ALA Laboratory Automation Survey 2008:Section 4
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ALA 2008 Laboratory Automation Survey
Authored by: Steven D. Hamilton, Santias Consulting
The ALA recently conducted a survey of laboratory automation system providers and industrial users, as a detailed followup to the 2006 Survey on the State of Industrial Laboratory Automation. In many cases, similar questions were posed to compare the focus and priorities of automation users vs. providers. The responses will be presented in the following series of articles. A detailed article with editorial commentary from both the vendor and user community will be published in JALA later in 2009.
The cost for 2008 Laboratory Automation Industry Research was graciously underwritten by Agilent Technologies, Caliper Life Sciences, PerkinElmer, Symyx Technologies, and Thermo Fisher Scientific
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SECTION 4: SURVEY DEMOGRAPHICS |
The user survey was completed by 42 carefully selected ALA members.
They defined themselves and their organizations as follows.
| 4.1 User Question: My organization is part of the following industry | ||
| Large Pharmaceutical | 40% | |
| Biotech/Biopharma | 29% | |
| Government | 5% | |
| Academia (non-profit research institute) | 5% | |
| Consumer Goods | 5% | |
| Agriculture/Food | 14% | |
| Materials and Formulation R&D | 2% | |
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| 7% | |
| 45% | |
| 47% | |
The technology provider survey was completed by the following carefully selected companies.
- Uniconnect
- ProgynGenetics
- Mettler-Toledo
- Tecan
- Hamilton Robotics
- EDC Biosystems
- Thermo Scientific
- Hudson Control
- Caliper Lifesciences
- Perkin Elmer
- Tomtec
- Labcyte
- Agilent
- Process Analysis and Automation
The ALA would like to thank everyone who participated in this survey!
Go to Section 1: Use & Needs , Section 2: Trends or Section 3: Organizations
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