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LabWare suits labs whose methods have settled. Seal changes when your methods change.

Seal, the GxP execution system, is your eBR, your QMS and more. Neil, your AI agent, does the paperwork across your systems. You sign. Bioventix cut document admin time by 80%. Start with one process beside LabWare.

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Where LabWare falls short.

From LabWare’s own pages.

  • Each implementation
    “unique”
    Led by
    A LabWare consultant
    Its consultants
    More than 420
    Seal
    Neil, then your approval

    Configured by consultants.

    LabWare says each implementation is unique and runs under the technical leadership of one of its more than 420 certified consultants. In Seal, Neil configures the first process from your procedure, and your team approves it.

    LabWare, Implementation Services
  • PAS-X MES
    Requests a sample
    LabWare LIMS
    Sends the results back
    Between them
    Integration

    A result and its batch sit in two products.

    In LabWare’s example with Körber’s PAS-X, the MES requests each sample and the LIMS sends its results back. In Seal, the lab, the batch and quality are one set of records.

    LabWare, November 2023
  • A configuration update
    Impact assessment
    A new instrument
    Impact assessment
    In most cases
    Requalification

    Changes after go-live are usually requalified.

    LabWare says any configuration update or new instrument interface needs a documented impact assessment and, in most cases, some requalification. In Seal, each change runs its selected acceptance tests before publication.

    LabWare, LIMS Validation Services
  • LIMS Administration 1
    5 days
    LIMS Administration 2
    3 days
    Configuring in LIMS Basic
    3 days
    Seal
    Neil, then your approval

    Its admin courses take 11 days.

    LabWare’s administrator courses run five days for LIMS Administration 1, three for Administration 2 and three for configuration using LIMS Basic. In Seal, Neil configures the first process from your procedure, and your team approves it.

    LabWare, LabWare Training
  • Its ML and AI
    Trends, anomalies
    It works on
    Data in the LIMS
    Neil
    Drafts the change

    Its AI reads the LIMS. Neil does the paperwork.

    LabWare says its machine learning and AI anticipate trends and identify anomalous data, keeping analytics within the LIMS. Neil prepares the change itself and the paperwork around it, for your team to approve.

    LabWare, ML and AI

See it in Seal.

Real Seal screens with fictional test data: one result outside its limit, from the sample to the investigation, then Neil’s overnight release review.

  1. 1

    Each result with its method and source.

    Release test S-041-12: every result carries its method version, instrument file and limit, and the batch it came from.

    Sample S-041-12, release testing, in Seal: linked to batch B-041 and a potency preparation, a table of results for potency, impurity A and water content with unit, limit, status, method and source, and water content outside its limit with the investigation open.
    1. The batch it came fromB-041, linked to the sample.
    2. Method and source on every rowEach result keeps its method version, instrument file and limit.
    3. The exception, at the resultWater content 0.72% against ≤ 0.50%, with the investigation open.
  2. 2

    The investigation starts with its evidence.

    INV-041 opens on the result outside its limit, with the instrument file, the method, qualification and wider impact to assess.

    Investigation INV-041, laboratory review, in Seal: water content 0.72% against a limit of 0.50% or less, linked to sample S-041-12, a table of evidence to assess for source acquisition, method execution, qualification and wider impact, and the conclusion still open.
    1. The result in questionWater content: 0.72% against a limit of ≤ 0.50%.
    2. From the sampleS-041-12, linked to the investigation.
    3. What to assessThe instrument file, the method, qualification and wider impact.
  3. 3

    Neil checks every lot. People decide.

    Overnight, Neil checked each lot against its release plan and said what its record leaves out.

    The release board in Seal: 111 lots in release across three sites, $123M waiting, 86 with nothing open, and a table of the lots with findings, each with Neil’s summary, its value and a predicted certification date.
    1. The morning, in two lines111 lots and $123M waiting. 86 need only a decision.
    2. Neil’s summary of each lotWhat is open, and where Neil found it.
    3. A predicted certification dateFrom how long this site’s lots have taken.

What Seal’s customers measured.

Each figure links to the customer’s story.

QualityAcclinate and Skye Biologics

−50%
quality cycle times at Acclinate, from a procedure change to everyone trained.Acclinate
−40%
non-conformances at Skye Biologics, with training checked before execution.Skye Biologics

RecordsMiAlgae and Bioventix

−75%
documentation time at MiAlgae, from the lab to commercial production.MiAlgae
−80%
document admin time at Bioventix, after two decades on paper.Bioventix

LabWare and Seal, side by side.

Every source is listed under References.

LabWareSeal
What it isLIMS, with an ELN¹The GxP execution system, with LIMS built in
Built forLabs in all industries²Process development, the lab, manufacturing, batch release and quality
Data modelThe sample, the test and the result²Primitives your team composes: record types, their relationships, steps and checks
AIMachine learning on LIMS data: trends, anomalies³Neil, Seal’s AI agent, prepares changes to the process; your team approves them
Who configures itLabWare consultants, admins trained in LIMS Basic⁴⁵Your team, with Neil preparing it from your procedures
Quality eventsAn eQMS on the LIMS, or interfaces to a QMS such as TrackWise⁶¹Investigation opens from the result
ManufacturingSeparate MES, exchanging messages⁷Batch records on the same records as the lab
A change after go-liveImpact assessment, usually requalification⁸Your team assesses the impact; selected tests run on each change prepared for review
Getting startedConsultant-led project, or SaaS in under 30 days⁴⁹A 48-hour evaluation of one process, once the scope is agreed and the inputs received

Summary

The story
LabWare is good for laboratories whose methods have settled. Vance Kershner founded it in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1987, after nearly a decade in DuPont’s engineering department, and its sole focus for more than 30 years has been laboratory informatics.¹⁰ It still defines a LIMS by “what happened to every sample, who tested it, and what the result was”,² and has added eQMS workflows for CAPA, investigations, training and document control to the LIMS, for the lab.⁶ LabWare says its pre-configured SaaS edition deploys in less than 30 days,⁹ yet it also says every implementation is unique, fitted with more than 420 certified consultants who tackle the more complex parts until go-live.⁴ Its machine learning and AI, marketed since at least 2021, look for trends and anomalies in the data already in the LIMS.¹¹³ If your methods will not change for years, it can work well. That is rare, and rarer now that the work changes so fast.

1What LabWare offers.

LabWare sells a LIMS, deployed in pharmaceutical, food and beverage, environmental, petrochemical, forensic, clinical and mining laboratories.² It manages sample tracking, test scheduling, result capture, instrument interfacing, lot management and compliance reporting, with stability studies and environmental monitoring.² For pharmaceutical QC it manages product specifications and control limits, with an integrated ELN and pre-configured templates.¹

2Neil does the paperwork across LabWare. You sign.

You can keep LabWare. Seal’s LabWare connection reads approved REST resources and does not write to the LIMS. Once selected records are shared, Neil, your AI agent, can prepare a batch’s laboratory evidence summary: the collected sample, each result with its original and comparison unit, and the review still outstanding. Your team reviews what it prepares. Neil is not used in GMP execution.

3Start beside LabWare.

  1. Choose one release test, incoming-inspection workflow or stability study where results should feed batch review directly.
  2. Bring the method or procedure, a redacted specification, a representative result and an instrument export. Start with sample material, or arrange an NDA first.
  3. Neil proposes the workflow from the approved method and specification, and your team checks it against the source. Once the scope is agreed and the inputs received, Seal prepares the first working process and its validation pack to evaluate within 48 hours. Production timing then depends on scope, interfaces, migration and your release requirements.
  4. Connect one source: LabWare read-only for the samples and results the workflow needs, or an instrument through Seal IoT, which watches the export folder and keeps the original file with the result.
  5. Agree which system owns each record during the transition. Work outside the scope stays in LabWare.

References

  1. 1Reliable Pharmaceutical Laboratory Software for QA/QC Testing, LabWare. https://www.labware.com/industries/pharmaceutical (read 5 November 2026)
  2. 2Laboratory Information Management System, LabWare. https://www.labware.com/lims (read 5 November 2026)
  3. 3Leveraging Advanced Analytics, ML and AI for your Lab, LabWare. https://www.labware.com/lims/ml-ai (read 5 November 2026)
  4. 4LabWare Implementation Services, LabWare. https://www.labware.com/services/implementation (read 5 November 2026)
  5. 5LabWare Training, LabWare. https://www.labware.com/labwaretraining (read 5 November 2026)
  6. 6Practical eQMS + LIMS: CAPA, Investigations, Training, and Document Control in One System, LabWare, updated 27 July 2026. https://www.labware.com/blog/practical-eqms (read 5 November 2026)
  7. 7Körber and LabWare lead the way with seamless MES-LIMS integration in the pharma and biopharma industry, LabWare, 9 November 2023 (updated 12 December 2025). https://www.labware.com/blog/k%C3%B6rber-and-labware-lead-the-way-with-seamless-mes-lims-integration (read 5 November 2026)
  8. 8LIMS Validation Services, LabWare. https://www.labware.com/services/testing-validation (read 5 November 2026)
  9. 9Fully Validated SaaS LIMS, LabWare. https://www.labware.com/lims/saas (read 5 November 2026)
  10. 10About LabWare, LabWare. https://www.labware.com/about (read 5 November 2026)
  11. 11Leveraging Advanced Analytics, Metrics and Artificial Intelligence for your Lab, LabWare, as archived on 18 September 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210918220419/https://www.labware.com/lims/ml-ai (read 5 November 2026)

AQuestions and answers

Is Seal better than LabWare?

Yes. LabWare is good for laboratories whose methods have settled. Vance Kershner founded it in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1987, after nearly a decade in DuPont’s engineering department, and its sole focus for more than 30 years has been laboratory informatics. It still defines a LIMS by “what happened to every sample, who tested it, and what the result was”, and has added eQMS workflows for CAPA, investigations, training and document control to the LIMS, for the lab. LabWare says its pre-configured SaaS edition deploys in less than 30 days, yet it also says every implementation is unique, fitted with more than 420 certified consultants who tackle the more complex parts until go-live. Its machine learning and AI, marketed since at least 2021, look for trends and anomalies in the data already in the LIMS. If your methods will not change for years, it can work well. That is rare, and rarer now that the work changes so fast. Seal has no fixed model of one kind of work. It is built from primitives: record types, the relationships between them, and the steps and checks that use them, which your own team composes into your process, with Neil able to prepare each change for approval. So one platform runs process development, the laboratory, manufacturing, batch release and the quality system, and each change becomes a new version, released once its selected tests pass, while earlier runs keep theirs. Moving from paper, Bioventix put its quality system and lab records on Seal and cut document admin time by 80%.

Is Seal a LIMS?

Yes. Seal covers sample management, specifications, analytical methods, stability, environmental monitoring and microbiology, OOS and OOT investigations, reference standards, instrument data and certificates of analysis, on the same records as batch records and the quality system.

Do we have to replace or migrate LabWare?

No. LabWare can stay the record for historical and out-of-scope work, connected read-only where a Seal workflow needs it. Before moving anything, agree which system owns each record, how identifiers map and what must reconcile.

What does a change to LabWare involve after go-live?

LabWare says any later configuration update, instrument interface or upgrade needs a documented impact assessment and, in most cases, some requalification. In Seal, each change runs its selected acceptance tests before publication, so the evidence for a change is produced as the change is made.

How does LabWare’s AI compare with Neil?

LabWare says its machine learning and AI work on the data already in its LIMS, to anticipate trends, identify anomalous data and optimise operations. Give Neil an approved method or specification and it proposes test names, parameters, calculations, acceptance criteria and review gates as a change to Seal’s configuration, which your team checks and approves. Neil is not used in GMP execution.

How long does it take to start with Seal?

Once the scope is agreed and the inputs received, Seal prepares a first working process and its validation pack to evaluate within 48 hours, configured from one of your methods or procedures. Production timing then depends on scope, interfaces, migration and your release requirements.

Start beside LabWare.

Keep LabWare. Seal’s LabWare connection reads approved results read-only, so Neil can work from them while you start one release test or stability study, and nothing has to move on day one.

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