Connecting People and Ideas to Improve the LIMS Experience
LIMS Cloud Deployment: Is your Data Secure?
Security breaches, malware, viruses, all common occurrences in today’s business environment. Data security a is serious matter. Exposure can have devastating consequences, both operationally and financially.
LIMS Delivers Traceability in Food Safety Testing
What is it? Traceability means a complete understanding of today’s complex food chain and testing at control points where contamination is likely to occur. Understanding the source of all raw ingredients, the CoA (Certificate of Analysis) report, other test results,...
Improving Field Data Availability with Mobile Technology
Mobile technology has made our lives easier in many ways. In addition to keeping us connected on a personal level, mobile applications have improved our professional lives by simplifying and streamlining tasks. This is evident in the analytical laboratory. An increase...
How LIMS Can Meet the Unique Needs of Cannabis Testing Labs
Cannabis is a controlled substance, subject to additional unique requirements for tracking samples from “seed to sale”. Regulatory oversight ensures that cannabis products are properly tested for potentially harmful contaminants as well as potency. With the help of a...
Why you Need a Needs Assessment for Success with LIMS
Your lab is busy! Processes are manual and paper-based. There’s regulatory compliance issues to contend with. You need to act to improve data quality. Like most lab managers in this situation, you are overwhelmed, and you are unsure how to start.
See Why Laboratories Love ExcelExpress
Spreadsheets and laboratory notebooks have their place, but are often not sufficient in today’s complex environment. If you need to scale operations or easily find sample information to meet regulatory compliance, manual processes won’t do. Although Excel is...
Service Pack offers New Features for Sample Master® Workstation
Service Pack offers New Features and Enhancements for Sample Master® Workstation v10.5.0 As part of our strong commitment to superior support, ATL delivers Service Packs to users to fix issues and add new features to our LIMS software. The latest Service Pack includes...
Creating Cost Efficiencies with LIMS
Successful businesses are concerned with maximizing resources, improving processes, and increasing profits. For laboratories, automation can help. ATL has led hundreds of clients through the implementation of LIMS to positively affect their bottom lines.
LIMS is Critical in Achieving Regulatory Compliance for the Laboratory
LIMS is Critical in Achieving Regulatory Compliance for the Laboratory Last month, ATL participated in Labroots’ Fourth Annual Cannabis Sciences Virtual Event. Our presentation, entitled Leveraging LIMS to Achieve Regulatory Compliance for the Cannabis Testing...
LIMS Implementation Best Practices, The ATL Advantage Plan
LIMS Implementation Best Practices, The ATL Advantage Plan Implementing a LIMS is a complex undertaking, involving a variety of participants and dozens of key tasks that must be successfully executed. As a result of implementing LIMS solutions in more than 600...
Use an ELN to Organize Data for your LIMS
What is an ELN?An Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) is much more than just a replacement for paper. It offers efficient data storage and retrieval of meta data, simplifies collaboration and data sharing, and supports compliance. Most ELNs are set up as cloud-based...
UPDATE YOUR OPERATING SYSTEMS!
In February of 2021, a U.S. water treatment facility was the target of a cyber-attack in which the attackers changed the chemical additive mix to the water treatment process. Fortunately, the operators quickly recognized the problem and adjusted the process to...
ATL Support: Much More than Issue Resolution
You need support for your LIMS when you have a problem. But at ATL, support means so much more. Implementing a LIMS involves a substantial investment of resources and time. Once it is up and running, it becomes an invaluable part of your organization—storing your...
Learning about LIMS: Why you should attend a virtual event
We are in the throes of planning our first tradeshow of the year—our best-attended, most anticipated event for 2021—PITTCON, for analytical lab professionals. Every year, we look forward to this event so much. We enjoy the personal interaction, meeting new people,...
Five advantages of SaaS Deployment for your LIMS
Laboratory professionals today are faced with many challenges, and need to do more with less. They are seeking ways to maximize their return on their LIMS software investments through accelerated deployments. Since COVID, the ability to work remotely has become even...
2020—A Year of Challenges and Achievements
While 2020 was a difficult year that many of us would like to forget, it was not without successes, wins, and achievements. We at ATL are grateful for our users, partners, and industry professionals we’ve connected with this past year. We are proud of the important...
LIMS LEARNING GONE VIRTUAL
After much consideration, as well as input from our customers, ATL’s BOOT CAMP went virtual for the first time ever! For more than 20 years ATL has offered onsite training courses providing a comprehensive, hands-on learning experience for customers using our LIMS...
Managing Multi-laboratory Projects with LIMS: DPR and Wastewater-based Epidemiology
What do you think of when you hear the terms, “global warming” or “climate change”? Melting polar caps? Rising oceans? More energy use for air conditioning? Withering farmlands? Lack of drinking water? Only about 3% of the earth’s water is usable, but 2.5% of that is...