Laboratory Management

Integration with Product Development Projects

The laboratory is both the engine and the gatekeeper of product development. However, in many organizations, the development project lives in one system, while the laboratory results reside in another; the project manager requests the results via email, and the formulator updates the table manually.

The bonds established by integration

PROJECT Request, scope, deadline FORMULATION Prescription versions ATTEMPT Laboratory production ANALYSIS Samples and results DECISION Door approval CLASSIFICATION Calculation from prescription TICKET Pictogram, H/P GBF / SDS Multilingual document LAUNCH Product registration As soon as the recipe changes, the upstream testing and analysis plan, and the downstream classification, labeling, and safety data sheet are recalculated. When deciding on a gate, the technical results, cost, hazard profile, and compliance document status are all displayed on the same screen. At the launch event, product registration, production recipe, quality specification, and compliance documents are all put into effect together.

Scope

  • Project-experiment linkage: Recording which development project each laboratory experiment belongs to; allowing all experiments and results to be viewed from the project screen.
  • Automated analysis request: The relevant sample and analysis plan are automatically generated when the trial is produced.
  • Data feeding to decision gates: Presenting technical results, cost, hazard profile, and compliance status on the same screen at the gate meeting.
  • Requirement traceability: Tracking which analysis result met each customer or regulatory requirement.
  • Project cost: The project cost includes laboratory workload, raw materials consumed, and external testing fees.
  • Knowledge accumulation and reuse: Past attempts should be searchable; it should be possible to find out how a similar problem has been solved before.
  • Launch phase: Transferring the approved recipe to the production recipe, the laboratory specification to the quality control specification, and the compliance documents to the product registration.
Why is this integration critical?

The most common delays in product development projects stem not from a technical difficulty, but from the transfer of information : a test is conducted but the result is not recorded in the project log; a formula is approved but its transfer to the production recipe takes weeks; the product is ready but the safety data sheet is pending and shipment cannot be made.

In an integrated system, these manual transfers are eliminated. The launch date depends not on the speed of the slowest manual transfer, but on the actual technical readiness.
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