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News Release from: Thermo Fisher Scientific | Subject: SampleManager IDI
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 October 2003
Integration Enhanced Between LIMS and
Enterprise
Thermo Electron Corporation have announced the release of SampleManager IDI 2003, the latest generation of software integrating Thermo's SampleManager LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System).
Thermo Electron Corporation have announced the release of SampleManager IDI 2003, the latest generation of software integrating Thermo's SampleManager LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) and SAP AG's R/3 Enterprise, the leading Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system Combining Thermo's flagship LIMS with SAP AG 's R/3 Enterprise gives customers an enhanced ability to provide consistent quality-related information to the entire enterprise
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 24 Aug 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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To leverage the full benefits of modern ERP solutions, organizations require automated access to all aspects of their business, including the process laboratory.
Organizations interfacing LIMS with an ERP system can expedite the data flow between the laboratory and manufacturing, streamline data handling, and integrate data collection and reports.
SampleManager IDI, the first LIMS interface to be certified by SAP AG, was developed to address the needs of large-scale production facilities where integration with ERP systems is a business requirement.
SampleManager IDI 2003 enables SAP customers to fully utilize new functionality in R/3 Enterprise Quality Management (QM) module, while benefiting from the use of a specialist, functionally rich 'enterprise-centric' LIMS product within the laboratory.
A simple point-and-click interface allows creation of data through SampleManager or R/3 Enterprise, and the ability to easily map critical business needs into the LIMS database.
Graphical table-driven SAP objects and user-driven mapping procedures ensure easy access to accurate information in the LIMS, in a flexible, easily understood format.
SAP customers upgrading to a new version or customizing their R/3 Enterprise deployment can update the table-driven SAP objects in SampleManager IDI in a matter of minutes.
With an installed base of over 1,100 systems and around 45,000 daily users worldwide, Thermo's SampleManager is one of the most established and industrially robust LIMS on the market.
It is designed to support laboratory operations and integrate those operations into the corporate enterprise.
Industries served include manufacturing, chemicals and process, pharmaceutical, food and beverages, water, and environmental.
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