Thermo Fisher Scientific to implement Darwin LIMS at APP Pharmaceuticals
A purpose-built laboratory information management system (LIMS) developed by Thermo Fisher Scientific to help harmonise processes, automate operations and consolidate data management is to be rolled out across three sites with APP Pharmaceuticals.
A purpose-built laboratory information management system (LIMS) developed by Thermo Fisher Scientific to help harmonise processes, automate operations and consolidate data management is to be rolled out across three sites with APP Pharmaceuticals.
The Thermo Scientific Darwin LIMS will be used to consolidate information on pharmaceutical manufacturing R&D and QA/QC S facilities at APP's facilities in New York, Illinois and Puerto Rico.
The multi-phase project will initially involve the deployment of Darwin's inherent Environmental Monitoring functionality enabling facilities to move from manual systems onto an automated system for microbiological samples from the sterile manufacturing environment.
The second phase of the project will feature an integrated LIMS and Chromatography Data System (CDS) implementation followed by the third phase of the LIMS rollout including SAP interfaces across all sites.
APP Pharmaceuticals" products have helped millions of people in the US and Canada fight critical illnesses by providing a broad portfolio of multi-source and branded injectable pharmaceutical products, including difficult to manufacture and urgently needed medical products.
Hector Jimenez, senior director of quality operations at APP, said: "We selected Darwin LIMS because it offers purpose-built functionality for pharmaceutical manufacturing - the solution is extremely easy to configure and use for our environmental and our chemistry laboratories. In addition, we are confident that Darwin LIMS will provide efficiency improvements in the tracking of samples and in capabilities of trending data as well as compliance."