The laboratory is the core place of scientific research and an important cornerstone of technological development and innovation. With the development of science and technology and the improvement of modern laboratory construction, the complexity and arduousness of laboratory management have also increased greatly, and higher requirements have been put forward for the standardization and efficiency of work.
Traditional laboratories are often unable to meet the needs of researchers. In the process of using the laboratory, there are many problems such as information lag, distortion, poor use efficiency, low management efficiency, insufficient utilization of resources, complicated approval process, chaotic access control management, random placement and use of experimental equipment, real-time monitoring of the experimental environment, chaotic management of chemical reagents, improper disposal of waste causing environmental pollution, etc., and a large number of dangerous goods are stored in the laboratory, once the management and use are improper, it will cause serious consequences. This kind of extensive management with ambiguous rights and responsibilities makes experimenters tired of coping with supervision, which will affect the stability and sustainable development of the laboratory in the long run.
According to statistics, from 2001 to 2020, there were 113 publicly reported safety accidents in university laboratories across the country, resulting in a total of 99 people. The occurrence of laboratory accidents in colleges and universities, and the recurrence of tragic cases, are far more shocking than data.
On November 30, 2023, after receiving the alarm, the fire rescue force immediately rushed to the scene to extinguish the fire at the scene.
On August 17, 2023, the laboratory of the Department of Chemical Engineering of National Taiwan University caused a *** accident caused by a student's experiment, resulting in serious burns to 2 students and 7 inhalation chokings.
On August 14, 2023, an irritating chemical spill occurred at the Education Institute of Yanjin Township, Yangon City, Myanmar. Fortunately, the school was still on holiday at the time of the incident, so no one was injured in the incident.
On August 5, 2023, a university laboratory in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province smoked, and after receiving the alarm, fire rescue personnel immediately dispatched, and according to the situation at the scene, firefighters extinguished the open fire at the scene.
On the afternoon of July 4, 2023, a laboratory accident occurred at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia campus in Medellín, killing one student and injuring two.
On April 17, 2023, a student suffered facial injuries in a case of ** in the Hiroshima University laboratory in Higashi-Hiroshima City, Japan.
On December 6, 2022, a laboratory accident occurred in a laboratory on the fourth floor of the chemistry building of a university in Hong Kong, where a doctoral student left the laboratory after setting up an experimental reaction device due to improper experimentation, causing a double-grinding round-bottom flask containing a very high concentration of sodium hydride to explode, and the chemical was sprayed two or three meters away, hitting another female doctor in the face.
On November 26, 2022, a ** incident occurred in the laboratory of the Biology Building of the Weigang Campus of Nanjing Agricultural University, and then firefighters arrived at the scene to extinguish the fire.
Lab management pain points
1. A large amount of work needs to be manually registered, which is cumbersome and cannot be traced.
A large amount of inspection data needs to be manually sorted and calculated, which is time-consuming and prone to errors. Business contracts, ** orders, experimental materials, original records, reports and other reports rely on manual preparation, and the same content is frequently copied, which seriously affects office efficiency. The statistical efficiency of daily data is low, and it takes a lot of time to record in the ledger. The manual registration of chemical reagents is complex, prone to operation errors, and has certain potential safety hazards.
2. Opaque management of resources.
In actual work, the management work based on man, machine, material, method and environment consumes a lot of time, and cannot form an effective systematic operation. For example, inventory counting of samples, consumables, and retained samples. The expiration date of the sample and the entry and exit of the sample need to be recorded manually by excel, which is heavy and error-prone. Equipment inspection and maintenance cycles need to be manually recorded. Equipment maintenance records, acceptance records, measurement records, maintenance records, etc. need paper document records, which is not conducive to preservation and traceability. Personnel training, evaluation, and training materials cannot form a system, and it is difficult to control document authority. A large amount of experience and knowledge cannot be shared, which makes talent replication slow and work efficiency low.
3. Lack of laboratory environment management.
Indicators such as temperature and humidity, harmful gas concentration, particulate matter concentration, smoke concentration, dust concentration, and noise cannot be monitored in real time, and various potential threats and dangers cannot be predicted and warned in advance.
4. Lack of unified management of laboratory instruments.
Instruments and equipment are distributed in various laboratories, although there are special personnel to manage, but the lack of a centralized and unified management platform makes it difficult for schools to quickly and accurately locate and track equipment. There is also a lack of reasonable timing for the use of equipment.
5. All links in the laboratory are isolated and cannot form a closed loop.
From various materials, equipment, personnel, space to the final experimental data or experimental report in the laboratory, the data has formed an island between the various departments in each link, and can not be communicated, resulting in a lot of resources can not be effectively utilized, and the internal report data needs to rely on paper transmission, which not only wastes resources and can not guarantee the authenticity and timeliness of the data.
6. Insufficient standardization of management.
With the increasing demand for association and sharing between different departments, as well as the expansion of the number and scale of laboratories, the defects in safety, standardization, stability, and standardization of manual and paper management methods are increasingly exposed.
7. Laboratory energy management is not in place.
The power supply of indoor lighting and equipment cannot be intelligently managed, resulting in a waste of resources and energy.
In order to improve management efficiency and prevent the occurrence of laboratory accidents, it has become a consensus to build intelligent laboratories.
In view of the pain points and problems of laboratory management, Sanleng uses the development of high-tech such as the Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, and digital twins, and builds an intelligent and standardized new laboratory around the laboratory's "personnel, instruments, experimental materials, reagents, methods, and environment".
Sanleng Smart Laboratory The construction of digital laboratory, through the Internet of Things, the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and other high-tech, the laboratory people, equipment, materials, business processes are integrated, through intelligent cameras, various Internet of Things detectors, to achieve laboratory access control management, dangerous behavior monitoring and early warning, equipment real-time status monitoring, air conditioning and lighting remote control, fire monitoring and early warning and other functions. At the same time, with the practical teaching, laboratory management process and basic affairs of colleges and universities as the core, the data flow and task flow between laboratory businesses are interconnected, and the objects, affairs and management links involved in the laboratory management process are effectively built into a unity, running on the same platform, so as to realize the visualization, transparency and intelligence of laboratory management.