LabWare, Inc. is an American developer of

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software, such as

laboratory information management system A laboratory information management system (LIMS), sometimes referred to as a laboratory information system (LIS) or laboratory management system (LMS), is a software-based solution with features that support a modern laboratory's operations. K ...

s, electronic laboratory notebooks and laboratory data analytics. It is a

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, with offices in

Wilmington, Delaware Wilmington is the List of municipalities in Delaware, most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish colonization of the Americas, Swedish settlement in North America. It lie ...

History

The company was founded in 1987 by Vance Kershner, who is president and CEO. It has offices in 25 countries, with customers in ninety. The head office is in

, with a training facility at Oberod Estate in

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. Pharmaceutical clients include

Wyeth Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc. was a pharmaceutical company until it was purchased by Pfizer in 2009. The company was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1860 as John Wyeth and Brother. Its headquarters moved to Collegeville, Pennsylvania, a ...

, Teva,

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Pfizer Pfizer Inc. ( ) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation headquartered at The Spiral (New York City), The Spiral in Manhattan, New York City. Founded in 184 ...

, Merck, and

Bristol Myers Squibb The Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Trade name, doing business as Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), is an American multinational pharmaceutical company. Headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, BMS is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies ...

; other users are in the food and beverage, forensics, nuclear power, environmental and water testing industries. The software is used to test for water, soil, food and air quality in the United States, Ireland, Australia, and South Africa. In 2021, CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services (CTI), a global, full-service contract research organization (CRO) announced their partnership with LabWare.

Körber Körber AG is a strategic management holding company based in Hamburg. In 2023, the group had more than 12,000 employees at more than 100 locations worldwide and generated sales of €2.9 billion. History 1946–1992 On July 14, 1946, Kur ...

, a global technology company, and LabWare announced in 2023 the integration of LabWare LIMS and Körber's

manufacturing execution system Manufacturing execution systems (MES) are computerized systems used in manufacturing to track and document the transformation of raw materials to finished goods. MES provides information that helps manufacturing decision-makers understand how curr ...

, PAS-X, for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry. LabWare and

Mettler Toledo Mettler Toledo, stylized in all caps, is a multinational corporation, multinational supplier of precision instruments and services. The company focuses on laboratory, industrial, product inspection, and food retailing applications. Its products ...

announced a plug-and-play software integration to enhance laboratory productivity by seamlessly connecting LabWare LIMS with Mettler Toledo instruments in 2024. LabWare uses

Visual Smalltalk Enterprise Visual Smalltalk Enterprise (VSE) is a Smalltalk dialect that runs only on Microsoft Windows, and is the last in a long line of Smalltalk implementations first produced by Digitalk and now available through Cincom. Active development has stopped ...

to develop its products and in October 2014, LabWare joined the

Pharo Pharo is a Cross-platform software, cross-platform implementation of the classic Smalltalk-80 programming language and runtime system. It is based on the OpenSmalltalk virtual machine (VM) named Cog, which evaluates a dynamic, Reflective progr ...

Consortium. In January 2024, the Cuis Smalltalk community announced that LabWare supports their efforts.

Acquisitions

In March 2022, LabWare acquired CompassRed, a data analytics firm.

Awards

LabWare won the ''Scientific Computing and Instrumentation’s'' Readers’ Choice Award in the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) category each year between 2000 and 2008. LabWare LIMS won a Frost & Sullivan Product Quality Leadership Award in 2004, and the company won Frost and Sullivan's European Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) Company of the Year Award in 2008. In 2016, LabWare was honored by the Delaware Bioscience Association as their company of the year. MYTECHMAG added LabWare to their list of Top Oil & Gas Tech Solution Providers in 2021. The Center for Business Analytics at Drexel University LeBow College of Business recognized LabWare as an honoree of the 2023 Drexel LeBow Analytics 50 Awards.

References

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External links

Official Site
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