From QSIUK
Quicker Release Of Raw Materials And Products
The ability to speed up the release of raw materials into the production processes and finished products into the sales cycle can have dramatic effects on the business. Raw materials sitting in a warehouse waiting to be released are tying up money that could be used to generate interest; production held up waiting for material release just wastes time, resources and, of course, money.
Products waiting for release cannot be sold, which again ties up money: if faster release is achieved more revenue is generated, and timely invoicing can improve cash flow.
Generates more income and improves cash flow.
Easier Compliance
WinLims has been designed to aid compliance and to achieve and maintain accreditation to such schemes as ISO 17025. The human effort to achieve the standards required by the business, such as GLP and GMP etc,. is greatly reduced, which in turn saves money.
However the controls to enforce that the business remains compliant can save substantial amounts of money: for manufacturing businesses in the food, pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors, a non-compliant product getting into the market place can be very costly in terms of money, time and reputation.
Proves to your customers the quality of your processes and saves time and money.
Reduce Raw Material Waste And Product Scrap
Monitoring of formulations and production processes by WinLims can fine tune the manufacturing process to reduce raw material waste. Customer specifications can be associated with bulk products, so that when a batch is outside of the manufacturing specification, the system will automatically check viability against customer specifications and will place a disposition on the production batch to only allow sales to those specific customers.
Reducing raw material and product scrap saves money.
Increased Efficiencies
Significant efficiencies can be achieved by the use of WinLims functionality: instrument integration can save 1 to 2 hours per sample batch by automating the creation of the instrument’s sample queue and by acquiring the results directly into WinLims, without risk of typographical error.
The use of barcodes greatly enhances sample tracking, sample processing and sample storage, which leads to time savings and greater control of samples.
The automated production of reports such as certificates of analysis, non conformance, KPI’s (key performance indicators), statistical control, etc. can generate savings of 5 – 7 days per month.
Process automation within WinLims generates time savings and ensures that the business rules are adhered to when processing batches and samples. However if WinLims is integrated with your manufacturing systems the whole product life cycle process can be automated.
These efficiencies save time and money.
Improved Data Accuracy
There are many controls within WinLims which check the integrity of the results data, preventing erroneous data being entered, warning when results are entered if the result is out of specification so the technician can check it is a valid result; if a result is outside of an instruments detection limits again a warning is given, etc.
Technicians without qualifications for a particular analysis, cannot enter results for that analysis.
Instrument interfaces remove transcription errors.
Audit trails log all changes to results.
These controls enable you to prove the integrity and accuracy of your results data to your customers, this in turn improves their perception of your products and services.
Fast Decision Making
Fast decision making is of paramount importance within the manufacturing sector, WinLims can provide early warning of when processes are failing, such as when a production batch is outside of control limits. WinLims will also supply all of the relevant data about the issue, so that a decision to correct the issue can be made quickly and effectively.
It is difficult to put a fixed value on what fast decision making can save in monetary terms, but if it just prevented batches from going outside the sales specification and thus becoming unusable, then the savings are considerable.
Enhances Growth
All of the automation and efficiencies provided by WinLims enables significant increase in the throughput of samples and batches. This in conjunction with the effective sharing of data across the other business systems such as MRP (Materials Requirement Planning), ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) means that real growth can be achieved without increase in head count.
Growth without significant cost.
