Food & Beverage

Ensuring Quality At The Kitchen Table

Whether you grow, manufacture, supply, or distribute, the safety and quality of the products you deliver is vital to the world’s food supply chain. The STARLIMS Food and Beverage LIMS solution provides powerful and flexible tools to monitor processes, manage costs, and ensure regulatory compliance, so you can focus on delivering quality products that your customers deserve. From raw materials to the final product, the STARLIMS solution supports complete product tracking and traceability throughout the entire product lifecycle. 

Have Confidence In Compliance And Best Practices

• Comply with a wide range of different regulatory standards, including FSMA, HACCP, HARCP, GFSI, GLP, GMP, CODEX, European Law, and, 21CFR Part 11
• Use flexible reporting functions that meet the complex requirements of and external customers, including production of Certificates of Analysis (COAs)
• Access an entire sample history, display full audit trails, extract e-signature information, and much more
• Track and manage analyst training and certifications for tests and methods, and schedule courses and re-certification
• Create control charts, configure rules to track within the chart, and view the charts throughout the sample and product lifecycle. Automatically detect rule violations which can drive further actions on samples and tests. Advanced SQC and control charting are powered by Northwest Analytics (NWA)

Manage An Efficient Sample And Product Lifecycle

• Automate routine data analysis, sample lifecycle and complex calculations by eliminating the need for time-consuming manual data-entry and non-value added manual processes
• Configure triggers, sample points, re-sample and re-test workflows. Link to open investigations through the integrated investigation module
• Generate worksheet/list, result calculations and result specifications comparisons
• Manage protocols, sample inventory, studies, pulling schedules, conditions and locations for both manufacturing and formulation stability studies
• Ensure that all scheduled samples are properly collected and tested with the environmental monitoring module and efficiently manage sample points using visual floor plans
• Create recipes and batches associated with recipes, and test them through standard QM workflows. Download the formulation management application brochure (PDF, 386 KB)for capability details
• Outsource tasks with third-party (internal or external) laboratories, including an entire lifecycle to allow the shipment of samples to third-party laboratories for testing 

Manage Materials and Equipment

• Store, manage and control all documents with version control associated with the workflow.
• Manage the storage of samples and storage locations. Store your samples in hierarchical storage containers and view the contents of each level of the storage hierarchy
• Manage suppliers of raw materials and laboratory consumables
• Manage all laboratory materials, inventory items and consumables and its associated workflows
• Track and document equipment, QC standards, calibration and maintenance events
• Schedule equipment maintenance and calibration events, and automate alerts
• Generate equipment control charts and monitor instrument variations over time

Streamline and Automate Day-to-Day Logistics

• View key performance indicators, including bottlenecks, sample turnaround times, and out-of-specifications samples to make resource decisions
• Assign work to analysts and equipment based on availability and workload
• Interface to several systems for data sharing, including third-party systems SAP, Empower, Chromeleon, and other internal enterprise systems (EDMS/DS, MES, etc.)
• Future-proof system: Changes to business needs and working practices can be readily supported and implemented without losing existing functionality or data
• Integrate instruments without the need for complex programming. Parse serial data from an instrument, or from files containing instrument results, directly into fields in the LIMS
• Manage customer information, and set up projects for laboratory testing, including test pricing, invoicing, and schedules for sampling and testing

Many Types of Labs Use STARLIMS

STARLIMS food and beverage customers include:

• National and regional food and safety monitoring authorities
• A governmental agricultural authority
• A global confectionary brand’s research center
• A premium spirits manufacturer's quality control laboratories
• A multinational beverage manufacturer's quality control laboratories
• Food additives and condiment producers
• World-leading soup/condiments manufacturer's quality control laboratories
• Leading dairy and cheese manufacturers
• World-leading nutraceutical manufacturers