To meet the needs of various laboratories with different laboratory experiments, laboratory furniture should meet the functionality, sturdiness, corrosion resistance, and flexibility of installation and arrangement while pursuing the comfort and safety of the experimental environment. There are many laboratory furniture, but they are mainly divided into several categories, such as science workbench table benches, lab storage cabinets, and fume hoods. Laboratory furniture is different from general furniture. Its use is often in contact with water, electricity, gas, chemical substances, and instruments. Therefore, higher requirements are placed on the structure and material of the furniture.
How to choose a suitable laboratory furniture manufacturer is of great significance to laboratory construction. The following is a set of “theoretical methods for quality laboratory furniture manufacturers.” As a lab furniture manufacturer combined with many years of working with the lab manager, I hope to provide references and guidance for the laboratory manager. If you have better suggestions, you are welcome to share and learn together.
The Principle of Choosing Laboratory Furniture Manufacturers
1. Try to choose as many laboratory furniture manufacturers as possible. There are differences in product quality and price of lab furniture manufacturers. Purchasing personnel must determine the preferred manufacturer according to the company’s actual needs and select the most suitable manufacturer among them.
2. Comprehensive selection of laboratory furniture manufacturers according to product quality and price. The choice of laboratory furniture purchasers is to choose manufacturers with lower prices but better quality as much as possible. In choosing manufacturers, they need to put cost and quality first and comprehensively consider these two factors to ensure the final, most cost-effective laboratory furniture products.
3. Pay attention to laboratory furniture manufacturers that can provide a single variety and large quantities of supplies. The construction of a large laboratory requires a large amount of laboratory furniture. To ensure that the demand for furniture is met, procurement personnel need to pay attention to laboratory furniture manufacturers that can stably provide a single variety and supply in large quantities and cooperate with them as key manufacturers.
4. Dynamically select manufacturers that match the size of your company. Suppose the laboratory is small but blindly chooses large lab furniture manufacturers. In that case, it may lead to the problem of excessive lab furniture prices and the inability to obtain the type of furniture you want to customize. Therefore, if conditions permit, you can choose lab furniture manufacturers similar in size to the laboratory to match your business scale demand.
9 Steps To Choose Laboratory Furniture Manufacturers
Follow the manufacturer’s selection criteria and evaluation factors to select qualified laboratory furniture manufacturers. The specific steps are described as follows:
1. Develop a plan for crucial lab furniture needs. Lab furniture made by different manufacturers may vary in quality and price. To establish a friendly relationship with suitable manufacturers, you must clarify your demand and establish a close and trustworthy cooperative relationship with them. Furthermore, you need to adjust according to market changes. This relationship.
2. Determine the goal of choosing laboratory furniture manufacturers. It is required to determine the goal of selecting laboratory furniture manufacturers from a strategic perspective according to the enterprise laboratory’s procurement planning and development strategy planning to ensure that many laboratory needs are met.
3. Identify potential lab furniture manufacturers. To select more high-quality laboratory furniture manufacturers, procurement personnel also need to identify likely manufacturers and evaluate them, clarify the links to be implemented, the information process, and the person in charge of each link, and establish substantive goals and final selection criteria standard.
4. Establish an evaluation index system for laboratory furniture manufacturers. The evaluation index system of laboratory furniture manufacturers is an orderly set composed of hierarchical structure and affiliation. It is the basis and standard for purchasing personnel to evaluate laboratory furniture manufacturers comprehensively. In the selection of evaluation indicators, delivery time, Cost, quality, and service are used as metrics.
5. Establish a laboratory furniture manufacturer evaluation expert group. An evaluation team needs to be established to evaluate laboratory furniture manufacturers’ qualifications. The team members are composed of procurement centers, design centers, project centers, and other personnel to improve the fairness, objectivity, and scientificity of the final evaluation. In addition, some experts and scholars must join if laboratory furniture in particular places is involved.
6. Determine the method of vendor evaluation and selection. When evaluating laboratory furniture manufacturers, the selection criteria should be clarified according to the actual situation of the laboratory project and the characteristics of the required furniture, and subjectivity should be avoided as much as possible.
7. Evaluate and select laboratory furniture manufacturers. Purchasing personnel should investigate the manufacturer’s production and operation management in detail, collect relevant information to understand the manufacturer’s comprehensive situation, and consider whether to establish a partnership with them based on discovering their problems and evaluating them comprehensively.
8. Determine the optimal number of laboratory furniture manufacturers. Whether the number of laboratory furniture manufacturers selected by purchasing personnel is appropriate will affect the later operation of the laboratory. Generally speaking, the larger the number of laboratory furniture manufacturers, the more diverse the selection of laboratory furniture can be, but it also increases the difficulty of management. Therefore, to balance the relationship between risks and control costs, selecting the best number of laboratory furniture manufacturers is necessary.
9. Strengthen the cooperative relationship with laboratory furniture manufacturers. When cooperating with laboratory furniture manufacturers, it is necessary to conduct regular evaluations and introduce a market elimination mechanism to adjust the relationship with manufacturers according to changes in the situation.
The above is the theoretical method of “selecting laboratory furniture manufacturers,” hoping to provide specific theoretical method guidance for school science lab furniture buyers, lab furniture designers, lab managers, and lab furniture suppliers so that they can make decisions more scientifically when choosing lab furniture manufacturers, and ensure the quality and price of furniture. And maintain a more stable partnership with manufacturers, and provide reference and guidance for the construction of laboratory projects.
