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The following materials were originally developed by Delphinus. We are in the process of transferring copyrights where needed/appropriate to the ILA.

Manager's Survival Guide to Engineering Laboratory Automation

Successful laboratory automation systems are built on a foundation of planning. Too often laboratory automation is viewed in terms of technologies and products, the things people use to implement projects. What is overlooked is the planning that is needed on a management level [often senior management] to provide a basis for the successful development of laboratory automation systems.

Management's Role in Laboratory Automation: This brief data sheet describes the role management should take in defining the guideline for laboratory automation projects. The purpose of these guidelines - which together with workflow process models comprise a Laboratory Automation Architecture - is to ensure that individual automation projects have a basic template for integration and meet standards that foster good project management practices.

Are You a Laboratory Automation Engineer?: This is an expanded version of the 8th most downloaded JALA article in 2006.
Introduction: The technology and techniques used when automating laboratory activities have been developed and documented for more than 40 years. Work performed under the subject of "laboratory automation" has progressed from pioneering achievements in data acquisition and instrument control to multi-component, fully integrated systems resembling manufacturing plants. If the field is to move forward, we need to organize the practices of those applying automation and computing technologies to laboratory activities, and to formulate a course of study. This JALA Guest Editorial seeks to initiate a dialog on the definition and development of the field of " Laboratory Automation Engineering "

What is an LAE approach to laboratory automation?

One view of a working laboratory is that it is a place where people work at different tasks to achieve a goal [test results, running experiments, evaluating data, etc.]. From the standpoint of Laboratory Automation Engineering, a laboratory is a place where processes are used to carry out peoples work and those processes can be integrated into systems that can improve:

a researchers ability to understand the results of an experiment and
plan the next step in a discovery process,
a technician’s ability to evaluate test results and release products for shipment,
a scientists understanding of data integrated from multiple sensors and data sources.