Overview

Managing your laboratory’s testing of continuous manufacturing processes efficiently while ensuring that your products meet defined specifications and safety requirements is mission-critical. Doing this manually and with disparate systems leads to production delays, and therefore decreased profitability.

With streamlined processes and improved automation, STARLIMS offers a unified laboratory informatics platform that contains all core laboratory informatics needs for a continuous manufacturing process in a single system.

You can automate all of your plant laboratories using a centralized and standardized solution to streamline your QC testing and product release activities with STARLIMS.  Whether you operate regionally, nationally, or globally, STARLIMS is designed to support your organization.

STARLIMS offers a comprehensive laboratory informatics platform with multi-language capabilities which allows you to deploy a single, web-based solution for your entire organization.

Efficiency

Your lab is staffed with highly educated individuals. They weren’t hired to manually fill in Excel spreadsheets. Documentation and the recording of processes is a necessary function in the lab. However, routine data entry like this can and should be automated.

The STARLIMS Quality Manufacturing system for the Petrochemical and Refining industries helps you increase efficiencies by:

Automating manual processes

Setup sample scheduling, sample points, shifts and jobs, and product specifications once, and then let the system automate the process from there.  Your team can focus on the work, rather than trying to figure out what they are supposed to be working on.

Reducing data entry

Integrate with most of your instruments and third party system so that most of your data entry is eliminated.  With STARLIMS SDMS, non-programmers can create interfaces to instruments and even third party systems.  With native support for web services, STARLIMS can easily be interfaced with your other enterprise systems to eliminate the need to re-enter information like sample points, plants, and other commonly shared information.

Consolidating your information systems

People are more efficient when they learn how to use a single tool well.  Reduce the # of information systems your laboratory personnel and managers need to use, and they will be more efficient (and probably a bit happier as well).  STARLIMS is a centralized, unified and tightly integrated platform that can help you consolidate your laboratory information systems.

Unified manufacturing QC

You need to manage in process and final testing of product, as well as movement between tanks, vessels, and trucks.  You need to QC blends, transfers, splits, and re-grades.  You need to test product stability, and some of you need to test how well your product helps other products last longer.  You need to send custom certificates of analysis to different regions of the world based upon product specifications and grading.

STARLIMS QM supports all of these core manufacturing functions, all within a unified and centralized platform.

 

Cost Reduction

To increase profit margins, you can increase production (to a point) and you can find areas to decrease costs.

The STARLIMS Quality Manufacturing system helps you reduce costs by:

Lowered costs through automation

Only have your laboratory personnel perform tasks that they need to.  With a focus on a release by exception model, STARLIMS can automate the release of all normal testing and samples, significantly reducing the amount of information that needs to be manually reviewed and approved.

Additionally STARLIMS allows your personnel to perform data analysis and trends to make informed decisions, rather than performing repeated manual tasks. This saves your organization time while reducing error rates.

Decreased turnaround times

By automating the right processes, STARLIMS helps decrease analysis and QC data turn-around time. For most of our clients, this results in a decrease in overall time to market.  

 

Compliance

The importance of regulatory compliance can’t be overstated. Non-compliance can have repercussions both financially and to your organizations reputation.

With our in-depth knowledge of regulatory standards, STARLIMS helps you maintain compliance with the following.

Automated seasonal testing schedules

STARLIMS automatically and effectively mananges testing schedules with consideration for all variables. Our automated sample schedules eliminates manual processes that may lead to compliance issues.

Reduced audit prep time and increased compliance

STARLIMS greatly reduces costs by having all of the information related to your lab’s operations in a centralized and easily accessible location. QA personnel are able to access entire sample and lot/batch history from a single screen, display the training history of each individual, along with full audit trails and e-signature information.

 

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