cGMP Informatics Meeting Highlights Integration of VelQuest’s GMP Electronic Notebook System with Commercial LIMS, ERP and CDS Systems
VelQuest Corporation is pleased to report on the IT system integration platforms presented by top pharmaceutical companies at the 4th annual International Meeting on Automated Compliance Systems (IMACS) that took place on May 16-17 in Princeton, NJ. The following organizations presented technical and management topics on automating compliance systems in cGMP operations: Altana, Inc., AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Bristol-Myers Squibb Imaging, Eli Lilly & Company, McNeil Consumer Healthcare Canada, MedPointe Pharmaceuticals and Nektar Therapeutics.
Key integration insights from the meeting include:
- VelQuest’s SmartLab GMP Electronic Notebook System was seamlessly integrated with the Waters® Empower™ CDS. The SmartLab system automatically pushes the sample preparation information (weights, dilutions etc.) into the CDS. Sequence set and final results are collected and distributed to a Thermo LIMS.
- The SmartLab platform was integrated directly to SAP without the use of an intermediary LIMS system.
- Several large multinational pharmaceutical companies are standardizing their global cGMP informatics platforms with integrations between three key technologies: ERP, LIMS and SmartLab GMP Electronic Notebook System. All instrument and CDS integration was done through the SmartLab platform.
- Productivity, Cost Reduction and Compliance Improvements include:
– 50% reduction in review and approval cycles
– 20-40% improvement in productivity and costs
– Right-first-time capability reduces documentation errors to zero
– Integration of all lab instruments provides a “direct to database” environment for real-time compliant data capture.
Other presentations profiled SmartLab integrations with:
- Thermo Atlas CDS™
- Agilent ChemStation CDS
- PerkinElmer TotalChrom™ CDS
- Applied BioSystems SQL* LIMS®
- Labware LIMS
- Thermo SampleManager LIMS™
- SAP® and SAP QM (Quality Module)
For additional program details go to http://www.imacs-world.com/. For a copy of the proceeding abstracts send an email request to mailto:info@imacs-world.com and include your name, company and email address. To learn more about the SmartLab GMP Electronic Notebook System attend one of our monthly web seminars. Register at http://www.velquest.com/seminars/.
About VelQuest Corporation
The VelQuest SmartLab GMP Electronic Notebook System is an innovative software platform designed to provide the foundation for compliance-based activities in the life science markets. The core software embraces the FDA’s “cGMPs for the 21st Century: A Risk Based Approach” initiative, and supports the company’s SmartLab™ Applications for a fully compliant electronic laboratory, SmartShell™ 21 CFR Part 11 remediation software, and SmartBatch™ manufacturing batch record system.
Founded in January, 1999, VelQuest Corporation provides a growing suite of unique products to help transform regulated industries from labor-intensive, paper-based operations to automated, efficient systems, with greater confidence in their compliance than ever before possible.
VelQuest, SmartLab, SmartShell and SmartBatch are trademarks of VelQuest Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective companies.
