The Institute for Laboratory Automation has announced a course for IT professionals.
This course is available in two forms.
Option 1 includes a one-day stand-alone course available as either a public offering or on-site course.
Option 2 includes a half-day course that serves as a preamble to the 'Manager's Guide to Lab Automation and Technology Management' course.
An understanding of laboratory requirements will help both IT and lab groups develop policies for support, product selection, and the integration of the lab into the general corporate computing environment.
These short courses will introduce IT professionals to lab automation, what it is, what the processes are, how labs work, the state of data interchange standards, Lims, ELN, instrument automation and instrument data systems, the use of robotics and regulatory issues.
The full-day course is a stand-alone session covering the topics noted above.
The half-day course will introduce IT professionals to lab instruments, how automation is applied to them, and a general model for instrument automation that can be used to understand other instrument/automation systems.
The remaining material will be covered in the second part of the programme: the Manager's Guide course.
Having both lab and IT personnel attend the second session together will give them: a basis for understanding the planning requirements for lab automation; the ability to build a working/planning relationship between the groups; and a basis for building successful automation programs.
