14 ANALYTICAL AND LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
Connected productivity for industrial laboratories
Colin Thurston outlines the benefits of an integrated enterprise level LIMS solution.
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ndustrial process and manufacturing laboratories face the continuous challenge of
improving workflow and personnel efficiency, whilst maintaining product quality and compliance with regulatory and industry guidelines. Enterprise level informatics solutions provide the platform necessary for improving connectivity across the organisation by integrating laboratory generated quality data with ERP systems, PIMS, MES and other data analysis tools throughout the organization so that managers at all levels have access to the data that can help them make more informed decisions.
Below Laboratory information management systems deliver rich, intuitive functionality for lab users, IT and management.
Tis integration of informatics solutions with enterprise systems
is particularly relevant in today’s business climate, where the benchmarks for speed, accuracy and efficiency as well as price to value are higher and higher. Without connected systems and a continuous feed of laboratory data throughout the organisation, especially to management where these key business metrics are monitored, true efficiency and enhanced productivity becomes a goal that is increasingly out of reach.
Achieving successful systems integration can be a challenge due to numerous software applications originating from multiple vendors, complex upgrades, and unaligned terminology between these disparate systems. And when the lab relies
on manual data management because of limited data exchange across the organisation, that data can be compromised by human error. Tese are challenges not easily resolved without a dedicated strategy for improving connectivity and information sharing across the enterprise. To achieve this type of connectivity, industrial laboratories need to integrate processes more fully so that an automated and centralised data flow can inform managers of critical business information when needed. Laboratory, IT and management users alike need systems that are flexible and can manage data flows within centralised, field-based or remote laboratories as well as towards enterprise systems.
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