Category Archives: Digital Transformation

Press Release: PLA® Conference 2024 EUROPE

Embrace your Digital Ecosystem for seamless digital processes in your Lab. Discussions at the 11th edition of the Paperless Lab Academy® Conference Europe The PLA® Conference is pleased to announce its 11th European edition, which will take place on 12 and 13 March 2024 in the city of Milan, Italy, at the Hotel Meliá Milano. The conference is the place to be for anyone thinking of implementing, consolidating, integrating, simplifying digital processes in their labs, and improving data-driven decisions. Data, Processes, People, Technology, and Compliance Read More...

Digital Transformation Journey in a growing pharmaceutical Italian company

When a company like Zeta Farmaceutici Group decides to be part of the industry 4.0 revolution, the journey starts from looking objectively, internally at the actual situation. The business process review identifies the key priorities for digitisation and defines process improvement plan to be implemented along the way. Zeta Farmaceutici Group is an Italian industrial business, comprising a group of companies, specialised in the development, production and distribution of medicines, medical devices, cosmetics, dietary supplements, and biocides. Zeta manufactures and Read More...

AGQ Labs moves its data driven laboratories strategy to the next level

AGQ Labs digital transformation strategy aims for laboratory 4.0 AGQ Labs is a chemical technological center, with 25 years of experience. It offers solutions and services for agri-food, environmental, industrial, and mining sectors. All Laboratories are accredited under ISO17025 and equipped with the most advanced technology. They specialise in developing robust and competitive analytical methods for each of every market they serve, along with strong focus on the corresponding local and international compliances requirements. AGQ labs chooses NL42 to reach next level Read More...

Interview with our Paperless Lab Academy Organiser

Rizwan Chaudhrey interview with Isabel Muñoz Willery While the first Paperless Lab Academy® in India is about to get launched by December 1-3, 2020, Rizwan Chaudhrey at RSK Solutions discusses about the future of paperless labs with  Isabel Muñoz Willery Ph.D,  founder  and Co-Owner at NL42 Consulting and Organiser of the Paperless Lab Academy®  The market today offers multiple solutions for the laboratories whether they dedicate to basic research, new molecules discovery or operate under GMP regulations as quality control in a manufacturing Read More...

6 Factors for a successful Implementation  of a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)

Have you implemented a Laboratory Information Management Solution without really benefiting from all its capabilities? Unfortunately, it is frequent to discover that the Laboratory Information Management Solution implemented in a site is not providing all the resources and insights that the laboratory and its stakeholders would benefit from. Too many factors influence the success of a system implementation, irrespective of the LIMS providers, the type of lab or the size. Too often the project gets delayed. Too often phase 2 never Read More...

How to be sure that your Data Integrity project has fully covered your eData LifeCycle?

The integrity of your Data along their lifecycle This is not another data integrity article, yet this is about demonstrating to auditors that you do have it all right and under control. So we’d like to highlight the importance of assessing the complete life cycle of your data and managing it for complete compliance to data integrity requirements. We’ve all attended the thousand trainings, webinars and presentation about Data Integrity recommendations and guidelines. We know by heart the ALCOA definition and Read More...

Data Integrity, Company Integrity: a Management Commitment

Thousands of documents and articles have been written about Data Integrity. You probably have already attended several presentations and webinars introducing the concept, repeating incessantly the list of data integrity guidelines published by the regulatory bodies and showing you frightening summaries of warning letters. Data integrity is not a new trend You know that data integrity is not a new concept. You know of multiple examples not even related to the pharma industries that had a strong impact in the society. Read More...

Practical session for your laboratory digital transformation project

SETTING THE STAGE FOR YOUR  PAPERLESS LABORATORY TRANSFORMATION [Monday, 8th April 2019 – 14:00-18:00 CET] Gran Hotel Dino, Baveno, Lake Maggiore, Italy  The Paperless Lab Academy 2019 is now up and running and registrations are open. We’re glad to inform you that we are offering, on the pre-congress day, a special training composed of multiple practical sessions for setting the stage for your paperless laboratory transformation. Roberto Castelnovo will speak about how to design the most adequate digital transformation strategy for your Read More...

Setting the stage for a paperless laboratory

The intelligent analytical laboratory is becoming reality: an automated laboratory where data, methods and processes are seamlessly shared between software applications and analytical instruments. The ultimate goal for a digitalized laboratory is to leverage the power of the data and provide useful information, business intelligence for decision makers sitting at any step of the data life cycle. Fact is that rarely the laboratory reaches the point to feel completely automated and free of paper processes. For a reason or Read More...

Selection Process II: 5 steps in the selection of a LIMS

As mentioned in our previous article about How to select a LIMS, it is highly recommended traveling the path to reduce the emotional part of the purchase and select the right tool with the end in mind. These are the 5 steps to minimize the risk of failure in selecting a digital tool for your laboratory processes. 5 steps to select your data management solution In this article, we start with the assumption that you have walked your way to define Read More...