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Laboratories performing DNA-based genetic testing or delivering core lab services struggle to keep up with growing demands for more tests, increasing customer requirements and business pressures to do more with less. Yet the decision to automate systems and workflows is a big one; proper planning lets you make decisions with confidence.
Geospiza’s world class team has helped customers increase productivity and streamline operations by implementing solutions to meet the specific needs of each laboratory environment or manufacturing facility. Each Site Assessment Team is made up of experts in life sciences, information technology and business management.
A site assessment from Geospiza may be right for your business if you are:
- Starting a new laboratory and seeking the best ways to accession samples, manage, analyze and distribute data.
- Anticipating more FDA-based sequencing and clinical trials work.
- Planning to add new diagnostic tests or services to your offerings.
- Making critical decisions without real-time access to information about data quality and how it relates to reagent and instrument performance.
- Concerned about meeting delivery commitments on the next large project.
- Struggling to understand process bottlenecks or growing backlogs.
- Eager to consistently predict turn-around times from receiving samples to delivering data and results.
- Looking to optimize investments in people, instruments, and reagents.
Geospiza Site Assessment Services provides a comprehensive evaluation of your laboratory environment. We look across all of your critical systems and workflows and conduct detailed evaluations, make field observations, and interview site personnel. Our applications specialists focus on conditions that can impact the reliability of your systems. They determine sources of existing problems and identify potential bottlenecks.
Through these efforts we gain a clear understanding of your processes and challenges, and deliver recommendations to help you plan and prioritize for future growth. The result of the site assessment is a final report pinpointing operational areas for improvement and specifying areas that will benefit from particular automation approaches and tools. With a Geospiza Site Assessment Report you will have a clear view for making critical decisions to move forward strategically.
The Site Assessment Process
The site assessment is generally completed in 4-6 weeks and includes the following:
- Preparation – Geospiza works carefully to map out the site assessment plan. This includes engaging with analysts, technicians, IT and other laboratory personnel.
- Scoping site visit – Interactive sessions are conducted over 2-3 days on-site at your facility. A typical agenda includes laboratory tours, interviews, in-house process demonstrations and observations, review of data organization, workflow process discussion, and inventory of equipment and tools including analytics and desktop applications.
- Analysis – Our team of field-experienced scientists analyzes the captured information and develops a comprehensive findings report. The report contains detailed descriptions of processes and identifies areas for improvement. We also enumerate requirements to meet these challenges and propose solutions based on those requirements.
- Final presentation – The Site Assessment Report is delivered and presented in a highly interactive forum. The report is a document of value for your current decisions as well as for future considerations regarding how to prioritize, plan and prepare to meet your growing business demands.
Benefits
Site assessment findings have brought many new benefits to Geospiza customers. These include:
- Visibility into processes – Documented processes enable you to make informed decisions regarding your workflow.
- Clear plan for moving forward – Solution recommendations provide real options for ways to change processes and gain measurable results.
- Recommended automation strategies – Through laboratory automation you can optimize analyst time, increase throughput, and use instruments and people efficiently.
- Steps to meet regulatory requirements – Workflows and process diagrams documented in the final report provide the needed content for enumerating standard operating procedures and fulfill requirements to meet regulatory compliance.
Geospiza delivers strategic guidance, industry expertise, software products and professional services. Since 1997 our world class team has helped customers increase productivity and streamline operations. Together with our strategic industry partners we can help you design, configure, install and deploy the highest quality automation solutions for your organization. 
