LIMS in Petrochemical& Refinery IndustriesSteve Kemp – Channels Manager

ThermoFisher Scientific

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This Presentation

• Business Requirements

• Review of LIMS Solutions

• Conclusion

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Business Requirements

• Drive down Laboratory, IT and Integration costs• Deliver Performance Metrics for Management decision making

• Optimise use of stocks, instruments and personnel

• Efficient “Scheduling” of sample collection

• Increase Automation, reduce paper based operation

• Reduce Implementation, Upgrade, IT Management and Training overheads

• Standard IT Infrastructure

• Web and/or Windows Client deployment

• Ease of Use – Improve User Productivity

• Knowledge Transfer & eLearning

• Built for Purpose (Little or no Customisation)

• Facilitate integration

• Desktop Applications

• Instruments

• Process Systems, Enterprise Systems, .....

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Business Requirements

• Drive down Laboratory, IT and Integration costs• Deliver Performance Metrics for Management decision making

• Optimise use of stocks, instruments and personnel

• Efficient “Scheduling” of sample collection

• Increase Automation, reduce paper based operation

• Reduce Implementation, Upgrade, IT Management and Training overheads

• Standard IT Infrastructure

• Web and/or Windows Client deployment

• Ease of Use – Improve User Productivity

• Knowledge Transfer & eLearning

• Built for Purpose (Little or no Customisation)

• Facilitate integration

• Desktop Applications

• Instruments

• Process Systems, Enterprise Systems, .....

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Business Requirements

• Drive down Laboratory, IT and Integration costs• Deliver Performance Metrics for Management decision making

• Optimise use of stocks, instruments and personnel

• Efficient “Scheduling” of sample collection

• Increase Automation, reduce paper based operation

• Reduce Implementation, Upgrade, IT Management and Training overheads

• Standard IT Infrastructure

• Web and/or Windows Client deployment

• Ease of Use – Improve User Productivity

• Knowledge Transfer & eLearning

• Built for Purpose (Little or no Customisation)

• Facilitate integration

• Desktop Applications

• Instruments

• Process Systems, Enterprise Systems, .....

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Business Requirements

• Improve Speed and Quality of Information for Decision Making• More “Useful” information

• Faster Turnaround Time (TAT) for Improved Customer Service

• Deliver Information to where it is needed in the form it is needed

• Assured Quality

• Improved Productivity

• Support for ISO17025 compliance

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This Presentation

• Business Requirements

• Review of available Solutions

• Conclusion

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Deliver Performance Metrics. Management Decisions

• Customers demand:• Easy monitoring of KBMs

• Data mining

• Fast, simple interpretation of data

• SampleManager 10.0 includes interactive charting controls:• Embedded explorer forms for flexible data selection

• Interactive charts:2D Pie, 3D Pie, Point, Area, Bar,

Line, Stacked Line, Stacked Bar, 3D Bar

• Dashboards can provide interactiveperformance monitoring capability

2D3D

Area

Line

Bar

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Deliver Performance Metrics. Management Decisions

Dashboard to show Laboratory

Performance over time

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Deliver Performance Metrics. Management Decisions

Dashboard to show Laboratory Performance over time, By Project etc

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Optimised use of stocks, instruments and personnel

Dashboards to manage stock by type

Dashboards to manage stock by location

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Optimised use of stocks, instruments and personnel

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Increased Automation, reduce paper based operation

• Barcoding• Sample IDs

• Sample Points IDs

• Location IDs

• Operator IDs

• Instrument IDs

• Software function IDs

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Label Templates

Label design, includes extensive label stationary and barcode formats

Label templates can be associated with any

entity – e.g. Samples, Hazards, Sample

Points, Instruments

Design Option allows you to generate the layout of your label

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Reduce Implementation, Upgrade, IT & Training costs

• Standard IT Infrastructure• .NET Architecture

• Standard technologies for configuration and customisation

• Standard technologies for Integration (OPC, XML etc.)

• Web and/or Windows Client deployment

• Planned and developed upgrade paths

• SQL Server and Oracle database support

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Ease of Use

• The Industry requires:• Up-to-date, flexible user environment

• Personalised profiles

• Graphical Dashboards

• SampleManager 10.0 includes modern data visualization controls:• Interactive gauges to represent numeric values

• Picture buttons and hotspots

• Hyperlinks and web pages

• All of which can be used to create user or role

specific landing pages

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Ease of Use

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Ease of Use

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Skins

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Knowledge Transfer and eLearning

• Professional Training for Core Team• IT

• Laboratory Super Users

• On Site or at Regional Training Centres

• Standard Functionality, Documentation. Certified.

• Operational Training• Core Team

• Internal Support Group

• eLearning• New employees

• External Users / Customers

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Standard Functionality. Little or no customisation

• Built for Purpose• Help Files

• User Manuals

• System Management Manuals

• Training Courses

• Test Scripts

• Instrument Integration Templates

• Process System connectivity• AspenTech

• OSI PI

• Yokogowa

• Honeywell

• ...

• ERP connectivity• SAP

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Facilitate Integration

• How much of your time is spent doing this?

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According to SDI’s latest survey – a great deal.

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Integration Manager

• One solution• Instruments

• Process Systems

• ERP

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Improved Quality of Data

• Usefulness

• Validity and Confidence

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Improved Quality of Data delivery

Graphs can be easily added to plot result trends and visualise data

This example uses no code at all –just data binding to prompts

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Improved Quality of Data delivery

• “Useful” Information from Data

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Improved Quality of Data delivery

Maps can be used to display locations or sampling points using positional information

Left Clicking on the pin updates the sample

results

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Improved Quality of Data delivery

Emissions Monitoring shown as “bubbles” on a map – the size and colour of the circle

relates to the results from the Sample Point

Clicking on the hotspot takes you to the menu option/data of your

choice

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Improved Quality of Data delivery

“Bubbles” on a floor plan – the size and colour of the circle relates to the result

values from the Sample Point

Gauges can be used to represent pertinent parameters such as the room temperature

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Improved Quality of Data delivery

Charts can be overlaid, and

different styles can be

mixed and matched

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Assured Quality – ISO17025

• Instrument Calibration Servicing and Maintenance (ICMS)

• Management of Control Sample Exceptions

• Management of Stocks, Standards and Reagents

• Management of Training Records

• Storage of Measurement of Uncertainty

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Operator Training

Training records are held against the Operator

Preparations Instruments

Required Training is held against the Analysis

Trained Operators are determined and shown

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Operator Training Runtime

A new privilege controls which users can override training records for exceptional circumstances

Results are read only if the operator is correctly trained

A mandatory comment is enforced when the override

option is used

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Measurement Traceability

• Instrument, Operator and Date are stored against results• Gives the exact instrument configuration and state• Shows who was operating the instrument

• Calibration samples linked to instrument

This completes the circle – we can determine which instrument was involved with a reading

and what state it was at. We can also prove that the operator was trained in it’s use

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Sample Scheduling

Schedule record allows you to group together multiple Sampling Points

Analysis / Test schedules under each Sample Point and assigned a frequency

Control when a schedule is active and if it is grouped

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Sample Scheduling

Predict Sampling for a time range

Allows refinement before saving

Each Sample Point has a different

colour

Calendar can be viewed by month,

day, week etc

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This Presentation

• Business Requirements

• Review of LIMS Solutions

• Conclusion

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Petrochemical LIMS Summary

• Compliance Enhancements

• Extensive improvements across the system making life easier to be compliant

§Report and Label Design

• The next level in Report and Label generation

• First of many extensions using .NET components

§ Sample Point Scheduling

• Simple to build up routine scheduling plans

• Interactive and background login

§Data Visualization

• Designed to better represent your situations

• Provides powerful decision making screens

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Petrochemical LIMS Summary

• Reduced costs and improved Productivity• Graphical KPIs for Management control

• Optimised use of Resources. Stocks, Instruments, Personnel

• Efficient Scheduling and Planning or sampling and testing

• Automation...reduction in paper and transcription errors

• Integration from Instruments through to PIMS and ERP

• Lower Cost of Ownership

• IT Support

• Upgrades

• Ongoing Training

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Thank You

Steve Kemp– steve.kemp@thermofisher.com

Thermo Scientific, Booth 181

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Questions…?