Going Paperless: Nexxis ELN Delivers Results in Your Industry

Nexxis ELN is an Electronic Laboratory Notebook for Routine Analyses that automates, controls and integrates day to day laboratory activities delivering real benefits to any laboratory, regardless of the industry they work in.

Discover the impact that going paperless with Nexxis ELN can have on laboratories in your industry.

Nexxis ELN for the Food & Beverage Industry

Analytical laboratories in the Food & Beverage industry face a multitude of regulatory, financial and operational challenges. Food & Beverage Laboratories

Pressures to control costs
Focus on product quality and safety
Need to continually improve the speed of product delivery
Increasing regulatory scrutiny (FDA, HACCP)

Nexxis ELN helps these laboratories meet these challenges by converting costly paper based processes into efficient, on-line electronic procedures that provide a higher level of control and automation for everyday routine analyses:

Control and document all aspects of analytical procedures
Provide fast on-line access to test data and information
Speed up delivery of results to decision makers

Organizations are under pressure to control costs

Lower shelf prices and rising commodity prices put pressure on companies in the food and beverage industry to look for potential cost reductions at every step of their processing chain. In the analytical laboratory, a cost-effective system for paperless management and execution of routine analyses can deliver cost benefits every day.

Going paperless eliminates ongoing costs for the purchase, long term storage and retrieval of paper documents.
Automation in an Electronic Laboratory Notebook reduces the amount of time analysts spend on manual processes,reducing operating costs and freeing up analysts to focus on their analytical work.
Electronic procedural control reduces the amount of time spent on secondary data review, reducing operating costs and freeing up analysts to focus on their analytical work.
Laboratories become more efficient, increasing their sample handling capacity without increasing personnel costs.

Food & Beverage laboratories need to maintain a constant focus on product quality and public safety

Cost reduction cannot take place if it is going to compromise product quality and public safety. Nexxis ELN creates a “right first time” environment for routine analyses that eliminates the possibility of manual errors and ensures that SOP requirements are met for every analysis.

Automated data collection and calculations eliminate the possibility of manual errors leading to wrong decisions on product release.
Control over procedural execution reduces or eliminates the possibility of inaccurate results due to analysts not following SOP requirements.
Control over procedural execution reduces the need to spend time on secondary review so accurate results are availableto decision makers, faster.
Real-time limit checking provides immediate feedback on OOS (Out of Specification) results so analysts can take immediate remedial action.

Food & Beverage companies need to continually improve the speed of product delivery

Getting finished products approved and released for shipment as quickly as possible is particularly important to the Food & Beverage industry both to ensure the freshness of products on the shelf and to support profitability.

Web based, real-time, on-line management of routine analytical procedures will help to speed up sample analysis and reporting.

Web-based, real-time, on-line management of electronic forms eliminates delays and frustrations associated with circulating paper documents.
Control over procedural execution creates a “right first time” environment that eliminates delays due to investigation andrework.
Integration with LIMS, ERP, MRP and other informatics systems speeds up delivery of results to decision makers.

The industry is facing increasing regulatory scrutiny (FDA, HACCP)

Both the HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) program and Title III of the Public Health Security and Bio-terrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 are examples of an increasing focus on the part of regulators and the industry to ensure the quality and safety of the food supply.

Nexxis ELN creates a secure and structured environment for controlling and automating routine procedures that helps organizations to maintain operational efficiency while meeting these new challenges.

An Electronic Laboratory Notebook provides worksheet control and automation that ensures and documents that all testing always follows SOP requirements.
On-line access to completed electronic worksheets speeds up problem investigation, problem resolution and regulatory audits.
Worksheet data and metadata can be stored in a searchable database providing online traceability of tests, results and even components (instruments, ingredients, chemicals, reagents, solutions, etc.) used in tests.
Full security implementation meets regulatory compliance requirements.

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