New SmartLab Adapter for Excel Enables Compliant, Advanced Calculations, Graphing Control and Charting for GLP/GMP Lab Operations
Execution System and ELN, announced today the availability of their SmartLab Adapter for Excel®. This adapter provides the compliant technical controls required by regulatory guidelines for any calculations used in product quality decisions for cGMP operations. When used in conjunction with the SmartLab automation platform, the Adapter for Excel provides analytical and observation data captured in the ELN to be automatically ported to a secure and qualified Excel workbook. The existing Excel formula engine operates on the data, with the resultant calculations returned to the ELN notebook – all without direct human access to the actual Excel workbook. This fully compliant solution leverages existing Excel workflows in your lab, without direct analyst interaction with the Excel spreadsheet itself. Key capabilities include:
- Advance Calculations in a Validated and Secure cGMP Environment
- Macro Functions for Complex Operations
- Auto-Graphing for Real-time Trending and Process Monitoring
- Data Conversion for Look-up Tables and Conversion of Primary Data to Resultant Data
- Security of the Calculation Process for cGMP Environments
- Compliant Automation For Your Existing Excel Spreadsheets
“The SmartLab Adapter for Excel was developed in conjunction with multiple global pharmaceutical, generic and biotech companies now deploying the SmartLab GMP Lab Execution System and ELN to their worldwide QC/QA plant operations” said Chris Decatur, VelQuest’s SmartLab GMP Electronic Notebook product manger. “Microsoft® Excel® is widely used for calculations in development and quality control labs worldwide. With the SmartLab Adapter for Excel, the use of Microsoft Excel in cGMP operations can now be automated within the context of the analytical method with assured compliant operation.” For more information on the SmartLab Adapter for Excel, request information at info@velquest.com.
About VelQuest
Founded in January, 1999, VelQuest Corporation provides a suite of configurable off-the-shelf software products to help transition regulated industries from labor-intensive, paper-based operations to automated, efficient systems with greater confidence in compliance than ever before possible.
The SmartLab TM solution uses VelQuest’s electronic Process Management & Compliance (ePMC™) Core Operating System that is an innovative “method-centric” software automation platform designed to provide the foundation for compliance-based activities in the life science markets. The software embraces the ICH Q-10 guidelines and the FDA’s “cGMP’s for the 21st Century: A Risk Based Approach” and Quality by Design (QbD) initiatives, and supports the company’s SmartLab TM Applications for a fully compliant electronic laboratory and SmartBatch ™ electronic Batch Record System. For more information, visit the Web site at www.velquest.com/ .
Microsoft and Excel are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA.
SmartLab and SmartBatch are trademarks of VelQuest Corporation, Hopkinton, MA.
