How Does a LIMS Work, and What Makes an Implementation Fail?
A LIMS is not hard to buy and it is hard to implement. The difference is a short list of decisions that get made badly, early, and quietly, long before anyone signs a contract.
How does a LIMS work? It makes the sample the unit of record. Every aliquot, transfer, method, instrument reading and approval attaches to that sample as a time-stamped entry, so any result can be reconstructed years later. How well it works depends on four decisions made before purchase, not on the software.
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