Thermo Fisher Scientific has introduced several functionality enhancements to its Darwin Lims, which is designed specifically for pharmaceutical research and development and QA/QC.
Already offering dissolution, stability management, product and batch management, environmental monitoring and system interfacing, Thermo Scientific Darwin 3.0 brings new capabilities to pharmaceutical laboratories.
Darwin 3.0's new web interface allows for more efficient reporting and sharing of test data across the lab.
Built on the Microsoft .NET framework, Darwin can be extended to include dashboard-ready tools for multi-user and multi-site environments where the interface gives immediate information on resource and instrument utilisation so laboratory managers can maximise productivity by optimising resources.
Darwin 3.0 also features solution and reagent inventory management and built-in instrument calibration and maintenance, allowing continuous operations and increased efficiencies.
Reagent lots and amounts are logged and tracked over time, ensuring that a test is never stopped due to lack of reagent availability or a bad/expired lot.
Likewise, instrument calibration and maintenance tracking prevents a user from running a test on an uncalibrated or out-of-compliance instrument.
Thermo Fisher Scientific said pharmaceutical labs will realise a lower total cost of ownership due to Darwin's user-friendly and intuitive interface, as well as the industry-specific functionality built into the product, reducing the need for costly customisation to standardise processes.
The product was designed and optimised to operate on the Oracle 10g platform, with extensive interfacing capabilities to provide tight integration with SAP for rapid batch disposition and release and streamlined workflow, plus new historical data trending and charting functionality.
The embedded charting and trending for product stability testing allows for real-time data review and rapid reporting.
By incorporating SAP and additional systems interfacing capabilities, as well as batch and product management capabilities, customers are better prepared to integrate Darwin into their global enterprise landscape.
The newest features built into the latest release of Darwin have been designed to meet Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations.
