Caster Brakes Provide Added Care for Animals and Support Staff
Forces of inertia and momentum become much more dangerous when animal laboratory equipment is mounted with casters.
Caster Safety in Laboratory Environments
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?
Case Study: The Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building at Stanford University
The new 26,000 cage facility focused on achieving utility savings and recycling goals.
User Knows Best: Post-Occupancy Conversations
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?”
"We’re a small facility. How can I get some of the equipment that I know big labs are getting rid of?”
Remote Sterilizer Monitoring: Would It Help Your Lab?
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
Explora Biolabs was looking to scale up rapidly, and disposable caging offered financial
and operational benefits.
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
Today’s equipment and control systems have been developed into reliable and safe systems that are easy to operate.
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
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.