BILLERICA, Mass.- Millipore announced this week it is launching a series of new products designed to provide scientists and laboratory professionals with economical and reliable sources of highly purified water.

In recent years, the growing trend to resolving workload jams and bottlenecks within laboratories has been to rely on automation. But is machinery and automation really the answer, or is the problem more deeply seated? Could the issues instead be resolved by looking at the processes and methods of working?