LabWare
LabWare is a company that develops and implements Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN). The company is based in Wilmington, DE, and uses Smalltalk to develop both its LIMS and ELN. Company. LabWare was founded in 1987 by Vance Kershner, who is the company's current president and CEO. It has offices in fifteen countries with customers in ninety. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, DE, with a training facility at Oberod Estate, a French-style Chateau in Centreville, DE built for Jane du Pont Lunger. LabWare pharmaceutical clients include Wyeth, Teva, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Merck , and Bristol Myers Squibb. They also produce software for other industries, such as food and beverage, forensics, nuclear power, environmental and water testing. Their software is used to test for water, soil, food and air quality in the US, Ireland, Australia, and South Africa. LabWare uses Visual Smalltalk Enterprise to develop its products. In October 2014, LabWare joined the Pharo Consortium. LIMS. LabWare LIMS automates laboratory processes and logs samples, tests, and results. It was created to automate clerical activities involved in processing analytical results in a lab environment and other lab processes. Lab settings in which LabWare LIMS has  been used include forensics, pharmaceutical, food and beverage testing, and chemical manufacturing laboratories. ELN. LabWare also develops Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN), a digital version of paper lab notebooks. Their ELN include search capabilities, a duplication function, and collaboration applications Labware ELN also make it possible to add images and multimedia observations directly to the notebook. LabWare ELN also supports Laboratory Execution through the implementation of capabilities that enforce Guided Method Execution for improved data integrity and regulatory compliance. 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.