Step 1: Understanding Your Needs

The key to a successful project is a clear understanding of what your R&D project is trying to achieve. That's why our workflow architects (WFAs) collaborate closely with you to understand your R&D challenges and your enterprise goals. This process enables us to frame the workflow solution you are looking for and gives you and us the opportunity to refine it conceptually before the solution itself is created.

• Stage 1: Understanding your R&D challenges We work with you to clearly understand the R&D challenges you are trying to overcome. Once we understand the bottlenecks you are facing, we can design a workflow that will meet your specific requirements. Whether it's simple ready-made solutions or more involved integrated workflows, clearly understanding your R&D challenges is the first step.
• Stage 2: Development of requirements As we define a solution or options for your lab, our WFA team works with you to outline and document the workflow, the required operational ranges, the throughput requirements, needed and desired analytics, and any informatics requirements. In some cases this captures your process as it exists today. In many cases, the Freeslate team can help rethink your workflow to have a greater impact on your productivity, and create opportunities for novel solutions that can provide step-change gains.
• Stage 3: Workflow solutions proposal Our WFA team develops a proposal with a clearly articulated scope designed to meet your challenges. When the proposal has been approved and you have agreed to engage in the project, we assign a cross-functional project team who begin to develop designs and specifications based on the scope outlined in the proposal. For both simple, straight-forward projects and more complex projects, we think this approach ensures the workflow achieves what you're expecting.

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