The laboratory ecosystem spans a variety of sectors and industries, with multi-disciplinary tools and workflows deployed daily to ensure high throughput operations.
Emphasis has been put on the laboratory workspace in recent years to highlight it’s capabilities to accelerate automation, connection, collaboration, data decision making, sustainability and many other major themes in the sector.
Martel Instruments will continue to put efforts towards recognising these common themes and trends in the laboratory sector, keeping up attendance at market-leading events to ensure our products align with the future of the lab.
We will be attending the Lab Manager Leadership Summit in April 2025 as well as the London Labs Live show in May 2025. Both events focus on the capabilities that a well-connected and efficient lab can have to drive commercial decision making.
The laboratory facility is no longer just a space for innovation, research and operations. Instead, it has become a key driver in business. By putting your laboratory at the core of your operations you can not only feed its data and insights into wider departments, but you can also assess the effects that your business objectives have on the all important laboratory processes.
In this blog we will delve into the common expectations of a laboratory functioning in the 21st century as well as the expectations that will come in the future. Like minded professionals across the globe are continuing to focus on their laboratory and harnessing the power a lab has to drive your business.
Let’s discover the most important features of a lab and how these lead the way in team, project and research success:
Martel Instruments are the ideal partner to reshape your existing lab processes and pull focus on the areas where bridges can be built using our data transfer solutions.
It’s easy to fall into a traditional mindset that if something has worked previously, why change it? As a business, we recognise that this is the case for many independent laboratories as well as arms of larger scale businesses where the laboratory isn’t the focal point.
We’re here to draw attention to your processes and arguably, the most important feature of your lab, the equipment itself! The core focus on your data and the instruments that produce it is our passion. Wherever your data needs to be, we can help you get it there!
One large gap in the laboratory sector is the ability to step into the new digital age. Many laboratories can’t justify the capital expenditure of new state-of-the-art equipment and instrumentation; instead if their legacy equipment is validated and in working order, then it stays put.
The struggle to integrate old and new technologies is a challenge faced by many laboratories. This doesn’t mean that they should fall short of modernisation and enhanced workflows though, instead, you can get future ready with our innovative data transfer logger, Labbox powered by Vida.
We’ve worked hard to make digital transformation accessible. With this electronic data solution, you can begin to connect all your lab equipment (yes, even legacy instruments!) to any pre-existing or new LIMS/ELN.
Moving away from inconsistent data formats and manual workflows, Labbox will connect seamlessly and act as an interface between your digital systems and varying equipment/models.
With a strong foundation of data, flowing between daily equipment and central operating systems, you can unlock a whole new scope of digital transformations. As we look towards IoT, AI and cloud computing, Labbox powered by Vida is an ideal way to ensure no labs are left behind.
By activating a central data point through Labbox you can reap the benefits of shareability and transferability of data insights. Through an expansive range of records from differing points in the laboratory, and an automated way to sort and arrange, a lab can begin to form valuable insights.
Sharing such information across the wider business helps Lab Managers and Technicians to engage multiple departments as well as key stakeholders and clients. This collaboration can improve transparency with projects and business progression.
With a central system, accurate data logging, accessibility and efficient management of various data records, you can empower anyone in the lab to lead with confidence and vision.
The vision of smarter decision making, digital transformation and enhanced collaboration can seem like a fairytale. At Martel Instruments, we’re here to make this dream a reality. Your data. Where it needs to be. It’s that simple.
We’re experts in building solutions that are developed to meet the needs of your OEM equipment, taking it’s valuable data and inputting into your chosen data system.
Through custom built hardware and software we can configure according to your exact needs, ensuring that compliance and lab protocols are continued to be met.
Vida is the hardware that powers Labbox and many other customer-specific solutions, it is extremely adaptable to a variety of applications. From toxicology labs to testing labs and many more disciplines, our technology instantly records, stores and transfers lab data with 100% accuracy.
We provide the ability to make your systems talk to one another. If that’s not communication, then we don’t know what is! Giving your lab analysis equipment the chance to transport data directly to your LIMS or ELN facilitates wider communication across the business.
Fragmented systems, manual data handling and isolated devices can all risk a data silos. To tackle communication protocols and control data effectively, Labbox and Vida can unify all systems and harmonise their voices into effective wider communication.
Navigate compliance, traceability, downtime, errors and decision making with the voices of your equipment!
Operational efficiency has become a real focus for all labs, regardless of their size and sector. Human errors and manual processes are one of the largest factors that lead to inefficient workflows and resource intensive operations.
Causing a knock-on effect on sustainability ambitions, manual data handling is one key aspect that Martel Instruments can help you overcome in a bid to reduce the environmental impact of your lab.
Through an automated reporting and analysis function, you can work towards a greener, more efficient lab. Proper resource management and increased throughput are both advantages that are accessible through Labbox. In the long run, this will lead to cost savings, boosted productivity and business success.
The labs of the future are heavily reliant on industry trends and sustainability is a key focus on the horizon. In order to make the right decisions and implement the correct changes in your lab, you need to know exactly how it’s working collectively. We’re here to empower you to make an informed, data-backed sustainability decision that compliments the connectivity of your legacy, OEM and capital equipment with data systems.
The Lab Managers Leadership Summit is an event which has focussed primarily on the core features of strong leadership and how a well-connected laboratory can embody these qualities and empower your entire workforce.
An effective leader has three key responsibilities, to motivate, communicate and unite a team. These principles are true within a laboratory environment with many new and exciting tools and systems available to help you do so.
It’s here that the VIDA Labbox by Martel Instruments shines. This innovative data management tool ensures that you can properly utilise the data available from all capital equipment and lab processes.
A lab of the future can remove manual data entry aspects of lab technicians and managers using Labbox. Not only does this motivate your team by ensuring that resources are effectively used to the best of their expertise but removing mundane manual tasks can advance time management and improve speed of testing, analysis and research.
With Labbox you can convert to automated processing and ensure your equipment talks directly to one another, rather than using your employees as a translator. Time is spent in the right areas and data can empower your personnel to lead with the right systems in place to support them.
If you like to know more about how we can facilitate laboratory managers and their leadership agendas, visit us at the Lab Manager Leadership Summit this April and talk to our team.
Amongst the essential features of a forward-thinking laboratory we have already discussed, we will also be looking to address how Labbox and our other solutions can facilitate proper data management at the London Labs Live event in May, head to Booth 426 to start the conversation!
