Vendor:H&A Scientific, Inc.

**H&A Scientific, Inc.**
Type	Incorporated
Industry	Laboratory informatics
Headquarters	105 A Regency Blvd., Greenville, North Carolina, U.S.
Number of locations	2
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Products list IntelliFORM; ; Opt-Diss; ; PC/Chrom; ; SLIM; ; SLIM Report Generator; ; SLIM Stat;
Website	HAScientific.com
LinkedIn	https://www.linkedin.com/company/687008

H&A Scientific, Inc. develops and distributes laboratory informatics software solutions for pharmaceutical and medical device companies in over 20 countries around the world.^[1] H&A also offers services like calibration, validation, training, and custom software development.^[2]

History

H&A Scientific, Inc. was founded in 1992 as a hardware company, making DOS workstations for chromatography equipment. They quickly went on to develop software as well, including an analog-to-digital (A/D) interface today known as ChromWave and PC-based chromatography software called PC/Chrom. In 1997, H&A released their first version of SLIM, a laboratory information management system (LIMS) for stability programs, followed a decade later by IntelliLIMS, a more industry-neutral LIMS.^[1]

In 2007, the company introduced IntelliLIMS, a slimmed-down LIMS for sample management.^[1] However, the software disappeared from the company's web page sometime in late 2015.^[3] The LIMS is presumed to be no longer offered.

Technology and products

SLIM, PC/Chrom, SLIMStat, and SLIM Report Generator

SLIM (Stability Lab Information Manager) is a laboratory information management system (LIMS) designed "to manage your company’s drug stability program with optimal efficiency."^[4] The software allows users to design stability study protocols, analyze statistics, and create regulatory-compliant reports.^[4]

PC/Chrom is a chromatography data management system (CDMS) packaged with an Ethernet or serial port hardware interface that "interfaces your company’s HPLC, GC, or CE detector with a personal computer or corporate network server."^[5] The CDMS is "FDA-regulations and GAMP guideline validated" and complies with 21 CFR Part 11 rules with audit trails and password protection. The software's features include: chromatographic runs separated by folder; automatic peak integration; calculation of unknown sample concentrations; customized response factors; peak calibration; support for chromatographic overlays; and support for capillary electrophoresis (CE) specific calculations.^[5]

SLIMStat is a software tool designed "to determine the shelf life of drug products that have been placed on stability." It is capable of trend analysis, out-of-trend determination, and back calculation of purity, among other things.^[6]

SLIM Report Generator is a multilingual reporting component of the SLIM software suite that "allows users to produce validated, submission-ready stability summary reports." The company states the report generator has over 50 formatting options to best display data.^[7]

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.

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Product: SLIM

Sample, inventory, and data management
Sample login and management?	Y^[4]
Sample tracking?	Y^[4]
Sample and/or result batching?	Y^[4]
Task and event scheduling?	Y^[4]
Option for manual result entry?	Y^[4]
Multiple data viewing methods?	Y^[4]
Data and trend analysis?	Y^[4]
Data and equipment sharing?
Customizable fields and/or interface?
Query capability?
Import data?
Internal file or data linking?	Y^[4]
External file or data linking?
ELN support or integration?
Export data to MS Excel?	Y^[4]
Raw data management?
Data warehouse?
Deadline control?
Production control?
Project and/or task management?
Inventory management?	Y^[4]
Document creation and/or management?	Y^[4]
Case management?
Workflow management?
Specification management?
Customer and supplier management?
Billing management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?	Y^[4]
QA / QC functions?
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?	Y^[4]
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?	Y^[4]
Data normalization?
Data validation?	Y^[4]
Data encryption?
Version control?
Automatic data backup?
Environmental monitoring?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?	Y^[4]
Report printing?	Y^[4]
Label support?	Y^[4]
Barcode support?	Y^[4]
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?	Y^[4]
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Fax integration?
Email integration?	Y^[4]
Base functionality
Administrator management?	Y^[4]
Modular?
Instrument interfacing and management?
Mobile device integration?
Alarms and/or alerts?	Y^[4]
Work-related time tracking?
Voice recognition system?
External monitoring?
Messaging?
Multilingual?
Network-capable?	Y^[4]
Web client or portal?	Y^[4]
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
automotive and aerospace, chemical, cosmetic, environmental, food and beverage, manufacturing and R&D, petrochemical, pharmaceutical