Vendor:Hach Company

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Hach Company
Type Corporation
Industry Laboratory informatics
Manufacturing
Founder(s) Clifford and Kathryn Hach
Headquarters 5600 Lindbergh Dr., Loveland, Colorado, U.S.
Number of locations 2
Area served Worldwide
Products
Parent Danaher Corporation
Website Hach.com
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/hach/

Hach Company manufactures and distributes analytical instruments and reagents. Hach also develops and distributes laboratory informatics software solutions for the water and wastewater industries.

History

On April 22, 1999, Hach Company announced that it had entered into a merger agreement with Danaher Corporation to become a subsidiary of Danaher. Danaher's CEO said of the merger that "[w]ith its premier product offering in water quality analytical instrumentation, superior quality and innovation, Hach represents a very attractive strategic fit with Danaher's process/environmental controls business."[1][2] Hach and its offerings soon became part of Danaher's "Water Quality Platform," which has been around at least since 2000.[3]

In roughly 2018, Hach introduced Claros, a platform-based "Water Intelligence System" focused on better instrument management, data management, and process management for environmental and water quality laboratories. Hach's WIMS, a laboratory information management system (LIMS), was added to that platform.[4] With Danaher's later acquisitions of Aquatic Informatics, Inc. and Sedaru, Inc., their corresponding offerings have become part of the Water Quality Platform[5][6][7], or they provide support for the offerings of that platform.[8]

Technology and products

Hach WIMS

Hach WIMS is LIMS that helps companies managing water and wastewater treatment to "save money and make operational decisions with confidence."[9] WIMS can be installed locally or hosted via the software as a service (SaaS) model.

Features


Product: Hach WIMS
Sample, inventory, and data management
Sample login and management?
Sample tracking?Y[10]
Sample and/or result batching?
Task and event scheduling?Y[11]
Option for manual result entry?Y[10]
Multiple data viewing methods?
Data and trend analysis?Y[9]
Data and equipment sharing?
Customizable fields and/or interface?Y[9]
Query capability?Y[10]
Import data?Y[11]
Internal file or data linking?
External file or data linking?
ELN support or integration?
Export data to MS Excel?
Raw data management?
Data warehouse?Y[9]
Deadline control?
Production control?
Project and/or task management?
Inventory management?Y[10]
Document creation and/or management?
Case management?
Workflow management?Y[10]
Specification management?
Customer and supplier management?
Billing management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?
QA / QC functions?
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?Y[12]
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?
Data normalization?
Data validation?Y[9]
Data encryption?
Version control?
Automatic data backup?Y[10]
Environmental monitoring?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?Y[10]
Report printing?Y[10]
Label support?
Barcode support?
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Fax integration?
Email integration?Y[10]
Base functionality
Administrator management?
Modular?Y[10]
Instrument interfacing and management?
Mobile device integration?Y[10]
Alarms and/or alerts?Y[9]
Work-related time tracking?
Voice recognition system?
External monitoring?
Messaging?
Multilingual?
Network-capable?
Web client or portal?Y[12]
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?Y[10]
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
environmental, power and utility

Pricing

Demonstration videos and other media

The following videos related to Hach WIMS exist:

Additional information

References

  1. Hach Company (22 April 1999). "Hach Company Signs Definitive Merger Agreement With Danaher Corporation". Chemical Online. https://www.chemicalonline.com/doc/hach-company-signs-definitive-merger-agreemen-0001. Retrieved 05 October 2022. 
  2. n.a. (23 April 1999). "Company News: Shares of Hach Jump 65% on News of Deal with Danaher". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 26 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150726034440/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/23/business/company-news-shares-of-hach-jump-65-on-news-of-deal-with-danaher.html. Retrieved 05 October 2022. 
  3. Danaher Corporation (19 December 2000). "Danaher Corporation Announces Purchase of Zellweger Analytics Water Quality Business". Danaher Investor Relations. https://investors.danaher.com/2000-12-19-Danaher-Corporation-Announces-Purchase-of-Zellweger-Analytics-Water-Quality-Business. Retrieved 05 October 2022. 
  4. "Claros Data Management" (PDF). Hach Corporation. 2018. https://www.hach.com/cms-portals/hach_com/cms/documents/pdf/guides/Claros/Claros-data-management-datasheet.pdf. Retrieved 05 October 2022. 
  5. Scott, J. (17 July 2020). "Vancouver’s Aquatic Informatics Acquired by Danaher’s Water Quality Platform". Betakit. https://betakit.com/vancouvers-aquatic-informatics-acquired-by-danahers-water-quality-platform/. Retrieved 05 October 2022. 
  6. "Aquatic Informatics Joins Danaher’s Water Quality Platform". Hach Company. 14 July 2020. https://www.hach.com/news/aquatic-informatics-joins-danaher. Retrieved 05 October 2022. 
  7. Aquatic Informatics, Inc (17 March 2021). "Sedaru Acquired by Aquatic Informatics, Joins Danaher's Water Quality Platform". https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sedaru-acquired-by-aquatic-informatics-joins-danahers-water-quality-platform-301249661.html. Retrieved 05 October 2022. 
  8. "Claros Data Management Solutions". Hach Company. https://www.hach.com/claros/data-management-overview. Retrieved 05 October 2022. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 "Hach WIMS - Water Information Management Solution". Hach Company. https://www.hach.com/hach-wims-water-information-management-solution/product?id=7640602680. Retrieved 25 October 2020. 
  10. 10.00 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.09 10.10 10.11 "Hach Water Information Management Solution - Accurate Information…Informed Decisions" (PDF). Hach Company. https://www.hach.com/asset-get.download-en.jsa?id=7639982114. Retrieved 25 October 2020. 
  11. 11.0 11.1 "Hach WIMS LIMS Interfaces". Hach Company. https://www.hach.com/hach-wims-lims-interfaces/product?id=7640276352&callback=bc. Retrieved 25 October 2020. 
  12. 12.0 12.1 "Hach WIMS - Water Information Management Solution - Details". Hach Company. https://www.hach.com/hach-wims-water-information-management-solution/product-details?id=7640602680&callback=bc. Retrieved 25 October 2020.