How QBench Helped EO Science Lab Streamline Operations
Background
EO Science Lab is the purity testing and R&D laboratory for a major essential oils business. The business provides the purest, highest quality essential oils and products, including nutritional supplements and personal care products. EO Science Lab's supervisor didn't think a LIMS was within her budget and didn't know she could get a LIMS set up in only a few months – until she found QBench. Learn how QBench enabled a rapid implementation, automated the EO Science Lab, and amazed the lab supervisor with our ease of configuration, continuous product improvement, and robust support.
Prior Experience With 7 LIMS
The EO Lab Supervisor had used 7 different LIMS systems, including LabWare, LabVantage, Water’s NuGenesis, STARLIMS, IDBS E-Workbook, and two custom-built LIMS.
Challenge
Before QBench, the lab used spreadsheet manifests and different folders to track the statuses of samples and results. If a sample required multiple tests, results would be spread out among multiple instrument reports in multiple places. Answering a question about the results of a test was a 20-30min process.
Goals
- Digitize sample and data management to improve sample processing, data visibility, and data integrity.
- Allow internal stakeholders to see sample status and find results easily on their own and eliminate the lab supervisor having to dig through documents to answer one-off email requests for statuses and results reports.
How QBench Helped
- Implemented QBench spreadsheet worksheets for multiple multi-analyte assays, a file parser to pull data from instruments directly into the LIMS, label configurations for samples, tests, equipment, and storage locations, and set up a customer portal to allow their internal customers to access reports.
- Centralized all sample information, testing requests, and results.
- Created a secure, compliant, centralized application that’s updated and maintained by QBench.
Results
- Putting in QBench greatly increased efficiency, removed manual processes, removed duplication of work, and improved data integrity.
- The QBench Customer Portal allows internal users to access status updates and results whenever they needed it, making what used to take 20-30 minutes to complete now take under 2 minutes.
- The QBench team implemented the software in a few of months rather than the nine months to one year the lab supervisor had experienced when implementing other LIMS.
- QBench provided a better experience than 7 other LIMS. The lab supervisor preferred QBench’s ease of use, ease of configuration, and fast implementation.
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