several master data configurations for new LIMS deployments, a.k.a. paper-to- by Steven Bates, Ph.D. I’ve led several master data configurations for new LIMS deployments, a.k.a. paper-to- LIMS transitions, for which there’s a certain art. However, it’s just as common for an organization to already have an existing informatics system that they want to transition from to a new system. This has its own particular challenges, but many of the lessons from configuring master data from scratch can...

A collaborative perspective from Automata and 20/15 Visioneers January 2026 Abstract Laboratory automation stands at a critical inflection point. While technology has matured significantly, 50-75% of automation initiatives fail, not from technical limitations, but from cultural and organizational challenges. Unfortunately, this failure rate is common in Life Science initiatives. This white paper presents a practical framework for laboratory transformation that addresses both technological...

By John F. Conway Chief Visioneer Officer What Disney Imagineers Can Teach Drug and Therapy Discovery Operations About Data and Reproducibility In the early days of Walt Disney’s Imagineering team, the magic was real – but the record-keeping was not. According to Imagineering lore, almost nothing was written down in those pioneering years.[1] Ride concepts and design tweaks were tacit knowledge  that lived in engineers’ heads or in ad-hoc conversations. Reproducibility was essentially...