Cost savings achieved by the introduction of Winlims to a typical laboratory easily exceed the monthly payments required under the new Winlims Rental scheme
Figures recently released by Quality Systems International (QSI) have shown that the cost savings achieved by the introduction of Winlims to a typical laboratory easily exceed the monthly payments required under the company's new Winlims Rental scheme.
A time and motion study was undertaken at a client's premises to examine the impact of the new system.
Looking at just one Winlims function, automated reporting, and comparing it with the previous error-prone and time-consuming spreadsheet system, significant savings were identified.
The client's laboratory issues nearly 6000 reports a year - COA, SQC and 'out-of-spec' reports to customers, plus management and instrument status reports for internal use.
Using the previous spreadsheet reporting system, each report required between five and 15 minutes manual intervention by laboratory staff.
The fully automatic Winlims reporting was shown to save more than twice the monthly Winlims rental fee of £265.
Other Winlims functions, like automatic invoicing, would yield parallel savings, not to mention those accruing indirectly from the elimination of data transcription errors and rework.
