Category Archives: IT Strategy

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...

Are your Data Management Policies supporting the GXP compliance?

Understanding the criticality of setting Master Data and Policies Your Data lifecycle extends across departments and its governance requires good practices to be followed. Understanding the criticality’s of setting common Master Data and policies is very important and extended educational efforts should be considered at corporate level. When implementing digital solutions for quality processes, GxP activities, the data management policies should apply to any computer software’s involved, all along the data lifecycle, data workflows and related processes, with particular attention to 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...

The Laboratory of the Industry 4.0

Organizing an event like the Paperless Lab Academy requires strong project management skills, execution at its best and a lot of energy. However, the very best part of it is the outstanding opportunities to engage with so many active members of the lab informatics industry and its final users. While discussing the content of their presentation or workshop for the #PLA2019 agenda, we definitely enjoy discovering people analysis on their today pains and their vision of the lab of the Read More...

Discover how to empower your eData Life Cycle

Paperless Lab Academy 2018 central theme: ” Empowering your eData Life Cycle: eConnect, eManage, eDecide, eArchive” The 6th edition of the Paperless Lab Academy will be held in Italy at the Lake Maggiore, march 20/21 2018 NL42 is glad to confirm the full support of more than 20 sponsors, from key leaders of the lab informatics market to brand new comer with attractive and innovative solutions ready to challenge with newest technologies. The industry has generated interesting news in the last months. Read More...

NL42 Consulting takes on Paperless Lab Academy management

– PRESS RELEASE – Paperless Lab Academy (PLA), Europe’s leading laboratory automation event, brings partners and attendees together in an environment designed to promote mutual interaction and exchange of views during plenary sessions and topic-focused workshops. The fifth edition of the two-day event, organized by Industrial Lab Automation and NL42 Consulting took place from 4 to 5 April 2017 in Barcelona (Spain) under the theme of 2020 Roadmap for digital convergence. The aim of this edition was finding effective ways to transform Read More...

Laboratory data management is a responsibility of great impact across the company It implies not only the management of the workflow in the laboratory itself. Data collection begins at the moment of samples reception, follows with the decision related to the analysis to be executed (analyst, Standard Operating Procedures, customer priorities…) and ends with the delivery of the final report and invoicing. For computer experts it should be easy to design such informatics solutions. If it were not that each Read More...