Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)

The AgiLab platform integrates full sample lifecycle management. For example, in analytical testing and Quality Control (QC) labs, you can manage and analyse multiple samples types, such as:

• Environmental monitoring samples
• Raw materials
• Batch recipes
• In-process samples
• Finished products
• APIs

Our platform offers best-in-class features for managing samples with full traceability from creation and test results through to storage.

A regulated environment needs robust equipment management. Every piece of equipment that requires calibration based on the manufacturers schedule or the internal Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) of the laboratory should be calibrated at regular intervals. It is essential that the calibration results are recorded, along with calibration status, dates and availability of that instrument for use in the laboratories.

The AgiLab platform allows users to:

• Maintain multiple schedules for each instrument (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.)
• Manage preventive maintenance, calibration and qualification schedules
• Log unplanned maintenance
• Control the availability of instruments for test usage
• Record instrument usage logs for every sample or test
• Print instrument labels or integrates with third party labelling software

The AgiLab platform manages and facilitates work order between departments. Formulators, scientists and collaborators can manage the submission, receiving, tracking and reporting of results originating from lab work requests and test orders through an intuitive interface.

Direct collaboration between the requestor and the executor of the work: the analytical testing features include the ability to request one or more tests to be performed on one or more samples.

It allows laboratories to:

• Enter requests with key information through intuitive “wizards” and business rules
• Apply higher priority to specified samples and tests
• View the status and progress of requests

The AgiLab Platform manages and facilitates work order between departments. Formulators, scientists and collaborators can manage the submission, receiving, tracking and reporting of results originating from lab work requests and test orders through an intuitive interface.

Direct collaboration between the requestor and the executor of the work: the analytical testing features include the ability to request one or more tests to be performed on one or more samples. It allows laboratories to:

• Enter requests with key information through intuitive “wizards” and business rules
• Apply higher priority to specified samples and tests
• View the status and progress of requests

Specifications allow laboratories to ensure that products meet standards and customer-specific requirements.

The AgiLab platform automatically flags and immediately compares results in real time against defined specifications for immediate response. Alerts can be automatically generated to inform analysts if quality criteria are not being met and to:

• Centrally manage and control specification limits with business rules
• Check specifications throughout processes
• Log Out-of-Specification (OOS) occurrences through a rigorous workflow path
• Accept or reject batches
• Enforce Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and protocols

The AgiLab platform includes a module dedicated to the creation and full lifecycle management of stability studies. Each study can contain protocols defined with tests, time points as testing conditions and locations. It allows users to:

• Support the lifecycle of a stability study
• Alert an upcoming ‘pull’ date through a calendar view
• Automate the collation of data from all tests across all time points
• Generate stability summary reports
• Analyze trends and handle testing standards

The AgiLab platform helps to optimize your lab resources and streamline projects with resource management for managing the laboratory workload. This means managers can:

• Maintain resources workload across analysts and/or instruments
• Save time by assigning work to your analysts and instruments
• Reduce turnaround times
• Prioritize result deadlines
• Balance work between the available resources
• Improve performance with advanced Key Performance Indicator (KPI) monitoring

• Edit online with our embedded Office document editor
• Define workflow based document approval
• Assign tasks and manage their lifecycle
• Control document revision
• Search with full text capabilities

• Schedule and plan training
• Keep personnel informed about planned training
• Keep quality and training documents updated
• Only display specific techniques to trained personnel
• Allow only trained users to perform certain operations
• Generate a competency matrix report
• Integrate with external training management systems

• Register incidents such as deviations
• Enter specific metadata according to incident type
• Complete incident investigation
• Set actions to execute and monitor status
• Review and evaluation of incidents
• Integrate with external incident management systems or quality management systems

The AgiLab platform leverages Oracle technology to provide enterprise-ready, secure means for bi-directional interfaces such as web services, file exchange, database links and more. Typical integrations with external systems including, but not limited to:

• Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP)
• Chromatography Data Systems (CDS)
• Equipment calibration and metrology systems
• Enterprise Document Management Systems (EDMS)
• Quality Management Systems (QMS)
• Statistical analysis systems
• Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

AgiLab’s approach for instrument integration is to provide generic configurable interface mechanisms, rather than hard-coded integrations to a specific list of instruments. We provide out of the box plugins for:

• Waters Empower Chromatography Data System
• Mettler-Toledo LabX system

The AgiLab platform is a centralised repository for all structured and unstructured data means that, once captured, data is fully searchable and can be used for trending and reporting. The AgiLab platform allows you to:

• Collate results and other information across experiments and tests
• Generate summary information on the status of their projects and experiments
• Use business intelligence dashboarding
• Measure and report metrics and KPIs
• Deliver enterprise level system monitoring

In addition, our analytics capabilities are designed to deliver predictive analytics, natural language and semantic search capabilities to support big data and advanced analytics strategies.