Food & Beverage
What pressures are driving your business?
- Reduce cost of business
- Expand your business
- Ensure product safety & quality
- Reduce staff
- Comply with regulations
- Pass inspections
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- Accommodate more safety initiatives
- Develop excellent documentation
- Use new, advanced technologies
- Transitioning from a paperless system
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The food and beverage industry is continually searching for ways to reduce the cost of business while ensuring quality and safety. With food safety being a top concern of industry, consumers, and governments alike, segments of this industry face an increasing number of government standards and regulations. Many have already adopted the principles of such programs as the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) and others. Such programs offer a systematic approach to identifying and evaluating biological, chemical, and physical hazards associated with the production of food or dairy. It requires identifying and monitoring critical points in the production process to avoid contamination where it might occur.
In addition, the US FDA is preparing to implement an Act developed in response to concerns of bioterrorism. Called Title III of the Public Health Security and Bio-terrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002, this Act will have significant impact on the food and beverage industry. It means the industry must have full traceability and accountability throughout the food chain—from manufacture processing, packing or holding product, to transporting, distributing and even to people receiving regulated food products. Although this traceability will enable rapid response to a threat, the Act will have significant affect on processes and costs.
The right laboratory information management system (LIMS)—SQL*LIMS Software—will provide an excellent monitoring and documentation system, as well as make food and beverage production processes easier, cheaper, and faster.
Keep competitive with the SQL*LIMS® Software solution
SQL*LIMS Software is an essential ingredient in meeting your goals of controlling costs, improving efficiency and productivity, and helping to ensure food and beverage quality and safety. SQL*LIMS is a complete, 100% Web-based software that provides a comprehensive solution for integrating, automating, and managing laboratory data and workflow processes. It integrates functionality spanning lot management, quality assurance, stability studies, instrument integration, reagents inventory, scheduling, and instrument calibration and maintenance. SQL*LIMS integrates with your business systems as well.
For food and beverage companies, SQL*LIMS assists you with compliance with internal and external standards, as well as government regulations. It provides complete traceability throughout the production process, following every step of your laboratory workflow, making policy enforcement, data integrity, and traceability easy. You can prove the chain of custody as SQL*LIMS tracks samples from receipt and analysis, to data entry, approvals and the final report. Every action is logged and properly recorded, signed, and archived for future use.
Core functionality for the food & beverage industry
How SQL*LIMS can benefit your laboratory workflow processes
Take a look at how SQL*LIMS Software can make you more productive throughout your laboratory processes. Select the image below for how you can use SQL*LIMS Software in the workflow of a manufacturing QA laboratory. And for a more in depth demonstration, you can also select
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Flexible, Cost-Efficient Architecture
100% Web-based system is easy to deploy, maintain, upgrade, and integrate into enterprise business systems
- Scalable, flexible, open architecture
- Easily tailored to meet the needs of both the small lab and large multi-site global operations
- Multi-site deployments are simplified with this flexible, configurable system.
- Enables customers to build and extend functionality to meet your complete needs for local turn-key operations or multi-site data-center based implementations.
Easy Navigation
- Laboratory processes are simplified using easy-to-configure workflows and reporting tools.
- Streamline, one-mouse click navigation for easy access to LIMS functions
- Information is immediately available
- No need to click through icons or folders to find information.
- Enhanced fill-downs and pop-ups for data entry and approvals
Validation Support
- Validation-ready implementation. The existing rich functionality and feature set reduces the time need to configure, test, and deploy the system. Little to no custom code needs to be developed for the typical implementation. This lowers the overall project timeline and dramatically reduces the validation requirements.
- A full set Structural Validation documentation is made available with every release of SQL*LIMS. This documentation set provides a comprehensive software test suite and full electronic documentation.
- The SQL*LIMS Professional Services team also offers validation services making getting your system ready for validation easier than ever.
Regulatory Support
- Assists with FDA 21 CFR Part 11 ERES/EDIG compliance requirements
- Manufactured in strict accordance with ISO 9001:2000 quality system guidelines
- Designed, tested, and manufactured for use in Good Manufacturing Procedures (GMP), Good Laboratory Procedures (GLP), and GxP environments.
- Independent auditors from BSI certify and document processes for customers in regulated industries.
System Integration
- Certified integration with ERP/MRP (manufacturing resource planning) systems
- IDM-LimsLink™ is integrated into SQL*LIMS to provide instrument connectivity
- Industry-standard SSL and PKI encryption methods available for secure intranet/Internet deployment
More Functionality Highlighted
- Analyst training and qualification tracking
- Reagent and consumables inventory tracking
- Ability to save and distribute commonly used queries
- Fully configurable, grid-based result entry
- Instrument calibration management.
- We’ve also expanded the portability of our Web-based software. With our latest SQL*LIMS release our customers can rapidly deploy global systems and access their LIMS functions securely from remote locations or by using portable devices such as tablet PCs.
Security
- Secure single sign-on passwords for users of multiple databases.
- Industry standard encryption for secure intranet/internet deployment.
Solid, Proven Technology
- Built on the industry standard technology including the Oracle® Application Server 10g and Oracle10g™ database
Supports the extensible Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standards-based application
