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  • Predicting outcomes with what-if scenario analysis. (Woman with a backpack comes to a crossroads.)
    - by Adam Lester-George

    Into the multiverse: predicting lab outcomes with Binocs ‘what-if’ scenario analysis

    Let's explore how what-if scenario analysis (WISA) can be used to help predict outcomes and mitigate risk in pharma capacity planning.
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  • Man uses a touch screen of a digital laboratory planning Gantt chart
    - by Adam Lester-George

    Gantt: optimizing pre-clinical delivery for R&D labs

    Exploring the use of project management tools for laboratory planning—Gantt charts to optimize pre-clinical delivery for R&D labs.
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    - by Adam Lester-George

    Critical Chain Analysis: how project management concepts influence resource planning

    Project management concepts are ubiquitous in modern planning, including in resource capacity planning systems. In this article, Adam Lester-George explores critical path analysis and critical chain analysis, and their...
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  • A scientist in a white lab coat sits in front of a high-tech heads-up display, illustrative of digital lean techniques being used in labs
    - by Adam Lester-George

    Digital lean labs: taking the next step with Binocs

    Most lab teams are familiar with standard lean principles but what about DIGITAL lean? Learn what you need to know about digital lean labs!
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  • A photo of an HPLC stack to illustrate the need for analytical method validation processes and accompanying software
    - by Adam Lester-George

    Analytical Method Validation: developing your mission control center with Binocs

    Set up your lab’s “mission control center” using the Binocs resource management system as a form of analytical method validation software!
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  • - by Adam Lester-George

    Hitching a horse to your Ferrari: Binocs and the risks of retaining legacy systems

    Why waste money making new IT systems back compatible with your legacy lab planning solution? Update your planning with futureproof software!
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  • Process validation graphic
    - by Adam Lester-George

    Analytical Method Validation: it’s not brain surgery (but it might be rocket science)

    What does your lab's analytical method validation plans have in common with SpaceX? We explain this complex topic with an unexpected analogy!
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  • How do you make your business case for lab automation? (Robotic arm places a vial into a tray.)
    - by Mathias Lasoen

    Lab Automation: how to make your business case?

    In 2008,  a survey on laboratory automation concluded that most lab workers (88%) believed they would rely on laboratory automation in the future. Yet it’s 2021, and 72% of...
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  • Resource Scheduling: How much Lab automation is Too Much? (Robot and human hands holding gears.)
    - by Adam Lester-George

    Resource Scheduling: how much lab automation is too much?

    Would you like your lab to be 100% automated? Not so fast! First, let’s take a closer look at lab automation and ask: how much is too much?
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