[labnetwork] UPDATE: lab benchmarking exercise

Mon Feb 15 14:12:21 EST 2021

Dear Julia,
Thank you so much for your message. You raised indeed two great questions.
To answer the first question, my first attempt was to simply compare the ratio no of lab staff to no of users and PIs. However, I have extended the questionnaire with some questions for sure all of us have been thinking about and I have been trying to understand where my lab would be positioned within the big picture of our community and find ways to improve our activity here taking into account the influence of some important specific parameters as:
- SA perceived as a remote location by equipment and consumables suppliers and by service providers, hence our mostly in-house equipment maintenance;
- a rather low request from local industry, hence my question about the cost recovery management system, I cannot apply;
- connected to the above, a fully subsidized activity here, which I guess should be an advantage for us...
-etc.
To answer the second question, of course, apart from the immediate use to benchmarking my lab, I will be very much looking forward to see you all again during our next UGIM meeting, after we get rid of this disruptive virus to share the findings of this study with you all, if you will be considering this interesting. No link between place and numbers will be disclosed though... only statistics.
I still recall the fruitful discussions we had at Penn and I regret that our meeting at Wisconsin U last year had to be postponed...
I hope some of you will be able to send me some info. Again, all this will be completely confidential.
Meanwhile, please, please, stay safe everyone! Our users will need our continuous support! :)
Kind regards,
Gheorghe

From: Aebersold,Julia W. [mailto:julia.aebersold at louisville.edu]
Sent: 15 February 2021 18:16
To: Gheorghe Iordache <gheorghe.iordache at kaust.edu.sa>; labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [labnetwork] lab benchmarking exercise

Can you give moer information on how the data will be used and if it will be shared with this group thereafter?

Cheers!

Julia Aebersold, Ph.D.

Manager, Micro/Nano Technology Center

University of Louisville

2210 South Brook Street

Shumaker Research Building, Room 233

Louisville, KY  40292

(502) 852-1572

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Subject: [labnetwork] lab benchmarking exercise

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Dear colleagues,

I'm running a lab benchmarking exercise and I would like to kindly ask for your feedback to the extent you will be able to share the info.

Please see the table below with the numbers for KAUST Nanofabrication Core Lab and if you will be able to help please fill in your lab numbers on the dedicated column and send it to me in confidence to gheorghe.iordache at kaust.edu.sa<mailto:gheorghe.iordache at kaust.edu.sa> .

IMPORTANT NOTE: Your input will be used by me only for the above mentioned exercise and it will not be disclosed to anyone else.

Thank you in advance and all please Stay Safe!

Question

KAUST

Your lab here

Academic or Industry?

University

Government of private?

private

user shared lab with independent management  or run by faculty?

independent Core Lab in charge with equipment maintenance and training users; faculty would suggest new equipment to be purchased

cleanroom area [sq. meter]

2000

cleanroom class (ISO)

5

no. of lab staff / PhD / Engineers / Technicians

19 / 10 / 6 / 3

no. of current users

178

no. of faculty

48

no. of equipment

140

cleanroom open to users 24/7 ?

NO

do you run a cost recovery business model?

NO

the 3 most used equipment / their usage % 24h / backup equipment available?

Deposition e-beam Evaporator / 37% / YES

PPMS_2B_tf / 22% / YES

PPMS_2_tf / 21% / YES

Cleanroom Specific safety training and emergency response

YES

Training tracking system

YES / Badger

Safety Training refresher for staff and users

every 3 years

Critical Equipment Training refresher

if not used for 6 months

Equipment reservation system ?

YES / Badger

Equipment/Asset maintenance system ?

YES/FiiX

lab ISO 14644 compliant or certified ?

ISO 14644 compliant

do you have a microfluidics lab?

YES

hosting SME research or production?

NO

equipment mainenance - mostly [in-house or service contracts]

in-house

Buddy system recommended or compulsory?

recommended

Lab Control System monitored 24/7

YES

Emergency response communication

Core Labs WhatsApp on business mobile phones. Connected to campus emergency response

Emergency response team [lab internal or external]

Campus Fire Department

Toxic Gas Monitoring System

YES

All Alarm response to Fire Department

YES

Safety Walkthrough

Biweekly

Kind regards,

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Gheorghe IORDACHE, PhD Physics, MBA

Director of the Nanofabrication Core Lab

KAUST

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Al Khawarizmi Building 1 East, Level 3, Office 3415

Thuwal 23955-6900

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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