As the new year commences, I’ve highlighted some of our top LIMS insights from 2024. Produced by leading industry experts, these pieces showcase a few key insights, trends, and challenges from this past year. From LES to Empower CDS, these pieces cover a wide range of LIMS topics that organizations should continue to think about in 2025. You can read more of our LIMS insights here. 

Top 5 LIMS Insights from 2024 

1. Supporting a LabVantage Implementation for a Gene Therapy Company 

The client’s legacy LIMS solution was not suited to meet the needs of this fast-growing organization, and a more robust commercial LIMS was needed to capture the increasing amounts of data, which spanned across bulk drug substances (BDS) and final products (FP), as well as research and development, including biobanking and development runs. Following a successful LIMS vendor selection, Clarkston Consulting was engaged to not only build master data and provide technical guidance for the new LIMS, but also to provide project management, training, and business alignment workshops to grow the client’s understanding of the new technology. LaToya Lee Jones and Tina Yauger break down this LabVantage implementation project and more in this case study. 

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2. Four Laboratory Execution System (LES) Best Practices in LabVantage LIMS 

Laboratory Execution Systems (LES) can be a valuable addition to an existing LabVantage Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). For it to be utilized to the fullest potential, however, there are some LES best practices that should be reviewed and applied. Liz Pegram explores these best practices in this piece. 

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3. How Empower CDS Enhances Laboratory Efficiency and Precision 

Within the realm of laboratory operations, efficiency, accuracy, and compliance are paramount in simplifying and maintaining product integrity. Empower is a software that labs can utilize to achieve this and more. At its core, Empower is a chromatography data system (CDS) transforming the way laboratories manage and analyze data. In this piece, LIMS expert Tina Yauger unpacks how Empower CDS enhances laboratory efficiency with precision by enabling the exploration of the intricacies of implementations and the strategic use of calculations within its interface. 

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4. Optimizing Your Lab Space for a LIMS Implementation 

In this series, Paul Allen breaks down how to prepare your lab for digital transformation, focusing on a few key areas to ensure success. From setting up your physical lab space to ensuring efficient inventory management to organizing your operational data, beginning sooner rather than later can save time, effort, and resources down the line. In this piece, Paul outlines the steps for setting up your physical lab and how to optimize your lab space for a LIMS implementation.   

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5. The Value of LIMS in Food, Beverage, and Personal Care 

LIMS is recognized as a component of smart manufacturing technology, which encompasses the incorporation of innovative technologies to enhance efficiency, quality, and adaptability in manufacturing operations, and it plays an important role in this by automating data management. In this post, Davida Basham and Tina Yauger examine the obstacles that the Food & Beverage and Personal Care industries must overcome and the ways in which a LIMS can help.  

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