Case Study: The Pirbright Institute achieves structured, searchable freezer management with Freezerworks

The Pirbright Institute reorganizes 11 freezers with Freezerworks for zero-discrepancy migration

The Pirbright Institute, a UK-based research organisation specialising in infectious diseases, faced significant challenges in managing its 70 cold storage facilities. With inconsistent organization and non-standardised processes across 11 key freezers, sample retrieval was time-consuming and error-prone, hampering critical research. Pirbright partnered with Freezerworks to develop a more structured and scalable freezer management system.

Freezerworks implemented a carefully planned reorganization, creating a searchable system with visual enhancements like colour-coding and clear naming conventions. The migration was completed with zero discrepancies across all 11 freezers, causing no disruption to ongoing research. The result was a standardized, efficient storage infrastructure that provided enhanced tracking and significantly reduced sample retrieval times for the institute's teams.

The Pirbright Institute