Food and beverage industry managers and laboratory professionals can improve laboratory process mapping, management and automation with new Thermo Scientific SampleManager 11 tools and user-interface enhancements. The newest, most configurable version of one of the world’s most widely deployed laboratory information management systems (LIMS) is featured at the Palmer House Hilton during AOAC’s Annual Meeting & Exposition, being held August 25-28, in Chicago.

SampleManager 11 empowers users by giving control to personnel at the point of decision throughout the food production process, enabling them to:

• Connect quality and product data from the lab to enterprise systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and manufacturing execution systems (MES), achieving a paperless operations management infrastructure
• Build workflows to reflect individual laboratory processes without an IT specialist
• Automate the logical decisions driving laboratory activities, improving throughput by saving time and simplifying user interactions
• Configure and deploy more easily, giving a lower cost of ownership to the business
• Enhance traceability to improve decision-making and ease compliance with regulations such as the U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act, EU food safety regulations and other regional requirements for importing and exporting food.
• Comply with international standards such as ISO 17025

“To enable today’s food and beverage laboratories to be more flexible, efficient and compliant than ever, software must empower users to create a paperless operations management framework across the connected enterprise, from raw materials handling to processing and packaging,” said Kim Shah, director of marketing and new business development, informatics, for Thermo Fisher Scientific. “All lab data comes with an associated cost, but it also has significant value to the business. SampleManager 11 integrates lab and production data and makes them available, accurately and rapidly, to ensure a business maximizes its return on investment. Today’s most advanced labs aren’t only paperless; they are powerful drivers for business performance transformation.”

SampleManager 11 helps food manufacturers take intelligent actions to improve the efficiency, productivity, consumer safety, brand integrity and cost-effectiveness of their operations. The LIMS delivers workflow configurability, user-intuitive multiple sample login, point-and-click extensibility and enhanced data analysis and tracking capabilities to benefit the food and beverage industry, where product quality, process efficiency and compliance must be in constant balance, even as requirements shift.

Thermo Scientific is one of the premier brands of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. More information on Thermo Scientific SampleManager 11 can be found here, or by visiting www.thermoscientific.com.

About Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With revenues of $13 billion, we have 39,000 employees and serve customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as in environmental and process control industries. We create value for our key stakeholders through three premier brands, Thermo Scientific, Fisher Scientific and Unity Lab Services, which offer a unique combination of innovative technologies, convenient purchasing options and a single solution for laboratory operations management. Our products and services help our customers solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics and increase laboratory productivity. Visit www.thermofisher.com.

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