October 10, 2011 – Thermo Fisher Scientific announced Water and Environmental LIMS, developed for laboratory professionals working in water and environmental testing laboratories. The Water and Environmental LIMS is preconfigured to enable customers to comply with water and environmental regulatory guidelines and requirements, and it is built on the comprehensive functionality provided by the company’s Scientific SampleManager LIMS.
Water and environmental testing laboratories face unique challenges with delivering accurate, consistent and traceable results. In the current economic environment, it’s more important than ever to standardize workflows and processes that facilitate regulatory compliance, ensure public safety and monitor quality throughout the entire sampling, testing and reporting process. The Safe Drinking Water Act, and the subsequent release of the EPA’s Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment, puts pressure on municipal, state and privately owned water facilities to remain in compliance with mandatory limits for an increasing array of contaminants.
Water and Environmental LIMS offers tools and functionality to enable lab managers to deliver the defensible data necessary to meet the compliance requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act. Water and Environmental LIMS helps laboratory professionals make faster, more informed decisions at all levels of the organization, delivering information needed to manage laboratory processes and respond to the most current regulatory and business demands.
Purpose-built functionality helps labs: • Establish protocols and documentation methods that meet NELAC compliance requirements and ISO 17025 guidelines • Automate reports and records to ensure full traceability • Improve lab and workflow efficiencies Developed in conjunction with environmental experts for ISO 17025 and NELAC requirements, Water and Environmental LIMS has built-in functionality designed for workflows found in water and environmental labs. Pre-defined test methods, batch sequences, regu¬latory reports and other templates allow customers to reduce administration overhead, cost and implementa¬tion time.
In addition, comprehensive dashboard functionality addresses the regulatory and operational needs of three distinct but interrelated aspects of a laboratory’s business: personnel, quality assur¬ance and the customer.
