Millipore
OpenSource Connections helped Millipore upgrade its laboratory information management system (LIMS) utilizing a mix of onsite and offsite resources. OpenSource Connections provided testing resources and development resources to work onsite in Dundee, Scotland with laboratory end users and integrated its development team in Brazil to produce a product that had to be approved by corporate leaders at Millipore’s headquarters in Billerica, Massachusetts.
The Scotland-based lab analysts and the US-based scientists heading the projects required an easier and clearer way to track shared data. The LIMS allowed for the easy exchange of information related to the testing of various drug compounds on kinases for Millipore’s drug manufacturing customers. The LIMS rolled up test data, due dates, customer requirements, such as test setup and layout, and results.   The LIMS also allowed for the specification of business rules, which when applied to test result data, automated a great deal of the quality assurance work. Finally, the LIMS facilitates the exportation of data to Excel, and builds charts in Adobe PDF, the customer’s preferred formats.