PITTCON 2019 SHORT COURSE

Laboratory Equipment and Facility Management System

This course will overview Laboratory Asset and Facility Management Systems on the market and provide you with the parameters and requirements needed in choosing a system and managing a system. Systems that will be demonstrated are free open source systems and well supported systems such as IBM Maximo. The course will also review and demonstrate system features and components such as Calibration, Purchasing, Inventory, Contracts, Service, Preventative Maintenance, Repair, and other modules relevant to the laboratory business.

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  • What is Laboratory Asset Management (LAM)
  • How to Manage your lab costs, vendors, direction with a LAM
  • Benefits and Diminishing returns: How to choose a system
  • How to Inventory
  • How to manage Purchasing and Cost
  • How to work with your vendors
  • How to manage your PM and Repairs
  • How to inventory your assets
  • Managing contracts
  • Review of managing Calibrations
  • Laptops
  • Tablets online
  • Biomedical Asset Management System Software
  • IBM Maximo Tivoli Software

The audience are Asset Managers, Lab Technicians, Inventory and Purchasing Department Professionals, Contracts Department Professionals, Engineers, IT Technicians, Facility Managers, Project Managers, Business Managers, Directors that have acquired or are in process of acquiring an Asset Management and Facility Management Software System.

  • Master Planning and Designing your Lab Asset Management System
  • Learn the Best Practices
  • Understand Challenges in choosing a system
  • Become familiar with various systems
  • Gain hands-on experience with BAM and Maximo
  • Understand managing Inventory, Purchases, and Costs
  • Learn to track and mange Calibrations, Services, Repairs, and PMs