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 STARLIMS SDMS – Typical Uses
 Collaboration in Research and Development Projects
STARLIMS SDMS works with the company’s project management tools to strongly promote collaboration in research and development projects. R&D projects require collaboration between multiple resources and easy access to data generated by colleagues. STARLIMS project management tools enable scheduling tasks that are executed collaboratively by several resources. SDMS seamlessly collects all the documents generated during the completion of these tasks, creating a coherent picture of the entire R&D project. This is a major step forward in realizing the full value of this research and development work, and making it available throughout the organization.
The Project Management Tool promotes collaboration across the enterprise
Instrument Integration
Using STARLIMS SDMS, data can be captured from any instrument that outputs a file of known structure, whether it is a single result, multiple results for a single sample or multiple samples. Required information can be extracted to unified XML (which also allows the storing of graphical images) and imported to other systems. In addition, the original file can be stored using the content management functionality and the document can be recreated using XML. This provides not only instrument integration but also a mechanism of storing the information in a format-neutral way–ensuring the long-term availability of critical information.
Certificates of Analysis and Reports
Materials supplied to the laboratory or organization may come with Certificates of Analysis from the manufacturer. If these are supplied in electronic format they can be automatically processed and stored. This may include extraction of relevant test data and results and automatic import of that information into any system that requires it, for example LIMS, ERP or other manufacturing type systems. The same type of process can be used for Certificates of Analysis and reports generated by the laboratory.
Product Specifications
Where an organization uses product specifications in the manufacturing process, maintaining, managing and updating those specifications can be a problem, especially in a global multi-site environment. The specifications need to be created, updated, approved and distributed. The workflow manager can be used to manage the review and approval mechanism. On approval the specification details can be converted to the XML format and as soon as this is done they become available for automatic upload to any system that requires the information.
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
SOPs and methods are managed in much the same way as product specifications. Workflow management can control the creation, review and approval; and on approval data can be extracted, processed and made available as required.
Knowledge Management
Once file and document management has been implemented using the STARLIMS SDMS the data and information is available within a single unified system. This makes Knowledge Management a real possibility, allowing simple access to all the data and information created and used by the laboratory.
SDMS Overview
Processes of SDMS
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