Overview

Laboratories in manufacturing environments are required to support the production business by providing timely and accurate information about production processes and product quality. The laboratory is a critical part of the business, as it helps ensure that the manufacturing process works efficiently and that the products meet defined specifications, safety requirements and quality standards. In addition, the laboratory often provides an analytical service to the business, facilitating process optimization, process trouble-shooting and method or manufacturing process development.

In the context of rising globalization and increased competition, today’s manufacturing industries are under continual pressure to control costs and increase efficiency. In recent years, this has been accompanied by increasing safety and environmental regulation of the industry driven by both government and public concerns.

STARLIMS manufacturing solutions are designed to help your lab achieve all these goals.

With STARLIMS systems in place, your lab can contribute to maximizing the efficiency and cost effectiveness of your organization’s manufacturing processes—while at the same time ensuring that products meet the defined quality requirements. STARLIMS is a vital component in the monitoring of both batch and continuous manufacturing processes, especially when integrated with other business critical system such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Process Information Management Systems (PIMS).

STARLIMS can help you increase your compliance and efficiency while decreasing costs and turn-around times by:

•     Streamlining audit preparation
•     Reducing data entry
•     Consolidating information systems
•     Automating the right tasks

Learn more about STARLIMS in the Cott Case Study

Increase Efficiency

Manufacturing QC

Supporting all aspects of the manufacturing process, STARLIMS optimizes the productivity of critical human resources, enhances data quality, and ensures compliance by allowing you to consolidate all of your QC manufacturing information systems into a single system.  This includes raw materials through product QC and stability testing.

Automate manual processes

Manual processes are costly, especially when they involve highly educated individuals performing business-critical data entry work. STARLIMS allows your personnel to focus on science by automating time-consuming manual processes with the STARLIMS Scientific Data Management System (SDMS).

Rapid instrument integration

Unlike most LIMS, the STARLIMS solution allows for rapid integration with instruments without the need for programming. By removing the need for programmers, STARLIMS allows almost all instruments to be interfaced in a very short amount of time.
Consolidate your information systems

STARLIMS offers a unified platform that contains all core laboratory informatics applications in a single system. No more switching between systems. Intuitive and easy to use, you’ll save time with STARLIMS’ centralized, unified and integrated platform and eliminate the need for multiple applications.

 

Cost Reduction

Automation decreases your costs

With the STARLIMS unified platform, routine data analysis and calculations are automated, allowing you to review trends and make informed decisions, rather than continuously repeating the same task over and over again. By eliminating the need for time-consuming manual data-entry, personnel can focus on their core competencies, save valuable and expensive time while mitigating the risk of costly human errors.

Get to market faster

Reduce the amount of time your QA Managers and Qualified Persons need to spend reviewing and releasing QC information by eliminating unnecessary work. STARLIMS is built around a release by exception concept, which allows all “normal” testing to release automatically, with the system letting you know when something is out of the ordinary and needs additional review.

Streamline the auditing process

STARLIMS streamlines the auditing process by centralizing all of your labs operational information. This in turn substantially reduces the cost involved in preparing for an audit.  With STARLIMS, QA personnel can access an entire sample history from a single screen, review the training history of each individual, display full audit trails and extract e-signature information and much more all with a few short clicks.

 

Increase Compliance

Each set of information that your existing laboratory informatics solution does not meet is yet another source of manual tracking within your quality program.  The STARLIMS system tracks all aspects of laboratory informatics, from the lowest level test information through analyst certifications.

Support your laboratory’s compliance related to 21 CFR Part 11, ISO 17025, GAMP, and GxP and others with STARLIMS.  The comprehensive Audit and Traceability modules functions help ensure that customers are able to show compliance when using the STARLIMS system, while at the same time decreasing the effort to do so.

Increase your compliance by implementing method execution

With STARLIMS ELN, analysts are always able to perform their assays with the proper Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) or Work Instructions. The STARLIMS Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN), allows personnel to view the most recent SOP as they perform an assay.  Furthermore, as an analyst completes any given workflow step, the system displays the next appropriate section of the SOP.  With STARLIMS ELN, you can rest assured that your analysts are not only executing each method properly, but also can demonstrate that they have access to the approved version at the time of execution.