Lab Operations Library

Practical guides for running a research lab.

No-nonsense, lab-floor advice on chemical inventory, shared equipment, QR workflows and audit readiness — written for the people who actually keep a lab running. Useful whether or not you ever use LevelSixLabs.

Chemical inventory

How to move your lab's chemical inventory off spreadsheets

A practical, step-by-step way to migrate a lab chemical inventory out of a spreadsheet into a single searchable record — without losing a week to data entry.

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Chemical inventory

How to move your lab's chemical inventory off spreadsheets

A practical, step-by-step way to migrate a lab chemical inventory out of a spreadsheet into a single searchable record — without losing a week to data entry.

6 min read

Equipment booking

Preventing double-booked equipment in a shared lab

Why shared-equipment clashes happen, and how to stop them for good — conflict prevention, training gates and booking from the bench.

5 min read

QR workflows

QR-coding your lab equipment: a practical guide

A simple way to put a QR code on every instrument so anyone can scan to see its record, book it, or report a fault — no app to install.

4 min read

Audit readiness

Getting audit-ready without the paperwork pile

Audit prep is painful when records are scattered. Here's how to keep chemical, equipment, service and training records traceable so an inspection is a non-event.

6 min read

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