Development of Digital Laboratory Information Management System

Actlabs是一家跨国分析测试实验室，为采矿、生命科学、农业、材料和取证行业提供服务，总部设在加拿大安大略省安卡斯特市。目前，Actlabs使用较旧版本的PHP和MySQL来实现一个仍然依赖较旧LIMS系统的支持站点。这给Actlabs带来了挑战，因为传统的信息系统通常是孤立的，无法满足不断增长的客户需求和长期等待时间的用户。随着Actlabs在12个国家和地区拥有超过25个实验室支持世界，人们迫切需要过渡到一个完全开发的数字平台-一个全球可用的系统，在全球范围内组织他们的过程和数据。Actlabs已经与Lambton College的信息技术和通信研究中心(ITCRC)接洽，以开发一个实验室信息管理系统(Digital Platform-LIMS 4)来管理样品和相关数据。该系统将提供自动化工作流程、集成仪器和样品管理。该项目的成功将为Actlabs提供一个可扩展的数字平台，以提高效率，并与Actlabs的信息流/样本流进行全面的功能集成，以提高数据完整性。它还将允许Actlabs部署到任何位置，所需的定制操作最少。

Activation Laboratories Ltd. (Actlabs) is a multinational analytical testing laboratory providing services to the mining, life sciences, agriculture, materials and forensics industries with headquarters located in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. Currently, Actlabs uses an older version of PHP and MySQL to achieve a support site that is still interdependent on the older LIMS systems. This poses a challenge for Actlabs as the legacy information systems suffer from typical uses of being disjoined, not being able to meet the ever-growing customer demands and users suffering from long wait times.With Actlabs supporting the world with over 25 laboratories in 12 countries, there has been a strong need to transition to a fully developed digital platform - a system that is usable globally to organize their processes and data on a global scale.Actlabs has approached Lambton College's Information Technology and Communication Research Centre (ITCRC) to develop a Laboratory Information Management System (Digital Platform - LIMS 4) to manage samples and associated data. This system will provide automated workflows, integrated instruments and sample management. The success of this project will provide Actlabs with a digital platform that is scalable to improve efficiencies and has full functional integration with Actlabs information/sample flow to improve the data integrity. It will also allow Actlabs to deploy to any location with minimal customization required.