Pre-Interphex Showcase: Information Technology

Risk assessment
EtQ’s "Risk Assessment" enables users to create risk templates, charts, and histories and embed them into all EtQ software modules. Companies also can build risk portfolios for individual products, leveraging previous risk assessments to quickly identify appropriate risk levels and resolutions for quality and compliance events.

EtQ, Farmingdale, NY
www.etq.com
tel. 800.354.4476

Software update
Sparta Systems offers an enhanced training-management functionality for its "TrackWise" software. The "TrainingManager" functionality adds automation and configurable business-rules capabilities to supplement the software’s existing training-management capabilities.

Sparta Systems, Holmdel, NJ
www.sparta-systems.com
tel. 888.261.5948

Packaging-line software
Systech offers its "TIPS Engine v 8.0" packaging-execution system. This software uses a building-block architecture to represent the workflow of a packaging line. Data from each vision and line-management system stream quickly to critical packaging-line applications. The user interface's icons represent components and functions of the packaging execution system.

Systech International, Cranbury, NJ
www.systech-tips.com
tel. 609.395.8400

Organicsdatabase
The "PDF-4/Organics 2008" database is designed for rapid materials identification and contains 341,540 entries. The database includes drug active compounds, polymers such as starches and celluloses, common inorganic salts, excipients, and pharmaceuticals. The product features 2-D chemical structure representations of new pharmaceuticals and drug active substances.

International Centre for Diffraction Data, Newtown Square, PA
www.icdd.com
tel. 610.325.9814

Information management system
The "Darwin LIMS" software is specifically designed for pharmaceutical manufacturing, research, and quality laboratories. The system's batch- and product-oriented design allows research and production data to be logically organized, summarized, and reported. The software includes industry-specific standard functionality that is directly supported by Thermo’s helpdesk.

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Philadelphia, PA
www.thermo.com/informatics
tel. 215.964.6020