When no one is in the lab: Monitoring your critical laboratory equipment

Discover how to reduce operational risks, prevent sample loss and respond quickly to unexpected incidents in your lab. When no one is in the lab: Monitoring your critical laboratory equipment Freezers, incubators and other critical laboratory equipment don’t only fail during working hours. What happens when something goes out of specification at night or over the weekend? How quickly will your team know, and who will be responsible for responding? For biotech and life sciences companies, an unexpected equipment failure can result in sample loss, disruption to research and significant follow-up work. Having the right monitoring and alert system in place can therefore make a real difference in protecting critical samples and ensuring a fast response when something goes wrong. In this practical session, Marius Jacobsen, VP Business Development at Metinor, will explore how companies can monitor their own critical laboratory equipment and manage alarms, users, responsibilities and reporting through a dedicated monitoring solution without turning it into a complex IT and infrastructure project. Rather than focusing on a long list of product features, the session will take a practical approach to reducing risk, simplifying day-to-day laboratory operations and giving research teams greater visibility over their critical equipment, even when no one is in the lab. The session will include a short live demonstration of the Metinor solution, followed by Q&A and a networking coffee where participants can continue the conversation and connect with other professionals from the life sciences ecosystem. Who is this session for? This session is particularly relevant for biotech, pharma, life sciences and research companies that operate their own laboratory equipment and need to ensure that critical assets and samples are properly monitored. It will be especially useful for lab managers, laboratory operations teams, researchers, scientific leaders, quality teams and professionals responsible for critical equipment, monitoring and risk management. Whether you already have a monitoring system in place or are considering how to improve the way your laboratory responds to equipment incidents, the session will provide a practical overview of the challenges, considerations and possibilities available. Agenda 10:00-10:10 Welcome Pilar Gil, coCEO at SID 10:10-11:00 When no one is in the lab: Monitoring your critical laboratory equipment Marius Jacobsen, VP Business Development, Metinor 11:00-11:10 Q&A 11:10-11:30 Networking coffee Would you like to discover the SID / Barcelona Hub? Participants interested in learning more about the hub and the laboratory spaces currently available will have the opportunity to arrange a tour with the SID team after the networking coffee.