Vendor:Labworks, LLC

**Labworks, LLC**
Type	Limited Liability Company
Industry	Laboratory informatics
Headquarters	45 East 200 North, Alpine, Utah, U.S.
Number of locations	1
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Paul Fjeldsted, CTO; Lane Franks, CEO
Products	Products list Labworks;
Website	Labworks.com

Labworks, LLC develops and distributes laboratory informatics software, including the Labworks laboratory information management system (LIMS).

History

Labworks, LLC was founded in March 2016 by former employees of PerkinElmer Inc. out of an attempt to acquire and further develop Perkin's Labworks LIMS. "The Labworks employees were tired of seeing a lack of focus and investment in the Labworks product," the company stated, "so they partnered with experienced industry executives along with private investors and made the case to PKI that the Labworks product and customers deserved better."^[1] The main driver behind the move was former PerkinElmer developer Paul Fjeldsted, who left Perkin in 2015 to make his own consulting company LabVikings. Fjelsted gathered a development team and presented an offer to Perkin, which was formally accepted on March 3, 2016^[1], though a public press release wasn't issued until May 11.^[2] With the acquisition of Labworks, the new company stated it would be releasing a version 6.6 of the software in the early summer, with a focus "on migrating functionality from the local client to web based functions and eventually to an 'as-a-Service' model."^[2]

Technology and products

Labworks

Labworks is a LIMS that is a "safe and simple solution of choice for laboratory information management."^[3] The software was originally developed by PerkinElmer.

Features

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the vendor chose to not put relevant feature information online despite its existence in the product.
the vendor chooses to make the feature information available only to those who create an account or call/e-mail.
the feature information exists online to the public, but a URL could not be found to cite the existence of the feature.
the feature does not exist for the product.

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Product: LABWORKS

Sample, inventory, and data management
Sample login and management?	Y^[4]
Sample tracking?	Y^[4]
Sample and/or result batching?
Task and event scheduling?	Y^[4]
Option for manual result entry?
Multiple data viewing methods?	Y^[4]
Data and trend analysis?
Data and equipment sharing?
Customizable fields and/or interface?
Query capability?
Import data?
Internal file or data linking?
External file or data linking?
ELN support or integration?
Export data to MS Excel?
Raw data management?
Data warehouse?
Deadline control?
Production control?
Project and/or task management?
Inventory management?
Document creation and/or management?	Y^[4]
Case management?
Workflow management?	Y^[5]
Specification management?
Customer and supplier management?
Billing management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?	Y^[5]
QA / QC functions?
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?
Data normalization?
Data validation?
Data encryption?
Version control?
Automatic data backup?
Environmental monitoring?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?	Y^[4]
Report printing?
Label support?
Barcode support?	Y^[5]
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Fax integration?
Email integration?	Y^[5]
Base functionality
Administrator management?	Y^[4]
Modular?
Instrument interfacing and management?	Y^[5]
Mobile device integration?
Alarms and/or alerts?	Y^[4]
Work-related time tracking?
Voice recognition system?
External monitoring?
Messaging?
Multilingual?
Network-capable?
Web client or portal?
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
agriculture, environmental, food and beverage, geology and mining, manufacturing and R&D, petrochemical