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Blaze Systems recognizes and understands that for most organizations, the laboratory function is business critical and vital, and performance plays a key role in the success of the enterprise. LIMS is no longer only about the core LIMS functions that manage and optimize what goes on in the laboratory, but has potential impact on the overall effectiveness throughout the entire enterprise supply chain. "Making It Work" requires a LIMS supplier who has the products, services and experience to provide the extended LIMS functions and integration with external systems required to optimize the enterprise/supply chain. As this diagram illustrates, Blaze Systems provides a rich set of extensions and integration with external systems capable of doing just that. For the small enterprise that is unlikely to have multiple costly applications, BlazeLIMS provides credible extended functionality and associated benefits. For the larger enterprise, BlazeLIMS provides integration and interfacing with external systems.
BlazeLIMS Extended Functions include:
- User Qualifications - Track, manage and enforce LIMS (and other) personnel training.
- Statistical Control - Automatically or manually run control chart algorithms (Shewart, Western Electric,Westgard, Cusum) on lab methods/instruments and/or product quality and notify when excursions are detected.
- Shop Floor Control - Design, plan, schedule, execute manufacturing functions while tracking SOP's, materials, equipment and personnel availability and usage.
- Document/Content Management - Capture, track and manage versioned documents through life cycle processes, including process SOP's, recipes, lab methods, maintenance SOP's, raw measurement data, published final reports, etc. Allow complex expression search of contents.
- Manage Disposal - Monitor and enforce disposal of samples including special provisions for hazardous materials.
- Manage Specifications - Maintain, track, control and apply manufacturing, product, customer, or on-time specifications on quality results.
- Manage Reagents/Expendables - Order, receive, inventory, test, release, use, track, expire, and dispose of materials critical to laboratory (or other) functions. Insure proper use and inventory, and provide complete traceability of use.
- Track Raw Materials/Intermediates - Order, receive, inventory, test, release, use, track, expire, and dispose of raw materials and intermediates critical to manufacturing functions. Insure proper use and inventory, and provide complete traceability of use.
- Batch/Packaging/Recipe Management - Design, schedule, execute, track, and document manufacturing/formulation batches and other operations.
- Manage Products/Inventory/Release - Track, inventory, test, compare with specification, combine into lots, and release product or other materials, including skip lot and other manual and automated lot release mechanisms.
- Manage Orders - Take customer requests, provide quotes, take orders, execute associated function (testing, manufacture), pick, package, ship and invoice.
- Web Interface - Provide simplified customer interface to request product/testing and review status and results, organized and pre-configured according to customer (vs internal lab) view.
- Decision Support - Provide decision support information via everything from routine structured reporting to ad-hoc query. Provide roll ups into data warehouse to allow review of distributed LIMS as a unified business.
- Investigation/Query Tools/Reports - Provide an open ended and highly configurable set of tools to allow comprehensive information delivery in many forms and via many mechanisms.
- Stability Studies - Design, specify, manage, execute and report on shelf life stability studies and their associated protocols.
- Equipment Maintenance/Metrology - Track equipment usage, and monitor, track and enforce calibrations, pm's and validations.
- Instrument Interface - Automatically capture and store instrument result outputs to avoid costly and error prone transcriptions for simple devices (scales, moisture, etc.) and complex analyzers. Provide bi-directional interface where justified to pre-configure instruments for runs.
- Process Interface - Collect data from and send data to process monitoring and process historian systems to provided seamless view of the data to operators.
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