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Vendor News
New SOP software from Waters
Waters Corporation recently expanded its informatics open architecture operating
platform, anchored by the Waters NuGenesis Scientific Data Management System
(SDMS), to address predominately manual activities required to perform standard
operating procedures (SOPs) for analytical methods or tests.
The Waters NuGenesis SDMS Intelligent Procedure Manager is a workflow software
package designed to guide a laboratory analysts through routine, comprehensive
method SOPs and integrate results with a chromatography data system, such as
Waters Empower 2 Chromatography data software.
"Waters' laboratory informatics solutions inherently promote an open architecture
that invites collaboration among instruments, vendors and departments,"
said Phil Kilby, Senior Manager, Informatics Marketing for Waters Division.
"As the only laboratory software package able to manage and interrogate
scientific data from any source, NuGenesis SDMS is the nerve centre of this
open informatics platform. Leveraging the well-founded benefits of open architecture,
Waters' platform is designed to allow laboratories to bring instruments and
software online compartmentally until full enterprise-level integration is realised."
The Intelligent Procedure Manager is the latest such solution being introduced
at Pittcon 2008. "Supporting a 'right the first time' philosophy, Waters
estimates that using the Intelligent Procedure Manager to automate and integrate
method SOPs could potentially reduce cycle times by as much as 50 percent compared
to a traditional paper trail, with fewer opportunities for errors," continued
Kilby. The Intelligent Procedure Manager meets the need of today's manual or
paper-driven SOP guidelines that still dominate certain laboratory functions.
For example, instrument checks, standards and sample preparation, solvent and
mobile phase separation, analyses review, result approval, and final product
release are all prone to time inefficiency and data transcription errors because
they depend on paper guidelines.
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