What are the benefits of LIMS Software?
Before you can understand the reason behind the development of LIMS, you have to understand what LIMS stands for: Laboratory Information Management Systems. Created to help manage laboratory information, they are usually implemented by analytical labs. In the past, LIMS were developed for particular types of labs, but because of the laboratories environment, LIMS require customization to meet individual laboratory’s requirements. Do to the time and money required to customize pre-packaged software or pay programmers to create a unique system, a tailored solution is recommended. LIMS benefits include: • Ability to trace samples as they go through analysis. • Histograms and other charts show test results as compared to normal or target values. • Employee tracking to see how many samples each employee is able to process. • Direct connection to measurement and analysis equipment to gather data. • Store images and other files with each sample or group of samples for easy access. • FIFO capa
