VelQuest and LabWare have announced the integration of LabWare and the SmartLab GMP ELN at a major multi-national pharmaceutical company for its worldwide quality operations
The customer conducted extensive evaluations of both Lims and ELN technologies and chose VelQuest and LabWare because each vendor promises best in class solutions that can be implemented rapidly and cost effectively.
Furthermore, LabWare and VelQuest have demonstrated a history of working together in collaboration with the customer to provide a superior level of integration between the Lims and ELN platforms.
This global quality informatics vision will be implemented across many manufacturing sites around the world and will replace numerous installations of legacy Lims and paper-based processes within the current manufacturing facilities.
As envisioned by the customer, the combined solution involves a multi-tiered application infrastructure that includes the VelQuest SmartLab GMP electronic notebook system implemented at the local manufacturing sites and handling all test method execution and instrument data capture operations within the QC and analytical development departments.
The ELN is seamlessly interfaced with a centralised LabWare Lims system that manages all material testing requests coming from SAP and other sources, tracking the overall sample workflow, as well as managing all stability studies and key reporting activities across the enterprise.
"This division of responsibilities between the systems makes a lot of sense for global deployments in multi-national pharmaceutical companies", said Keith Wipprecht, director of pharmaceutical business development for LabWare.
"In large global systems that are deployed to many sites throughout the world, there are key challenges presented by the wide area network when trying to achieve high levels of instrument automation and integration at all of the manufacturing sites.
"The VelQuest SmartLab GMP ELN, that is installed locally, allows it to more effectively communicate with all of the local laboratory instruments and the chromatography data systems.
"This minimises the amount of information and traffic that needs to be transmitted over the Wan to and from the enterprise Lims."
