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Minimize risk, improve sample quality, increase visibility, reduce storage footprint, and lower operating costs with Azenta better storage management solutions.

Standardizing Samples® for Better Storage Management

Did you know that ~20% of research laboratory space is used for freezers and refrigerators, but many are only filled to 50% capacity? Let Azenta Life Sciences bring our biobank and material management expertise to your research. Our team travels to your laboratory or facility and helps catalog your material – samples, critical reagents, and equipment. We assess the current state of your cold storage infrastructure and sample management practices to develop a customized solution unique to your laboratory workflow.

 

Sample & Material Management
Data Management
Preventative Management

 

Gain visibility into your research data and workflow with an integrated material management solution. Having a comprehensive and well-organized solution enables efficient research and development processes, saves time and money, reduces carbon emissions, and allows better collaboration.

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Storage Transformation

Before Better Storage Management

Before Storage Management

 

Below are some of the issues we have seen within institutions at single sites, as well as on a global scale:

  • Fragmented approach to management of materials and inventory
  • Valuable real estate containing unusable samples from unneeded to unknown
  • Non-compliant 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

Post Consolidation of 3 Units

Post Consolidation of 3 Units

 

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 compliant informatics solutions for visibility to samples and better data
  • Controlled data with user-configured workflows
  • Consistent standard operating practices (SOPs) for sample management preparation and characterization

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 go onsite and collaborate with stakeholders and lab personnel to create an efficient cold storage environment to meet their specific needs.

Reduce onsite 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

With better storage management you can

  • Regain usable lab space with a reduction in storage footprint
  • Lower cold storage operating costs and capital expenditures
  • Create a more sustainable lab
  • Increase productivity by streamlining processes
  • Allow scientists to spend more time at the bench to focus on their research
  • Improve regulatory compliance
  • Implement a system that allows researchers to manage their sample collections – increasing visibility and ease of access

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 & Inventory Management

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 units
  • Poor seals that result in ice build-up and temperature deviations
  • Increased energy cost
  • Compliance issues

Onsite Assessment

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

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A Biopharmaceutical Company’s Journey to Savings and Optimized Sample Management through Partnership with Azenta

A Biopharmaceutical Company’s Journey to Savings and Optimized Sample Management through Partnership with Azenta

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