Vendor:Nippon Control System Corporation

**Nippon Control System Corporation**
Type	Private Limited Company
Industry	Laboratory informatics
Headquarters	2-7-9, Shin-Yokohama, Kouhoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan
Number of locations	4
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Nobuyasu Horiuchi
Products	SimpLabo
Employees	183
Website	SimpLabo.jp

Nippon Control System Corporation computer control and data management software solutions, including the laboratory information management system SimpLabo.

History

The company was founded in 1981.^[1] Aside from the company's three Japan-based offices, a U.S. branch was opened in January 2007.^[2]

Technology and products

SimpLabo

SimpLabo is a web-based laboratory information management system (LIMS) "that comprehensively supports tasks in inspection facilities, such as making quotes for inspection requests, request acceptance, recording and sharing of inspection results, creating inspection reports, statistical processing, creating various documents, etc."^[3] the software is offered under the SaaS model.

Features

The following feature list(s) is/are derived solely from public, freely-available online information the vendor provides. A lack of a "Y" does not necessarily mean that the product doesn't have that feature. The lack of a "Y" could mean:

the vendor chose to not put relevant feature information online despite its existence in the product.
the vendor chooses to make the feature information available only to those who create an account or call/e-mail.
the feature information exists online to the public, but a URL could not be found to cite the existence of the feature.
the feature does not exist for the product.

A vendor's product may receive more confirmed features with the addition of more public information to the vendor's site and/or by providing a URL to a page or document that can act as a citation for the existence of the feature. Prospective buyers are highly recommended to contact the vendor directly to verify features as this list isn't authoritative, and product upgrades and changes happen rapidly in some cases.

Product: SimpLabo

Sample, inventory, and data management
Sample login and management?
Sample tracking?
Sample and/or result batching?
Task and event scheduling?	Y^[3]
Option for manual result entry?
Multiple data viewing methods?	Y^[3]
Data and trend analysis?	Y^[3]
Data and equipment sharing?
Customizable fields and/or interface?
Query capability?	Y^[3]
Import data?
Internal file or data linking?
External file or data linking?
ELN support or integration?
Export data to MS Excel?
Raw data management?
Data warehouse?
Deadline control?
Production control?
Project and/or task management?
Inventory management?
Document creation and/or management?	Y^[3]
Case management?
Workflow management?
Specification management?
Customer and supplier management?
Billing management?	Y^[3]
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?
QA / QC functions?
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?	Y^[3]
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?
Data normalization?
Data validation?
Data encryption?
Version control?
Automatic data backup?
Environmental monitoring?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?	Y^[3]
Report printing?
Label support?
Barcode support?
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Fax integration?
Email integration?
Base functionality
Administrator management?
Modular?
Instrument interfacing and management?
Mobile device integration?
Alarms and/or alerts?
Work-related time tracking?
Voice recognition system?
External monitoring?
Messaging?
Multilingual?
Network-capable?
Web client or portal?	Y^[3]
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?	Y^[3]
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
environmental, food and beverage, general

Pricing

Per the companyY^[3], initial setup costs is 1,200,000 Japanese yen (JPY) and includes training.

Monthly plans vary depending on number of users and type of plan.

Number of users	Light Plan	Standard Plan	Professional Plan
1 to 5	7,500 JPY	15,000 JPY	-----
6 to 10	14,000 JPY	28,000 JPY	-----
11 to 15	18,000 JPY	36,000 JPY	-----
16 to 20	20,000 JPY	40,000 JPY	500,000 JPY
Services included	2 sheets of available template forms; 1GB of disk space	5 sheets of available template forms; 2GB of disk space	unlimited template forms and disk space

Additional options can be added. Support for an additional document formats is 50,000 JPY per sheet and extra space 500 JPY per month per 1GB for the Light and Standard plans. Data migration, data integration, and additional customization is offered for the Standard plan and comes included in the Professional plan.