Minerva's LIM – Laboratory Management module is designed to cater to all sectors; however, it is used extensively in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The module's distinguishing feature is that it positions the laboratory not as a separate island, but as part of an integrated business management suite operating on a single database .
Outstanding talents
Reporting hazards and toxicity from the prescription.
Minerva reports the hazard and toxicity status of a product recipe by calculating it solely from the recipe, without physically producing the product . The formulator sees how the classification changes as they modify the recipe, all on the same screen.
This capability eliminates the traditional produce-test-correct-reproduce cycle. The result is directly measurable: fewer trials, less raw material consumption, lower external testing costs, and significantly shorter development time.
Comprehensive GHS infrastructure
All details of the United Nations' Globally Harmonized System are available in the system: hazard classes and categories, hazard and precautionary statements, pictograms, signal words, cutoff values and concentration limits, calculation rules, and bridging principles.
Production of multilingual safety data sheets
The 16-section safety data sheets, as outlined in the United Nations regulation, are automatically generated from product data in multiple languages . When the prescription or regulation changes, a new version for all languages is created in a single operation.
Formulation-defined recipe structure
Formulation descriptions can be applied to prescription items; the functional role of each component is defined in the system. This structure enables the suggestion of alternative raw materials, the comparison of prescriptions at the architectural level, and the establishment of hazard-focused substitution scenarios.
Full integration with product development projects.
The laboratory operates in full integration with product development projects. Trial, sample, analysis results, cost, and compliance documents are collected under the same project record; data is not manually transferred to decision-making centers.
The advantage of a single database.
For Turkish manufacturers selling products to the EU market, this regulation is directly binding: the determining factor is not the origin of the product, but whether or not it has been placed on the market . Products that do not comply cannot enter the market, even if they are technically flawless.
The real challenge in the field isn't understanding the regulations, but finding the data . Material information is in the product tree, supplier declarations are in email backlogs, certificates are in shared folders, and packaging information is in marketing files. This disorganization turns compliance work into an archaeological excavation, starting from scratch each time.
Therefore, the first step in compliance preparation is not collecting documents, but gathering product data into a single structure . A business with a portfolio management infrastructure addresses the compliance obligation not as an additional project, but as a view of its existing data.
Modern architecture
Minerva's next-generation systems have been developed with up-to-date technology since 2015. They are web-based, work in all browsers, are offered as a service in the cloud, and run on an Oracle database. Artificial intelligence language models are used extensively as assistants and agents.
Minerva modules that support laboratory management.
LIM
Laboratory Management
The core of the laboratory workflow includes: sample, method, specification, analysis, result, equipment, calibration, certification, and more.
PLM
Product Management
Product master data, recipe and formulation structures, variant management, revision and change control.
QAM
Quality Management
Deviation, nonconformity, corrective and preventive action, audit and document control processes.
MFE
Production & Manufacturing
Release based on production batch, process record, batch traceability, and laboratory results.
PPM
Project Management
Product development projects, stages, resource planning, and decision-making processes.
EHS
Environment, Health & Safety
Hazardous materials inventory, exposure controls, waste management, and occupational safety records.
LMM / LWM
Materials and Warehouse
Reagent, standard, and consumable stocks; lot, shelf life, and storage compliance tracking.
PRC
Supply
Supplier quality, incoming material inspection, and supplier safety data sheet management.
DOC
Digital Asset Management
A versioned archive of method files, certificates, safety data sheets, and validation documents.
BIS
Reporting & Analysis
Laboratory dashboards, turnaround times, control cards, and user-defined reports.
HRM
Human Resources
Personnel competency records, training plans, and document validity tracking.
AIS / IoT
AI Studio and Internet of Things
AI-powered querying and recommendations; data collection from device and environmental sensors.
FTM
Foreign trade
Export documents, including information on documentation and transportation classification in the target market language.
B2B / WSM
E-Business and Web
Access to certificate and security data sheet from the customer portal; automatic release of the latest version.
Bringing the demand into the system.
At Minerva, a new functionality request from a customer is first examined in terms of universal concepts. The developed solution becomes a permanent capability of the system, not a patch specific to a single customer. On the lab side, this approach has ensured that industry-specific needs are transformed into standard functions over time.