The Importance of Digital Lab Platforms and Why Bioprocessing Facilities Need to Adapt Them with Live Q&A

Imagine, all of your lab work, your experimental data, your sample information and lineage tracing, your protocols and inventory management tools, all living on one, cohesive platform. What if you never had to worry about finding that long-lost file from 15 years ago or even had reports readily available at your fingertips for when the FDA shows up at your door? Sounds great right!? With digital lab platforms, you’ll have all the tools necessary to remain organized and compliant in any bioprocessing facility. 

There are many reasons to switch over to a digital lab platform, but here are 4 key points to highlight:

1. Centrality - Having a centralized, cloud-based location for all data related to your sample inventory and project/experiment results, making collaboration and archived information recall easier within your lab space. You can even integrate with other software and hardware in the lab!

2. Compliancy - Remain FDA compliant by automating workflows (electronic batch records, protocols, equipment management), removing human elements (mistakes), viewing/downloading audit trail repositories, assigning permission-based roles, data storage and redundancy backups, electronic witness signatures, etc.

3. Security - How secure is your data actually? Does your current system offer the following: ISO-27001 certification, GXP compliance, 21CFR Part 11 compliance, multi-server architecture, high availability installations, encrypted networks, on-site security, dedicated network security team, third-party penetration tests, redundancy and backups, disaster recovery procedures, single sign-on, two-factor authentication, and secure credential storage?

4. Efficiency - Make your lives easier by saving time and money! No more wasted efforts searching for lost data or documents, misplacing samples, stressing over compliance regulations, organizing your research, performing inventory, and so on and so forth. This is the end goal!

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify benefits of cloud based storage and how to centralize your data management system.

2. Discuss how to deal with compliance and security matters in the laboratory.

3. Discuss efficiency gains by means of digitalization and standardization.