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Engineering Management Journal,
Volume 3,
Issue 4,
2001,
Page 51-55
Mike Sharpe,
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Miniaturisation and automation are revolutionising virtually every aspect of society. The current generation of computers is totally unrecognisable from its predecessors of 20–30 years ago and the average laptop, palmtop or mobile phone today contains more computing power than was used to put man on the moon.Slowly but surely these developments are finding their way into the chemical laboratory too. Since the 1980s we have seen the deployment of laboratory information management systems (LIMS), connecting the analytical instruments in a lab to one or more workstations or personal computers.1In the 1990s these LIMS began to be integrated with inhouse software systems (“ERP systems” in the IT jargon). More recently single site systems have been linked together, using the internet and other technologies, into powerful multisite networks.While laboratory automation helped streamline laboratory processes, particularly in terms of information flows, it had relatively little impact on the analytical processes themselves. All this is changing rapidly however. The convergence of microelectronics, nanotechnology and materials science is opening the way to a new generation of miniature analytical devices, the socalled labonachip (LOC). This era of microchemistry will not only bring major changes in laboratory practices but will also open up whole new areas in chemistry itself.
ISSN:0960-7919
DOI:10.1039/b105801k
出版商:RSC
年代:0
数据来源: RSC
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Pesticide regulation, product innovation and public attitudesThe opinions expressed in the following article are entirely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Editor or Editorial Board ofJEM, Syngenta or the Column Editor.This paper is based in part on a research project studying strategic decision making in agrochemical and related industries, ‘Policy Influences on Technology for Agriculture’ (PITA) EC Framework Programme 4, Targeted SocioEconomic Research Programme, project No PL97. Selected reports on this project can be found on http://ed.ac.uk/rcss/supra/and the full set is available on http://technology.open.ac.uk/cts/pita/ |
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Engineering Management Journal,
Volume 3,
Issue 4,
2001,
Page 64-69
Terry Clark,
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Column Editor
ISSN:0960-7919
DOI:10.1039/b105803g
出版商:RSC
年代:2001
数据来源: RSC
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