Lonza released its latest MODA™ Software Version

Isabel Munoz-Willery — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 16:13:21 +0000

Lonza released its latest MODA™ Software, MODA-EM™ Version 3.3.

Lonza’s MODA-EM™ Version 3.3 software enables microbiology Quality Control (QC) laboratories to comply with new regulatory
guidelines.

QC facilities have to manage the daily challenges of QC monitoring while meeting changing regulatory compliance mandates. Lonza’s latest software release meets these evolving challenges with additional features focusing on data integrity, data visibility and data review.

MODA™ Version 3.3 delivers improved workflow with better analytics and reporting than ever before. Complete with a streamlined implementation and a risk-based validation solution, this software is the paperless solution for QC laboratories.

“It is essential for QC laboratories to be able to readily adapt to changing regulatory guidance. To aid this compliance MODA™ Version 3.3 features a new, fully searchable, audit trail that lets scientists easily track changes made through a sample’s lifecycle,” said Sinéad Cowman, EU Business Development Manager for Lonza Informatics.

The paperless efficiency features save time on many everyday activities, such as settling plate exposure times, organism identification and master data management and review.

The new software has been designed to meet end user requirements and features enhanced scheduling and calendar capabilities for simplified sample management. It also offers web-based dashboards so that metrics and results can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection. Scientists in QC laboratories are also supported with a validation documentation package that meets current industry standards and regulatory requirements, with execution and pre-validated service options available.

Within the Life Sciences industry, paper-based QC Micro laboratory processes can be expensive, error-prone, time and labor-intensive.

MODA™ Paperless QC Micro Solution

With the MODA™ Solution, organizations can automate quality control processes for regulated manufacturing and quickly advance their Green initiatives.

By combining automated scheduling, workflows, mobile data acquisition, device integration, and advanced analytics, the MODA™ Solution delivers efficiencies across your organization.

Gain complete insight into your manufacturing operations
Quickly access reports and trends on your quality data – at the click of a button

The MODA™ Solution encompasses automation of the full spectrum of QC activities including environmental monitoring (EM), utility testing, and product testing. MODA™ Software easily integrates with commonly used instrumentation and media found in manufacturing facilities, specifically production and laboratory areas. Organizations gain timely and accurate QC monitoring by utilizing location-based scheduling, mobile data collection, and paperless lab processing. MODA™ Software also delivers on-demand reporting, trending, and visualization capabilities to allow in-depth process analysis and ad hoc queries by decision makers.

The MODA™ Solution integrates with Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) to bridge the communication gap between QC and production.

Components Include:

MODA-EM^® — Lonza’s flagship software for paperless EM automates your QC Micro data collection and management (EM, utility, and product testing).

MODA-VIP^® — Visual Intelligence Portal provides improved insight into your manufacturing operation and testing data.

MODA-FDC^® — Field Data Capture lets you quickly collect, label (barcode) and track test samples for EM, utilities, and products at points of sampling within all critical areas.

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The future of the QC lab and its LIMS

PLA Team — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 16:55:20 +0000

Two big shifts in the focus of Lab informatics software are posing a challenge for the pharma industry. The first shift is due to the rise of the web and cloud-based services and their consequences regarding data management. The second axe of transformation is the increasing interest in process-analytic quality assurance as opposed to the end-product quality control that was predominant in the past.

This was one of the conclusions reached during the Paperless Lab Academy held in Amsterdam in 2014, as Tom Wilkie reports in his third Scientific Computing World article entitled "Is the end of the QC lab and its LIMS in sight?".

Laboratory management: from quality control to quality assurance

As the aforementioned article explains, the consequences of the current shift from end-of-line quality control to in-line quality assurance are important, both for the laboratory and for the vendors of lab informatics software. Jan Verelst from Siemens conveyed these implications through an eloquent question addressed to the Paperless Lab Academy audience: ‘Do we need to stay with the traditional QC laboratory?’.

Is the end of the QC lab and its LIMS in sight?

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