See what manual lab work is really costing you — and what a LIMS could save

Every sample your lab logs by hand, every result checked manually, every report stitched together across sites carries a labor cost that rarely shows up on a single line item.

This LIMS cost savings calculator estimates the annual labor and operational savings a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) could unlock for your lab, by quantifying the manual tasks a LIMS is designed to eliminate: sample login and data entry, result review, report creation, and the phone time spent relaying results to customers and production.

It’s built for QA/QC and production labs, but it works for any environment — enter “0” for any task that doesn’t apply to you, and the estimate adjusts to your reality.

Best Lab Tech is independent. We don’t sell LIMS software. We review it. This calculator uses standard, published ROI assumptions rather than a single vendor’s numbers, so the figure you get is a directional benchmark, not a sales projection.

How it works:

Answer a short series of questions about your current manual workload, including sample volume, staffing, daily checking, and multi-site reporting. The calculator converts that effort into hours, applies conservative efficiency assumptions, and returns:

• Your estimated annual saving in labor cost
• Analyst hours reclaimed each year
• The number of full-time equivalents that time represents
• A line-by-line breakdown across data entry, review, reporting, and results delivery

It takes about two minutes. The information you enter is used to generate your estimate.

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