Lab Ops Reality, by newLab®
An inside look at
how R&D labs really operate.
What teams are doing about equipment, scheduling, and maintenance inside large R&D organizations. What we see across the industry, and our read on the latest technology and AI in the lab.
What you get
Six kinds of insight we write about.
From live deployments
What R&D operations teams are doing about equipment, scheduling, maintenance and shared services, from inside live deployments.
The conference read
What was claimed on stage, against what is genuinely deployed in labs.
Operational breakdowns you can apply
The problems that show up everywhere: equipment data, service requests, vendor maintenance, multi-site booking.
The IT view
Platform consolidation, ServiceNow-native architecture, and where LIMS and ELN stop.
AI, honestly
An honest read on AI in the lab, including what it requires operationally before it works at all.
Worth your time
The outside research and industry work we think is worth reading, with our own take on it.
Who it's for
Written for the people who run R&D operations.
IT Directors and enterprise architects
Responsible for R&D systems.
Lab operations and equipment managers
Running multi-site facilities.
R&D operations leadership
Carrying a productivity or cost mandate.
Anyone who has been asked
How much lab equipment the organization owns, and could not answer that day.
Most of the material comes from pharma and biotech. It applies to any R&D environment running shared equipment at scale: chemicals, food science, materials, contract research and manufacturing, and research institutes.
Why it's worth reading
The material comes from live deployments.
newLab® is inside multi-site R&D organizations most weeks: implementations, site visits, and the conversations that happen once the demo is over. Plus the conferences where this industry talks to itself. Very little of that gets published anywhere.
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