Better Storage Management

Assess and Improve Sample Management

Did you know that ~20% of research laboratory space is often taken up by underutilized freezers and refrigerators? Work with the material management experts at Azenta to get an assessment of your organization's cold storage infrastructure and sample management practices followed by delivery of a summary report.

Better Storage Management is a program that provides greater visibility into your research data and workflow and results in an improved, integrated material management solution that supports your organization's goals. Having a comprehensive and well-organized solution enables efficient research and development processes, saves time and money, reduces carbon emissions, and allows better collaboration.

To get an idea of the savings potentially available at your site, use the Cold Storage Savings Calculator below for an instant estimate.

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Key Features

Regain Usable Lab Space

by reducing your storage footprint.

Lower Operating Costs

by decreasing storage costs and capital expenditures.

Increase Productivity

by streamlining processes.

Maximize Research Time

by decreasing the time spent searching through freezers.

Program Components

Sample & Material Management

The Azenta team helps minimize the time researchers spend rummaging through freezers looking for samples by creating an organized space, allowing scientists to spend more time doing what they do best - research. Our team will travel to your site and collaborate with stakeholders and lab personnel to create an efficient cold storage environment to meet their specific needs.

Reduce on-site cold storage footprint by greater than 40%

Optimize storage configurations within units
Rationalize the inventory to ensure value added material is preserved
Disposition of material into short-, medium-, and long-term needs
Provide clear visibility of samples
Inventory at the level required for project needs and compliance

Data Management

Data management is a crucial step in maintaining better storage management as digitizing the inventory increases usability, saves time, and aides in maintaining compliance.

Data collected during inventory can be used to:

Reconcile against legacy systems
Supplement existing metadata
Generate a data lake or data warehouse
Apply standards
Harmonize complete data or against existing data

Preventative Maintenance

Laboratory equipment failure can be costly and catastrophic to a research project. It is extremely important to establish and maintain an ongoing preventative maintenance program. Regularly scheduled maintenance on both the inside and outside of the freezer, including ice and frost removal, helps ensure that the storage units are reliable and maintain temperature uniformity. This comprehensive maintenance also removes the common hassles associated with ice and frost removal, such as becoming hard to open and close, water on the floor, and difficulty finding and accessing the materials in the freezer.

Unreliable storage units can result in:

Shorter lifespan of freezer unit
Poor seals that result in ice build-up and temperature deviations
Increased energy cost
Sample integrity issues

Cold Storage Unit Savings Calculator

Use this tool to calculate your estimated savings available by optimizing and consolidating your cold storage space. You will receive a summary of your potential cost, time, and space savings, as well as what you could fit in that extra space. Fill out the form below to get an email with the full report.

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These results are not guaranteed but are based on the Azenta Better Storage Management Team’s experience working with various clients of varied sizes and locations.

On-Site Assessment

Uncover opportunities for savings and optimization

Our team can help support on-site sample management needs with proven processes and advanced technology. Put our expertise to work with an on-site assessment. We will uncover opportunities that can translate to additional headcount, laboratory and cold storage space, and significant cost savings.

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Storage Transformation

Before Better Storage Management

Before

At single sites and across global sites for an organization, our team often finds:

Fragmented approach to management of materials and inventory
Valuable real estate containing unusable samples from unneeded to unknown
Inventory systems with limited visibility and poor utilization of assets
Inconsistent data standards and practices across studies and laboratories
Aging freezer infrastructure with increased risk of failure

After

Our goal is to use our expertise as a partner through the rationalization and inventory of materials to achieve full visibility of your samples and other materials. Some of the successful outcomes are listed below:

Optimization of freezers already owned, reducing capital expenditure
Sample consolidation to assess a usable sample inventory and reduce freezer footprint, thereby gaining real estate in your facility and reducing carbon emissions
Access to informatics solutions that provide visibility to samples, better data, and compliance support
Controlled data with user-configured workflows
Consistent standard operating practices (SOPs) for sample management preparation and characterization

After Storage Management

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