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Achieving the LIMS Promise

What application convergence means to the future of laboratory automation

Wed, 05/26/2010 - 06:30
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In the classic Aesop fable, “The Fox and the Grapes,” a fox desires some grapes hanging high overhead. When he is unable to come up with a way to reach them, he convinces himself that the grapes are probably sour and therefore not desirable anyway. “Sour grapes” has become an idiomatic expression to convey simply the universal human condition of feeling disdain for something that one could not attain.

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During the past decade working with life sciences companies, we have seen our fair share of “sour grapes” applied to quality systems and, more specifically, laboratory automation. Although most life sciences and consumer health care companies are in a position to reap significant benefits through process improvements coupled with automation of their laboratories, the cost, resource requirements, and limited flexibility of their systems have remained largely unreachable and therefore, perceived as “sour.”

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Submitted by Tadahiro Kurita on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 20:48

Good article

Hello,

I'm a manager of system integrater and now in charge of laboratory information system integration.

I've just found your article today. It was amazing that your opinion was the same with us.

I would like to know how do you feel the industry movement after you wrote this.

The industry under regulation moves slower than the other industry such as discrete business.

Thanks,

Tadahiro Kurita

Japan

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