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Optima is a web-based Laboratory Resource Management Solution that helps you plan and track your laboratory activities, coordinate resources and generate reports to smartly forecast your projects.
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Plan, schedule and adjust

Enable a digital lab scheduling process that considers resource availability, constraints and deadlines.
Deliver lab results efficiently by adjusting resource allocation accordingly

Forecast your lab workload

Anticipate the exact resource requirements based on the needs of your customers, internal and external.
Create a Lab Business Plan with just one click

Track your Lab Performance

Complete insight into the performance of your lab. Resource utilisation, instrument usage and availability for allocation immediately visible in the weekly schedule with easily customisable reports.

Laboratory Management Systems

Easily import information from any compatible laboratory management system to automate the lab scheduling activities. LIMS, IMS, TMS…

Communicate Efficiently

Avoid endless emails and unnecessary meetings.
Keep your customers informed about lab utilisation with automatic reports and remote access to their projects.

Monitor Process Improvement

Set your lab goals in the application and monitor achievement weekly, monthly, quarterly and annually.


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Optimize time and resources with the Optima LRMS®, Lab Scheduling Software

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01. Schedule & Planning

The Lab scheduling system handle all planning activities for your lab and identify the productivity gap – all with one single tool.
With Optima, you can schedule activities and instruments but also the human resources that work in your laboratory and the tasks allocated to them.

02. Track, Report & Forecast

With the Optima tool, you can track and report all the activities, projects and resources involved in the daily routine of  your lab.
Optima empowers you in forecasting your resources needs at short, medium and long term.
Optimize the processes in your lab and operate smoothly and efficiently with the app that is built for the purpose.

Resource Management

Operative Decisions

Instrument Qualification

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Who Are We

The founders of Optima, Isabel Muñoz-Willery, Ph.D. and Roberto Castelnovo, are independent consultants with more than 40 years’ experience in laboratory operations and laboratory informatics, and possess strong business and technical acumen.

Combining their technical and managerial expertise, they founded NL42 Consulting in 2012 to provide specialised services dedicated to paperless projects and laboratory data management.

Until 2025, they also organised the annual Paperless Lab Academy® conferences in Europe, the United States and India. Attended by representatives from operations, quality control, R&D and quality assurance, and sponsored by lab informatics solution providers, the event has been acknowledged by Gartner as one of the best lab automation learning platforms in Europe.

The Optima team comprises scientific experts with a thorough understanding of customers’ workflows and needs, and informatic engineers  in the lab informatics industry. This cumulative knowledge led to the design and development of Optima LRMS®, Laboratory Resource Management System, which has been seamlessly meeting laboratories’ business needs since 2019.

The complete solution for our customers is supported by Optima team members, trusted advisers who deliver high-quality services characterised by personalised attention and professionalism.

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Lab Resource Management System 

A Multi-functional Lab Scheduling Software
– Eases the laboratory activities scheduling with a quicker understanding on your instruments status.
– Highlights availability of personnel upon performance requirements.
– Allows calendar sharing amongst the team.

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