Caster Brakes Provide Added Care for Animals and Support Staff
By Mike Titizian
Forces of inertia and momentum become much more dangerous when animal laboratory equipment is mounted with casters.
Caster Safety in Laboratory Environments
By Mike Titizian
We all know that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, but why wait to hear the squeak, or feel the drag of the wheel, or attempt to suppress vibrating casters?
Disposable Caging
By Jim Fallon
Simplify Processes and Reduce Biosecurity Risk at Your Facility
Case Study: The Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building at Stanford University
By Reese Zasio
The new 26,000 cage facility focused on achieving utility savings and recycling goals.
User Knows Best: Post-Occupancy Conversations
By James F. Cartwright, AIA, Robert K. Young, RVT, RLATg
The final judges of how well a vivarium has been designed and constructed are its users—the personnel who work in it on a daily basis and keep it operating 24/7/365.
Since You Asked...How can I get some of the equipment that I know big labs are getting rid of?”
By Jack Metterville
"We’re a small facility. How can I get some of the equipment that I know big labs are getting rid of?”
To Descale, or Not to Descale
By Dean Kramer, Amy Ingraham, BA, RTLAG
The Life Extending Cage Washer Diet Craze
Remote Sterilizer Monitoring: Would It Help Your Lab?
By Paul Dimaria, Mike Hays
A remote monitoring program can provide a continuous stream of equipment operation data that can proactively monitor problems and expedite solutions.
Disposable Caging – How it Helped Our Lab Grow
By Dr. Richard Lin
Explora Biolabs was looking to scale up rapidly, and disposable caging offered financial
and operational benefits.
The Three R’s of the Sump
By Dean Kramer, Amy Ingraham, BA, RTLAG
Cage washers fall into three groups: those that reuse the wash water and chemicals for each load; those that reuse part of the wash water and refresh the side tanks each load; and those that dump the wash water and chemicals after each run.
"Robotic" or Automated Cage Washing
By Paul Careless
Today’s equipment and control systems have been developed into reliable and safe systems that are easy to operate.
Cagewash Exhaust
By Jeffrey L. Linde, PE
What are the typical environmental operating parameters of a cagewash area? What are ideal velocities in the duct and what is the ideal slope of said duct?
A Guide To Rack Washer Purchasing
By Dave Diamant
Purchasing large capital equipment such as a rack washer involves more than looking at the bottom line and selecting, what appears to be, the least expensive machine.