Your lab and the equipment have been operating successfully, when you experience a catastrophic power failure. How or why did this happen?

Checklists and advanced management planning can keep your lab up and running

For many of us, our introduction to laboratory automation revolves around the formerly popular Technicon SMA (Sequential Multiple Analyzer, circa 1969) and the SMAC (SMA + C), when a computer interface was added to the platform in 1974.