Lab Efficiency: Eurofins Scientific's Instrument Management Software
Challenge
Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods for evaluating the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, and purity of biological substances and products. They also offer innovative clinical diagnostics. However, the systems they were using for performing lab tests were becoming obsolete. Blome, the system they used for doing lab analysis, was complex to manage and the process of testing the substances was very slow.
Since Eurofins is a very large company with over 900 laboratories around the world, it is very hard to integrate every lab site into the same central testing system. A lot of the time, Eurofins is using small local laboratories as its subsidiaries and provides them with the support they need for operations.
Because of this, some of the local lab sites are still operating on their individual testing systems. This is making communication between the center and local lab sites very complicated and slow.
Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods for evaluating the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, and purity of biological substances and products. They also offer innovative clinical diagnostics. However, the systems they were using for performing lab tests were becoming obsolete. Blome, the system they used for doing lab analysis, was complex to manage and the process of testing the substances was very slow.
Since Eurofins is a very large company with over 900 laboratories around the world, it is very hard to integrate every lab site into the same central testing system. A lot of the time, Eurofins is using small local laboratories as its subsidiaries and provides them with the support they need for operations.
Because of this, some of the local lab sites are still operating on their individual testing systems. This is making communication between the center and local lab sites very complicated and slow.
Solution
One of the lab sites in France had the initial idea for the new software system for lab testing. However, since software development is not their main area of work, Eurofins was not able to develop it alone.
That is how Eurofins and Enlight Engineering started cooperating.
The solution was to create a new, more sophisticated software system that could be used by any lab site. Lab technicians should be able to use this software system to navigate any lab instrument for performing the tests.
This new software system was named ICRV (Instrument Connect Result Validation) and was partially built on the old system, Blome, by our developers.
One of the lab sites in France had the initial idea for the new software system for lab testing. However, since software development is not their main area of work, Eurofins was not able to develop it alone.
That is how Eurofins and Enlight Engineering started cooperating.
The solution was to create a new, more sophisticated software system that could be used by any lab site. Lab technicians should be able to use this software system to navigate any lab instrument for performing the tests.
This new software system was named ICRV (Instrument Connect Result Validation) and was partially built on the old system, Blome, by our developers.
Results
This new ICRV system brings many advantages compared to the old system:
- It gives the opportunity for the operator to give orders to the lab instruments through the system application
- Test results come out sorted, compared, and nicely displayed so they are easier to interpret.
- It operates much faster. Since performing tests takes less time, the new system can perform a lot more tests for the same amount of time in comparison to the old system.
- It is much easier to integrate it in any lab site than the old system
- It does not leave room for any mistakes
This new ICRV system brings many advantages compared to the old system:
- It gives the opportunity for the operator to give orders to the lab instruments through the system application
- Test results come out sorted, compared, and nicely displayed so they are easier to interpret.
- It operates much faster. Since performing tests takes less time, the new system can perform a lot more tests for the same amount of time in comparison to the old system.
- It is much easier to integrate it in any lab site than the old system
- It does not leave room for any mistakes