customers linking LIMS with other systems. between the web service provider and
The Norwegian National Institute of consumer.
Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES) Celanese, a major chemical manufacturer,
i
MS
have data transferring from LabWare LIMS uses Thermo Scientific’s SampleManager
to the national website, which is used by the LIMS to manage laboratory data across all
public to research and obtain information. of its manufacturing facilities. Celanese is
ARPAV (Italian environmental protection one of the world’s largest producers of acetyl
agency for the Veneto region) links its LIMS products, which are intermediate chemicals
to geographic information systems (GIS) to for nearly all major industries.
aid data analysis of water and air samples.
ABOVE: Celanese, a major chemical
The standard setup for each manufacturing
manufacturer, uses Thermo Scientific’s
Richards Bay Minerals (RBM), situated at
SampleManager LIMS to manage laboratory
facility includes integration between its ERP
Richards Bay, South Africa, has integrated data across all of its manufacturing facilities. (SAP), Manufacturing Execution System
Linking with L
LabWare LIMS with acQuire, a system used (MES) (SAP’s Manufacturing Integration
by geologists for the processing and analysis necessarily all the data within the different and Intelligence system), LIMS (Thermo
of field data. RBM produces titanium slag, modules of SAP is fully accessible to LIMS Scientific SampleManager), and PIMS
rutile, zircon and high purity pig iron from software,’ says Thurston. The extension of (OSIsoft’s PI).
ore mined from mineral sand deposits. ‘The this accessibility mainly depends on the level ‘Our ERP system, SAP, is where we run
interface… ensures the prompt transfer of customisation to which the ERP interface our business,’ says Andrew Vega, application
of quality analytical data to an external has been subjected. support analyst at Celanese. ‘Orders are
system without any of the risks associated However, SAP now supports web services, planned and released for production in ERP.
with manual re-entry,’ says Jan Louw, LIMS which allow LIMS and other systems access All of our master data is housed in the ERP
champion at RBM. to a much broader range of data and there system. Quality inspections are generated
are fewer restrictions on the methods for and managed in SAP… and all certificates of
Enterprise resource interfacing with other systems. Making product quality come from our ERP system.
planning systems the data available across multiple systems ‘We use MES to run our shop floor and to
One of the problems with integrating LIMS provides an easier way for staff to access visually integrate data from various systems
with ERP software, such as that from global information from a single location. for the operations and laboratory personnel,’
enterprise software supplier SAP, is that, in Web services support machine-to-machine Vega continues. LIMS is used to manage all
the majority of cases, it’s customised to meet use over a network and utilise XML as laboratory data.
each of the utilising companies’ needs, notes a message format to transfer data. ‘The On completion of in-process testing, the
Thermo Scientific’s Thurston. ‘Very rarely advantage of XML is that it can model very data is fed to the PIMS and is made available
will the company employ the standard system complex data, such as data within a LIMS to MES. When final lot testing has been
as supplied from SAP,’ he says. using a hierarchical structure. Companies can completed, the LIMS data uploads into the
SAP’s QM-IDI (Quality Management create their own tags or meta-data within the ERP system for the purpose of releasing or
Inspection Data Interface) is an open XML structure that describe the data in the holding the product.
interface that allows data transfer between XML document,’ explains John Gabathuler, Celanese uses the standard SAP QM-IDI
the QM application component of the ERP director, industrial and environmental at interface to integrate with LIMS, with MES
software and other systems such as LIMS. LabWare. LabWare LIMS is fully XML- providing additional information. ‘Whereas
‘This gateway, however, is limited in the enabled and its web service modules utilise before it may have taken some custom ABAP
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data with which LIMS can interact, and not XML messages in all communication code (programming language used to develop
The evolving development of the LABS/Q® LIMS according to
well-accepted standards such as ISO 9001:2000, the GAMP guideline, and
GxP relevant regulations warrants enduring regulatory compliance including
FDA 21CRF11, audit security and availability of state-of-the-art functionality
for our customers at the same time, i.e. LABS/Q® is always the LIMS of
choice where automation and quality matters.
iCD. as a pioneer in lab automation and premium supplier of challenging lab
software solutions provides two major LIMS systems designed for different Additionally, with the Sample Master® LIMS developed by our US
markets and requirements. partner Accelerated Technology Laboratories Inc. iCD. also provides
a purpose-built and modular LIMS for small to mid size contract labs
The LABS/Q® LIMS offers an integrated and also cross-functional platform for in Europe belonging to a number of various industry segments. It is easy
large-scale and medium-sized enterprise labs from different industry sectors to use and includes already all functionality and interfaces to facilitate
such as pharma/biotechnology, chemical/petrochemical, automotive and food/ daily work and to comply to international and national regulatory and
beverage. It represents a freely scalable and fl exible out-of-the box LIMS with reporting requirements as well, i.e. Sample Master® is the ideal LIMS
integrated DMS that includes an enormous library of functions, fi ve modules for all environmental, agriculture and public health labs.
including a DoE-based module for optimization of chemical synthesis and
recipes, thus offering omnibus functionality for R&D, manufacturing, QA/QC as iCD. Vertriebs GmbH, Augustinusstr. 9d, 50226 Frechen
well as environmental protection.
Email: info@icd.eu
Certifi ed interfaces to SAP/ERP, MES, PIMS, PLM, CDS or any lab
instrument secure seamless integration of the LABS/Q® LIMS into the Web: www.icd.eu
complete business workfl ow and help to eliminate errors, improve effi ciency
of the employees and reduce overall business costs by increasing the
automation level in the laboratory and enterprise. LABS/Q® also facilitates
ISO, DIN, USP and FDA compliant validation of analytical methods by
interfacing with the iCD. VALIDAT method validation software.

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