User calls

Connect LDB LIMS to AI assistants such as Claude or ChatGPT

1. MCP as an open standard for LIMS interfaces
2. Activation guide, technical details and security
3. Demo: check existing documents and standards for updates
4. Demo: voice input in pathology
5. Ready-to-use templates to get started
6. Frequently asked questions about MCP and LIMS

The SHAPTH interface for drinking-water laboratories is live

1. What SHAPTH is and which interfaces it will replace from 1 January 2027
2. How to obtain access to SHAPT
3. Demo: submit reportable data to public health authorities using SHAPT in Labordatenbank
4. Master data and sampling points
5. Migrate the existing master data fields
6. Frequently asked questions about the SHAPTH interface

Phase 5 of AI integration in LDB

1. LDB-MCP
2. Query Explorer
3. New user interface
   • Reports
   • Parameters
4. Reissuing reports: Making changes identifiable
5. Multilingual support: Additional languages with custom translations
6. Data security update

Phase 4 of AI integration in LDB

1. Document Explorer
2. Audit Assistant
3. Import mapping with AI
   • Connect instruments, external laboratories and systems
   • Recognise handwritten forms and extract their data with validation
4. DEMIS integration (Axel) Connecting LDB to DEMIS
5. LDB UI update: New dropdown selection system
6. Data security update

Online customer portal: digital analysis orders and reports for laboratory customers

1. Online sample registration directly through the customer portal
2. Track the status of samples and analyses
3. Retrieve test reports, raw data and files
4. Laboratory workflow: select packages containing multiple parameters and use results tables for a clear overview
5. Monitoring and trending using data analyses
6. Settings and administration tools

How laboratories work with Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude and European provider Mistral.

AI Explorer: Securely control context and permissions for questions

Code Explorer: Connect instruments, external laboratories or systems without programming

AI imports: Convert unstructured data into structured data

Query Explorer: Query, analyse and provide data without SQL

How to use AI securely, save time and reduce errors with automation, process handwritten documents or PDFs securely, and analyse data: AI integration in LDB

Phase 3 of AI integration in LDB

1. New frontier AI models
2. Four-eyes principle for AI imports (import validation)
3. User contribution: How Lisa Heudorfer from MVZ Ravensburg Labor Dr. Gärtner uses AI to read and validate sampling records
4. Code Explorer demo: How to generate an SAP interface with AI
5. Introducing the SHAPTH interface for drinking water and hygiene
6. ISO 17025 quality management: Templates for test equipment, recording material consumption and a poisons register in the LIMS

In the LDB kick-off, we draw on our experience of more than 200 LIMS implementations to show you how to get off to a structured start with LDB.

1. The laboratory data model: how orders, samples, results and reports relate to one another
2. Login and security: create employee accounts with an initial password and ensure secure access with MFA or SSO
3. Access rights: structure employees, groups and roles to establish ISO 17025-compliant permissions management
4. Settings, templates, categories, tags and system settings
5. How to work successfully with us
6. Questions & answers

Set up parameters correctly – a workshop with project managers Ines Weiher and Miriam Weyden

1. Introduction to parameter management
2. Access rights, structure and calculations using formulas
3. Define fields and record values reliably
4. Laboratory workflow: select packages containing multiple parameters and use results tables for a clear overview
5. Questions and answers with the LIMS experts
6. Specific requirements for accredited laboratories: measurement uncertainty and accreditation status for the DAkkS symbol

Set up limits and specifications so that results are evaluated immediately, deviations are highlighted in colour and assessment text is automatically added to test reports.

1. Create limit tables and specifications
2. Define target-value rules for each parameter
3. Automatic results assessment, including visual highlighting and limit-exceedance warnings
4. Suggested wording for assessments and test reports
5. Presentation tips and tricks
6. Questions & answers

Automatically create test reports that meet accreditation requirements.

1. Creating test reports automatically
2. ISO 17025 requirements for test reports: the DAkkS symbol and measurement uncertainty
3. Electronic signatures (PAdES)
4. Independent review and approval
5. Sending by email and distribution list
6. Questions and answers

Test reports: design PDF templates and report tables

1. Administration tools and access rights for adding new test report formats or modifying existing ones in LDB
2. Create templates for test reports and other documents
3. Add your logo, text and variables to your PDF template or letterhead
4. Design report tables
5. Structure your test report using chapters
6. Questions & answers

Automate billing for your laboratory’s analyses and services with the quotation and invoicing module – a workshop with project managers Ines Weiher and Ramona Bünte

1. Create price items from parameters, packages, limit tables and specifications
2. Create quotations
3. Automate invoicing
4. Invoice services such as sampling and travel expenses
5. Maintain volume discounts and customer-specific discounts in a structured way
6. Questions & answers

Connect instruments, external laboratories and systems through import interfaces – a workshop with project managers Ines Weiher and Miriam Weyden

1. The basics of instrument integration: data formats
2. Measurement data import example: save time and avoid errors by importing parameter and sample values directly
3. Settings for the integrated import interface editor
4. Map files and attributes
5. Further examples: import samples, customers, orders and other data from additional systems
6. Questions & answers

How to manage your materials and batches in accordance with ISO 17025, simplify documentation and maintain a clear overview.

1. The settings and access rights you need for material management
2. Creating, filtering and finding materials, and using AI to import information from safety data sheets
3. Linking batches, including their status and approval, to samples
4. Creating batch samples to test your batches
5. Generating purchase orders and maintaining an overview
6. Questions and answers

Digital sampling

1. Manage facilities and drinking-water properties
2. Manage facility components and drinking-water sampling points
3. Plan sampling and test scopes
4. Dashboard and calendar functions for staff deployment and route planning
5. Plan availability and required materials
6. The most common customer questions on this topic

Phase 2 of AI integration in LDB

1. Query Explorer (Daniel and Patrick): Analysing data with AI, database queries in natural language (without SQL), practical examples
2. Technical aspects of AI integration (Daniel)
3. Quality management project with technical and system assessor Susanne Kolb
4. Competency matrix – an extension to the quality management module (Susanne) + Qualifications, competencies and authorisations in accordance with ISO 17025
5. AI models and data security (Katharina)
6. AI onboarding: Six sessions now available to book

Funding available to laboratories implementing a LIMS

1. How funding works & key eligibility requirements
2. Funding example: Funding for the LDB implementation at customer Sanimeus
3. Digitalisation funding opportunities: Overview
4. Research allowance funding opportunity – up to 4 years retroactively

Download the slides (PDF)
Grantego funding consultancy
AI app for funding advice: Grinno

AI imports: Creating samples from a customer letter using artificial intelligence (AI)

1. DI Stefan Karl (MPL Mikrobiologisches Prüflabor GmbH) introduces the task
2. Creating the import mapping
3. Test import
4. Fine-tuning the prompt
5. Completion and a second test import

Overview of AI features in LDB
AI import interfaces

Phase 1 of AI integration in LDB

1. AI import interfaces and AI Explorer
2. AI guardrails: Managing and controlling AI models
3. Demos:
   - Importing from sampling records
   - Importing from external laboratories: User contribution by Dr Caroline Indorf
   - Creating parameter formulas with AI Explorer
   - Tips for everyday work
4. Data security: Control, access rights and AI audit trail

User call for the LDB Summer Release

1. Document control – how to control and approve your laboratory documents digitally and track changes.
2. Collaboration in the laboratory – how to work with colleagues and share notes and tasks
3. Secure login for your customers, secure password resets and Microsoft authentication updates
4. AI preview – development status update | Which LLMs we use | How to use your own LLM | A practical laboratory example | Chat interface for LDB

User call for the LDB Spring Release

1. NIS2: As a LIMS provider with many customers covered by the NIS2 Directive, we offer insights into what is relevant to your laboratory.
2. Customer feedback – how to implement the ISO 17025 requirement in your laboratory and collect customer feedback systematically
3. Report automation and workflows – how to use triggers to automate work after creating reports
4. Expansion of the LDB SaaS infrastructure and technical information

User call for the LDB Winter Release

1. SHAPTH interface for water and hygiene samples subject to mandatory reporting
2. Electronic invoices based on the XRechnung standard in LDB
3. User presentation by Matthias Schuh from essentim on integrating monitoring data
4. Parameter formulas: Faster and more secure – an update to processing speeds up result entry and processing.
5. LDB release management
6. Data security – an overview of our latest penetration tests and security improvements with SmartSquare
7. Expanding the infrastructure – we invest and do everything we can to provide a secure SaaS LIMS.

Implementing DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025 in the laboratory – and how a LIMS can help

How to use a LIMS that meets accreditation requirements to implement quality management requirements in your laboratory.

1. The relevance of DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025
2. Tools for your quality management
3. Proficiency testing
4. With an audit checklist (PDF, 1 MB) by DAkkS technical assessor David Welter-Monitz

How to connect your instruments to the LIMS

1. Overview of laboratory interfaces
2. Examples of connecting instruments & external laboratories
3. Connecting instruments without manufacturer support – a practical contribution by Leif Rönfeldt
4. Tools & steps to get started

Languages for users & customers

1. Introducing the new languages with automatic translation
2. Tagging system for specifications
3. Statuses and access rights for your templates
4. Status update, data security, enhanced account security for the customer portal

Tagging system & change requests

1. New customer support representative on the team: Susanne
2. Introducing the new tags
3. Practical demonstration of the tagging system by Heike Schmelter (who selected and introduced LDB as a LIMS at a long-established automotive developer in her role as acoustics laboratory manager)
4. Introducing change requests
5. Improved formula editor
6. Code example templates
7. Status update on data security

How to create and manage dashboards for your laboratory

1. Dashboards, widgets and home pages
2. Dashboards for tasks and work allocation
3. Dashboards: Key figures and statistics at a glance

Identifying & combating cyber threats to your laboratory

1. Current threats: Cyberattacks – Why laboratories in particular are affected.
2. Zero trust approach: Data security on site and in the cloud.
3. Secure authentication: Best practices for your laboratory
4. Practical checklist: 10 steps to improve data security in your laboratory that you can implement immediately
5. DIN EN ISO 27001: How to use the international standard to require IT security from your suppliers.

Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), backups and secure login with passkeys

1. Introducing Inna, our new customer support representative
2. New Markdown fields and features
   8D reports, training, validation reports, parameters
3. Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN)
   Guest contribution by Martina Tomberger (CBmed)
4. Restoring an LDB backup locally
   Guest contribution by Stefan Karl (MPL Mikrobiologisches Prüflabor GmbH)
5. Data security: Secure authentication
6. Questions & answers

Dark mode, workflows and approval processes & ISO 27001

1. Introducing updates: Dark mode, tasks, audit trail, Status management: Workflows and approval processes, data analyses
2. Information about updates
3. ISO 27001 certification for Labordatenbank
4. Questions & answers