LIMS and chromatographic data acquisition in the manufacturing environment

Chromatographic analyses often make up the bulk of the tests performed in manufacturing laboratories. To fully automate a laboratory, the LIMS must work closely with the chromatographic data acquisition system. There are probably as many solutions to interfacing a data acquisition system to a LIMS as there are LIMS vendors. One solution that works well in a manufacturing environment is described in this paper. The authors explain what functions are needed in the front-end (the data acquisition end) and the back-end (the LIMS), and how the two systems can work together to manage the chromatographic laboratory data.