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Keeping Abreast
Lablink Africa spares no effort to ensure that its services meet contemporary industry expectations and standards. Mainly, this is through the adoption of technologies that allow for automation and staying abreast of contemporary quality standards.
• Automation
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Laboratory technology is constantly developing, with a focus on automation within all laboratory processes. This includes processes such as sample preparation, extraction and analysis, which can often be linked into a continuous process with minimal input from an operator.
Lablink Africa recognises the central role of automation in enhancing the efficiency of laboratories. And so, it has embraced it as pivotal to its operations. “Automation has the advantages of reduced error, leading to higher quality results, decreased turnaround times, and lower cost of analysis. Lablink Africa works with a variety of manufacturers that offer automation options and makes effective use of this advantage to offer laboratories the best solutions for their specific requirements.”
• Quality Assurance
Lablink Africa is committed to adopting new standards that can improve quality assurance. “Laboratory work is standardised in a variety of different ways to ensure results are standardised at a global level. ISO 17025 covers the operational considerations for a laboratory in terms of technical, quality, business, and management systems. This is important to give confidence to the mining and environmental industries for the quality, accuracy, and reliability of the results produced by the laboratory.”
Lablink Africa offers consultancy services to guide laboratory management and staff through the ISO 17025 requirements and ensures readiness for the mandatory audit. With the continuous improvement and development of instrumentation, methods are updated to take advantage of these improvements. So, Lablink Africa keeps up to date with all published methods and literature from international standard organisations, such as ISO (International Organization for Standardization), AMIS (African Mineral Standards), and CEN (European Committee for Standardization).
