Your lab and the equipment have been operating successfully, when you experience a catastrophic power failure. How or why did this happen?
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.
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How Lab Leaders Can Prepare for Safety Crises That Don’t Follow the Script