Establishment of industrial laboratories
Setting up or improving your laboratory
Having a laboratory can be an advantage to carry out the analysis and testing routines for assessing the yields or to measure important parameters for the manufacture of a product.
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Companies in all sectors benefit to first assess their needs and determine why they need a laboratory. Those who already have an interest have to wonder if the existing industrial laboratory filled his role well and if there is additional unmet needs.
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The tools for diagnosing operations and establishing the status of the situation are very useful when the time comes to make such decisions .
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Among the main motivations for setting up or improving an industrial laboratory are:
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The desire to have quick access to certain results or production data
Be able to demonstrate that you meet compliance requirements live and quickly
The preparation of technical sheets or specifications of your products
Accumulate historical data that serves to improve processes
To respond to requests or complaints from customers rapidly
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A laboratory that meets your needs
It is essential to determine what your needs are based on what you are manufacturing and what metrics you want to use as well as what are the analytical data needs that could result from the compliance requirements you have to meet . Above all, do n't forget your clients' requirements, which are often well structured and require you to provide them with certificates of analysis on a regular basis .
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What kinds of analysis will you favor ? It's wise to limit yourself to routine scans and / or include a few specific scans unless you have a big budget and a team of several people . Most food companies focus on routine testing, but there are exceptions.
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When you have several establishments , another practical solution is to centralize the most precise and specific laboratory analyzes and to leave the routine analyzes to each establishment . There are of course several things to consider before making such organizational choices .
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Subcontracting in one or more external laboratories is recommended when analyzes require overpriced equipment or analyzes which require complex or expensive installations such as the handling of pathogenic bacteria for example.
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Small or large laboratory?
Build on a solid needs analysis first and foremost.
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It is important to assess what it is costing you and how to make the most of it with what you want to implement or improve . Then evaluate the analyzes that you could or should subcontract and determine the best ratio of on-site analyzes to subcontracted analyzes .
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Subcontracting could allow you to:
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Focus on what you do best and what you are most effective at
You will save money by outsourcing analyzes that would be very expensive to carry out on site
To have access to very specialized services that you only need very rarely , and this, at a lower cost
Manage urgent situations in the event of a crisis for which results from external laboratories are required by the regulatory authority or customers
To have large quantities of products analyzed when your laboratory is not necessarily ready or equipped for it
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We can help you establish or improve your industrial laboratory so that you are able to reap the gain as high as possible. This will simplify your approach in order to improve and to better manage your laboratory analysis needs while saving you money. This will facilitate the flow of laboratory data within your team and with regulatory authority representatives or customers . You will thus be able to continue to comply with regulatory and normative compliance requirements and those of your customers (including those stipulated in the GFSI standards) with complete peace of mind.
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