Organizational Productivity Challenges
- Organizations typically operate with intensity during the day but slow or shut down during the night
- Experiments are scheduled inefficiently because the scientist must be present to take a sample or change a process variable
- Unreliable results are obtained from non-standard experimental methods
- Scientists must be present to record information and any data that is collected to be transcribed manually to a notebook
- Scientists waste time preparing data from multiple sources for analyzing and reporting
- Valuable data is routinely lost and scientists cannot leverage institutional knowledge to minimize the hands-on work needed to complete projects