Industry QA/QC session

LIMS - a central source of information in industrial enterprises

Ø ERP, process control, LIMS, etc. - where to enter and store information?

Ø Global versus local - can a global enterprise have a centralized LIMS?

Ø Can R&D and QC use the same LIMS?

Ø Risks versus costs - what level of system validation is required?

Ø   Which tests can be contracted and which must be done inhouse?

Session moderator:

Kurt Fjellanger Manager Analysis and Modelling Technology / Manager Industrial IT, Skretting, Norway Kurt Fjellanger has a background as geochemist from his work for the French oil company Elf from 1980 to 1990. Since 1990 he was Laboratory Manager at Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre's reserach facilities. He also had functional responsibility for analysis work performed in Skretting feed factories globally. Since 2007 Kurt Fjellanger has been managing the Analysis & Modelling Technology department at Skretting ARC, and since 2008 his responsibility also incudes the role as Industrial IT Manager for the Business Group Skretting.

Speakers:

Paula Ylinen, Principal Scientist, Yara Suomi

Rolf Endre Orten, Process Engineer, Hustadmarmor AS

Erika Edwardsson, Functional Manager Quality Control organisation, Q-Med AB

Risks versus costs – what level of system validation is required