productivity by taking a data-driven approach to asset management.
Take the mystery out of Computer System Validation, risk assessment, and current regulations.
Optimize your equipment and practices on the way to peak efficiency and operational excellence.
Discover strategies for overcoming laboratory disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Investigate current and future trends surrounding the shift toward a data-intelligence paradigm.
Find out how Alnylam Pharmaceutical moved 1,000+ assets across nine labs—on time and under budget.