Digital Transformation of the Laboratory

Part I: Why So Many Digitalization and Digital Transformation Projects Fail and How This Can Be Avoided According to the data, approximately 70% of digital transformation projects fail. In the lecture, we will take a closer look at the most common reasons for failure. We will discuss how can we anticipate the pitfalls and how to avoid them. During the lecture, several use-cases will be presented that either succeeded with their digitalization projects or failed. Part II: Centering Consumables and Reagents in Customers’ Awareness Today’s highly regulated analytical and research laboratories face multiple challenges: minimizing waste of materials and motion, reducing sunken costs, boosting efficiency and productivity, improving safety and quality, and meeting greater regulatory compliance demands than ever. And they must do so in an age of remote work and limited access. Digital transformation is key to meeting these challenges head-on. But lab technologies lag far behind those in our personal lives when it comes to data management. Repetitive manual tasks prone to human error create data integrity issues, quality risks, productivity sinks, and greater waste in the vast majority of labs. These problems occur at numerous weak points in the material lifecycle. Merck has brought its experience in solving the toughest problems in life science to bear by creating the LANEXO® Lab Inventory, Safety and Compliance Management System. LANEXO® System can create inventory efficiencies, simplify compliance, and digitize paper trails for highly regulated labs. Simple to implement, set up, and integrate into existing workflows, with an intuitive, user-friendly application, the LANEXO® System can drastically slash the time needed to manage inventory and individual consumables. The result is dramatically better numbers in resources, costs, and sales. What’s more, LANEXO® System can help futureproof labs. A 2020 McKinsey study found that companies that invest in innovation throughout crises like COVID-19 outperform their peers post-crisis. This webinar will explain how LANEXO® System can help customers escape their cumbersome current data systems, meet today’s challenges, and free their scientists and researchers to focus on science.