SampleManager LIMS – Put Control in the Hands of Your LIMS Users and Transform Your Business

SampleManager

TECHNICAL INFORMATION BULLETIN SampleManager LIMS

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SampleManager LIMS

™

Put Control in the Hands of Your LIMS Users and Transform Your Business

Find out more at thermoﬁsher.com/LIMS

Key Words

Congurability, Workow Design, Lifecycle Workow, Aliquots,

Attachments, Traceability, Process Mapping, Multi Sample Login,

Extensibility, Data Mining, Integration, Paperless Lab, Dashboards

Labs face pressure to be more efﬁcient and manage increased

throughput while simultaneously improving data accuracy,

analysis and reporting, all in an environment of stricter regulation.

SampleManager empowers lab users, putting control in the

hands of the right people at the point of decision.

Users can now build workﬂows to reﬂect their individual

laboratory processes and take ownership of workﬂow

management, allowing them to be synchronized with the

changing requirements of the lab, all without specialist IT

intervention.

Lab personnel can rely on the LIMS workﬂow to automate the

logical decisions driving their activities, improving throughput

by saving time and simplifying user interactions. System

conﬁguration and deployment is dramatically easier – and

therefore more valuable–for lab managers and the users they

support, resulting in a lower cost of ownership to the business.

SampleManager delivers workﬂow conﬁgurability, user-intuitive

multiple sample login, point and click extensibility and enhanced

data mining and tracking capabilities to beneﬁt a wide variety of

industries, including pharmaceutical QA/QC, oil and gas, contract

labs, food producers, environmental industries and others. In

each of these sectors, productivity and compliance must be in

constant balance, even as requirements shift.

SampleManager features advanced tools and user-interface enhancements

that improve laboratory process mapping, management and automation.

Workﬂow capabilities simplify implementation, allowing lab managers to easily

model their processes in SampleManager. As laboratory needs evolve, workﬂows

can be modiﬁed to change with them.

SampleManager puts decision-making power where

it belongs, in the hands of users who can make

logical choices about workﬂow, instrument integration

and data reporting for management metrics or

regulatory requirements. Ideally, today’s labs aren’t

only paperless; they are powerful enterprise drivers

for business transformation.

A workﬂow-driven LIMS delivers the agility necessary

for today’s businesses to transform as the regulatory

or economic environment requires.

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SampleManager makes workﬂow conﬁguration easier, with support for dynamic

hierarchies, empowering lab users and putting control in the hands of personnel

at the point of decision.

Users can now build workﬂows to reﬂect their individual laboratory processes,

and take ownership of workﬂow management.

Lab personnel can rely on the LIMS workﬂow to automate the logical decisions driving their

activities, improving throughput by saving time and simplifying user interactions.

Enhanced traceability features in

SampleManager, including the ability to

track aliquots and composites, enable ﬁner

control over samples and more granular

data for decision-making and compliance.

SampleManager LIMS, the most widely

deployed industrial LIMS in the world, is

unique in its delivery of version releases

that are built upon collective user

experiences and industry knowledge.

Each new release of SampleManager

ensures an upgrade path that respects

your previous investment and reﬂects

continuous customer input. Now

SampleManager allows you to take

advantage of that collected industry

knowledge while gaining the agility you

need to respond to changing business or

regulatory demands and make cost and

time saving decisions that can help you

transform your business.

SampleManager At a Glance

• Conﬁgurable workﬂow and extended

lifecycle features

• Simpliﬁed User Interface where users

can create multiple daily toolbars,

providing easy access to frequently

used functions

• New Sample Login giving more ﬂexibility

in splitting and merging samples and

aliquots

• Internet Explorer

features and

improved support for Windows

7 and 8

with user-friendly search syntax

• Files, web links and text notes/

attachments for any entity available

for inclusion in reports, ensuring

compliance over the sample lifecycle

Something For Everyone

For LIMS Users – Automated workﬂow

guides users through lab processes,

saving time and simplifying user

interactions

For Lab Managers – Easily conﬁgurable

workﬂow design allows the lab to adapt

to changing business or regulatory

requirements

For IT and Systems Administration –

.NET development environment for rapid

prototyping and easier integration

For Management – State-of-the-art data

visualization tools to monitor and measure

performance against key metrics

Workﬂows can be auto-documented by generating a WORD document that includes information

about the workﬂow deﬁnition, comments and all nodes used. Users can create multiple default

lifecycles to manage compliant and non-compliant processes within the same system.

Enhanced traceability features in SampleManager, including the ability to track aliquots

and composites, enable ﬁner control over samples and more reliable data for decision-

making and compliance.

Sample decisions can be predeﬁned at login, established at login based on new criteria, made

during processing, or made on an ad-hoc basis either at login or during processing.

Workﬂow

In SampleManager, workﬂow conﬁguration

is easier for users and lab managers to

design, with intuitive shortcuts for node

manipulation, drag and drop functions, and

multiple workﬂow types. A “Login” workﬂow

deﬁnes what will happen to a job, sample

or aliquot throughout its life. A “Method”

workﬂow is used to deﬁne the lifecycle for

speciﬁc tests such as managing preparation

steps or scheduling additional testing

when a scheduled test fails speciﬁcation

criteria. An “Entity” workﬂow can be

deﬁned for any entity that needs a lifecycle

associated with it, including instruments,

suppliers and stocks. A “Lifecycle” or

“Extended Lifecycle” workﬂow deﬁnes

a default or non-standard lifecycle for an

entity. SampleManager enables creation

of multiple lifecycles to separately manage

both compliant and non-compliant

processes within the same system. Both

“Entity” and “Lifecycle” workﬂow capabilities

are unique to SampleManager. Workﬂows

can be auto-documented, generating a text

document that includes information about

the workﬂow deﬁnition, workﬂow comments

and all the nodes used, which can form the

basis of customer validation collateral.

Samples and Aliquots

With SampleManager enhanced Internet

Explorer

features, workﬂow for samples

and aliquots can be predeﬁned at login,

decided at login or changed during

processing, giving users ultimate ﬂexibility

in managing samples. These ﬁles can also

be version controlled and are then available

for inclusion in any report required of

management or regulatory bodies. Internet

Explorer links may also be conﬁgured to

show linked data such as speciﬁc tests and

child samples.

Attachments

Files, web links and text notes can be

associated with any entity, stored and

uploaded to a conﬁgurable secure location.

Traceability

Data mining and tracking capabilities, with

new browse control abilities, allow users

to browse and search in a hierarchical

fashion. This key-word based capability is

applied across the system and is based

on the hierarchy setup introduced in

SampleManager 10. The addition of GUID

(Globally Unique Identiﬁers) data types

enhances security and ensures consistent

data when moving conﬁgurations from test

to live environments.

Find out how the hardest working LIMS in

the industry now gives LIMS users more

control to design and manage workﬂow

in the lab.

SampleManager is built with enhanced data mining and tracking capabilities,

including user deﬁned toolbars, shortcut keys and

Explorer-conditional formatting.

In SampleManager, attachments can be archived and related to speciﬁc

tests or samples, ensuring industry and regulatory compliance.

Users can create the reports and dashboards they need using new

design capabilities.

Find out more at thermoﬁsher.com/LIMS

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