Thermo Electron Corporation has introduced significant updates to Darwin LIMS, its commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) laboratory information management system (LIMS) designed specifically for pharmaceutical manufacturing r&d and QA/QC.
Darwin version 1.1 features extensive interfacing capabilities to provide tight integration with SAP for rapid batch disposition and release and streamlined workflow, plus new historical data trending and charting functionality. The embedded charting and trending for product stability testing allows for real-time data review and rapid reporting. Darwin 1.1 has also been optimised to operate on the Oracle 10g platform.
By incorporating SAP and additional systems interfacing capabilities, as well as batch and product management capabilities, customers are better prepared to integrate Darwin.
Dave Champagne, vice-president and general manager of Thermo's informatics business, said: "Version 1.1 addresses some critical needs and clearly positions Darwin as the definitive solution for the pharmaceutical industry. As a COTS solution, Darwin lowers the cost, risk and time associated with implementation, training, validation, maintenance and upgrades of traditional LIMS."
Thermo is able to assist customers with migration to Darwin 1.1 using Migration Agent, a combination of professional services and software that reduces risk and overcomes business challenges when migrating. Migration Agent employs services personnel for project management and implementation, as well as an extract, transform and load (ETL) tool that has been configured specifically for Darwin 1.1.