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LIMS is a software package of laboratory management. It offers assistance for control operations and data management, and assures checks within the company and in production workshops. LIMS behave like an information system taking into account the increase in volume of information to be processed, of the necessary reactivity, productivity constraints, and the quality to which companies must conform to remain competitive.

LIMS functionalities are as follows:
  Analysis management and associated sequences
  Technical data management of articles: identification, definition, suppliers...
  Samples management
  Comparative data analysis
  Method management: operative modes of analysis
  Lot traceability management
  Workload management: unit time per analysis, equipment capacity
  Cost management: consumables, hourly rates
  The recording of incidents: comments, anomalies
  Supplier surveillance: qualification/approval, frequency of analysis, results
  Quality document management
  Communication in the direction of equipment and information systems, ERP, MES, CAMM, MSP
  Compliance with standards (FDA), (21CFR Part 11) as well as with traceability demands
  Simulation and planning of the workload, visualisation of resources available
  Help with decision making

LIMS is aimed at sectors of industry such as the food industry, pharmaceutical and chemical, and more particularly, monitoring of the environment (water analysis). More than just a simple follow-up of samples, today, LIMS is a global solution of company data management.