Thermo Unveils Darwin - Commercial-Off-the-Shelf LIMS For Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Philadelphia, PA - Thermo Electron Corporation, the world leader in analytical instruments and informatics, announces the commercial availability of Darwin LIMS, the latest evolution in commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) laboratory information management systems for pharmaceutical manufacturing R&D and QA/QC.

A natural selection for the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, Darwin has been developed to lower the cost, risk and time associated with implementations as well as the total cost of ownership (TCO) of modern LIMS solutions.

"Thermo is responding to customer demands for software solutions that address the specific needs of their laboratories without extensive customization," said Dave Champagne, vice president and general manager of Thermo's informatics business. "This is especially important to our pharmaceutical customers because of that industry's complex testing, workflows and regulatory requirements. They need solutions that are easy and rapid to deploy and adopt, easily upgraded and seamlessly integrated into their organizations."

Darwin fulfills many customer requirements "out-of-the-box" by providing deeper, more targeted pharmaceutical functionality compared to traditional LIMS. Users will find dissolution, content uniformity, stability management, product management, batch management and system interfacing as dedicated capabilities within Darwin - fully supported by Thermo's helpdesk and covered in depth in the user manual. The inclusion of such functionality as standard in the base system significantly reduces on-site customization, resulting in reduced costs, risks and time associated with implementation, training, validation, maintenance and upgrades.

In addition, Darwin is not limited to a restrictive sample-centric workflow. Darwin's product- and batch-oriented workflows allow R&D and production data to be logically organized, summarized and reported, allowing users to work more effectively and providing managers with a broad view of the entire manufacturing process.

Darwin has been created using the Microsoft .NET framework. This enables users to extend the system using industry standard tools, not a proprietary language that the vendor must teach key users of the system how to program.

Source: Thermo Electron Corporation