Leadership Summit Sponsor Session Webinar
Available On Demand!
Every lab leader has experienced it: a multimillion-dollar instrument arrives on time, the vendor is ready, the team is trained—yet go-live slips. Days turn into weeks. Throughput suffers. Finger-pointing starts. And the lab absorbs the cost. In this session, lab managers and executives will learn why most instrument delays and unplanned downtime are not caused by the instrument itself—but by overlooked facility and infrastructure gaps that are entirely preventable.
Drawing on 25 years of hands-on experience working inside laboratories, this session will share practical, proven process changes that accelerate installations, protect uptime, and eliminate the disconnect between lab teams, facilities, and vendors.
Today’s automation platforms, AI-enabled instruments, and integrated lab systems are being deployed into infrastructure designed for a refrigerator that used to sit in the same spot. The result? Predictable failures hidden deep inside 400-page site prep documents and routine maintenance schedules. This session will show you how to find—and fix—those issues before they derail your next go-live.
Key learnings:
- How modern automation and AI-enabled instruments place fundamentally different demands on lab infrastructure—and how to align lab teams, facilities, and vendors before go-live.
- The most common (and least expensive) infrastructure upgrades that prevent downtime—yet are routinely missed or buried in site prep documentation.
- Critical preventive maintenance blind spots that can become single points of failure and quietly destroy throughput if left unaddressed.
Speaker
Craig Kalie
Consultant
NXT Power
