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Lab Manager™
Quality Control and Tracking

A complete laboratory management and quality control facility for use by chemists, technicians, raw materials managers and information systems professionals, Lab Manager™ provides a comprehensive range of facilities from sample input through to the transfer of QC data to the formulation system. Lab Manager ™ integrates NC Formulation software to determine targets and tolerances for product and material testing, and to provide up-to-date compositional analysis for ingredients by source.

It is suitable for use by both a central laboratory and multi-site operations with not only many production plants, but also more than one laboratory.

Designed to be used where needed

Close collaboration with nutritional specialists, laboratory managers, computing experts and universities ensures that leading edge research and techniques can be incorporated rapidly where relevance is proven

Key features include:

Links to the New Century™ formulation system for Plants, Raw Materials and Products
Production of a schedule of standard, required tests for Ingredients and Products
Definition of targets and tolerances for individual Ingredients and Products.
Generation of worksheets sorted by sample urgency/priority and by test method/type
Automatic raising of actions following an analytical result failing specified tolerances
Tracking and reporting of the status of any test or sample proceeding through the lab
Pricing and cost data held to enable collation of analysis costs for billing third party customers, or for internal pricing.
Comprehensive equation and scripting utility allows processing of ingredient compositional analysis prior to updating formulation system
Multi-site transfers and collation of information, so that samples may be tested at more than one laboratory and all data tracked and compiled together
Integration with the NC formulation Nutrient file for various methods of analysis

Lab Manager
features :

Integration with NC databases for total data management
Wide variety of reports for total sample tracking
Smart sample worksheets
User definable reports using a Report Generator

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