Management itself is a difficult task but when it comes to managing a Laboratory it becomes more breathtaking. There’s a list of diversified tasks which includes directing experiments, analyzing data, managing conflicts, writing papers/reports. Sometimes it’s so obvious that you find yourself also caught up in other administrative tasks, such as ordering reagents, managing your lab workflow so everything can run more smoothly.
In this article in Nature, they revise the importance of time management, maintaining good organization, and communication in the lab to better collaborate and enhance productivity: “A proper functioning lab is a productive lab”. And a key to being well-functioning is proper organization and management of every aspect of the lab.
Although this seems compulsory on paper, the daily life routine in the lab can be different. Do the following situations sound familiar to you?
Any of your members in the lab or have you ever got stuck for minutes or even hours trying to find the correct protocol, samples, reagents, or any product needed to run your analysis?
The experiment is needed to be done by someone only to discover on the day that a reagent is missing?
The reagent you have asked for two weeks ago has not been ordered. But a few moments later discover that it was ordered, but someone has stored it in a different place!
You were asked to order the same reagent twice because members of the lab did not know where the previous one was?
If you answer yes to any of the above questions, it is time to think about implementing a lab management software to support you in these daily tasks and to better keep track of your “lab wheels” to keep it rolling enhancing your productivity while also reducing costs and above all spend less time in these kinds of tasks!
Lis365 is an all-in-one lab Information system, giving you the best quality/price ratio on the market.
How can Lis365 help in your lab management?
Lis365 can help you in many ways following is the scenario for your better understanding:
For example, a staff member that is using Lis365, when looking for a primer, instead of chasing the lab manager to ask where it is, can go into the Lis365 inventory of his lab, type the name of the primer, and see the details of the record with the storage location. That’s it! One simple search to find information and storage details. You can likewise track down the rundown of reagents with hazard and wellbeing data. With only a single tick you can submit them to the request list. The lab chief or PI will get ready that things are on the request list and can approve the buy.
The individual in control can alter the Purchase Orders straightforwardly in Lis365 or commodity the rundown to ship off the legitimate division. At the point when the arranged things show up in your lab, you can stamp them as conveyed with the clump or part number, lapse date, and even print the standardized identification names for your item if you need to. Lis365 gives a solitary spot where you can bring together your solicitations as indicated by your subsequent financial plan and the sky is the limit from there! You monitor everything from the start as far as possible, from buy involving your provisions in a single Software. Lis365 provides a readily available inventory to anyone in your lab. You can now easily communicate and collaborate with your team, spending less time on routine tasks and spending more time on science!