The following is a wrap-up of news of interest during
the months of November and December 1999.Delaware TQM Products Moves to New Location
and Changes Name to Guardess
Pharmaceutical Analysis Option Added to Links
for LIMS
New Turbochrom Reporting Tool Available from
PerkinElmer Instruments
HP and Formosa Plastics Sign Agreement for Petrochemical
Production Facility
International LIMS 2000 Conference Call for Papers
EG&G Third Quarter Net Income Increases 35%
EG&G Continues Transformation to Perkin-Elmer
PerkinElmer Launches E-Commerce Capability Through
SciQuest.com Strategic Alliance
LabSystems Announces Business Alliance with HFL
Delaware TQM Products Moves to New Location
and Changes Name to Guardess
Delaware TQM Products, a software developer of LIMS and other quality management
software applications, has relocated from Wilmington, DE to a new office
in Reston, VA. Along with the move, they have introduced a new name and
logo. On September 1, 1999, Arthur Andersen Business Consulting acquired
all IT professional services actvities of the Delaware Computing Group in
Belgium, the Netherlands, and the USA. As a software product development
organization, Delaware TQM Products was not part of the acquisition. The
new company name is Guardess USA Inc. For addtiional details, visit Guardess
at http://www.guardess.com
Pharmaceutical Analysis Option Added to Links
for LIMS
Links for LIMS, a PC-based software for interfacing analytical instruments
to LIMS, now has a pharmaceutical analysis option. The option is targeted
at laboratories that use balances for content and mass uniformity measurements,
and includes specific functionality for these methods. All calculations
and checking against limits can be performed within the software. Tablet
dissolution capabilitities, including graphing and specialized reports,
have also been added. For additional details, visit Computing Solutions
Ltd. at http://www.csols.com
New Turbochrom Reporting Tool Available from
PerkinElmer Instruments
PerkinElmer Instruments and Blaise Software Services, Inc. have signed an
agreement to incorporate Blaise's WinBSR Version 2.0, a reporting system,
into PerkinElmer's Turbochrom Workstation and Turbochrom Client/Server chromatography
data systems. TC Publisher -- the name given to this enhanced reporting
tool -- will include Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, which will
provide a broad range of custom calculations and custom report formatting,
including WYSIWYG report preview and many report design enhancements. For
additional information, contact PerkinElmer Instruments at +1 800-762-4000
or +1 203-762-4000.
HP and Formosa Plastics Sign Agreement for
Petrochemical Production Facility
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has reached an agreement with Formosa Plastics Corporation
(FPC) of Taiwan to provide measurement systems and solutions for their oil
refinery and naphtha-cracking plant in Mailiao, Yun Lin County, Taiwan.
Under the terms of the agreement, FPC will purchase 50 HP gas chromatograph
(GC) systems, two HP GC-mass selective detecrtors (GC-MSD) systems, two
HP liquid chromatograph (LC) systems and one GC-atomic emission detector
(GC-AED) system. Some of the systems will be incorporated into total solutions.
The equipment, worth more than $1.5M, will be used to support three separate
projects at the FPC facility. For additional information, visit the HP web
site at http://www.hp.com/go/chem
International LIMS 2000 Conference Call for
Papers
A Call For Papers has been issued for the International LIMS 2000 Conference
to be held May 16-18, 2000, in Atlantic City, NJ. The theme of the conference
is "Running Into the New Millennium". According to Steve O'Connor,
LIMS2000 Program Chair, "Many of us have just worked our way clear
of the Millennium roll-over issues. We now find ourselves looking forward
and wondering what's next for the LIMS industry. As a result, the conference
will highlight questions such as: Will LIMS applications become a "throw
away" piece of laboratory equipment with a life span of only 5 years
or less? How will the new technologies such as MES, ERP, Object Oriented
Systems, three tier client server approaches, electronic signature and record
issues, etc effect the industry's future? Where and how does laboratory
data and information fit into the corporations data warehousing efforts,
or does it? Papers addressing any of the issues listed above are sought
for presentation at the LIMS2000 Conference and Exposition. Abstracts should
be E-mailed to Steve O'Connor, Oconnosg@ahp.com.
Authors are advised that all presentations will be required in PowerPoint
format and that a copy of the presentation will be required for inclusion
in the conference CD-ROM. Abstracts must be received no later than April
1, 2000.
EG&G Third Quarter Net Income Increases
35%
EG&G reported earnings per share for the third quarter of $2.27, including
a gain from the sale of its government services business. Excluding the
gain and other nonrecurring items, third quarter earnings per share rose
to $.42, a 31% increase over last year. Third quarter net income was $19.7M,
representing a 35% increase from $14.6M in the comparable period in 1998.
Revenue was $388M, more than double 1998 revenue of $192M, driven by acquisitions
within the past twelve months and 12% organic revenue growth during the
quarter. The company has changed its name to PerkinElmer, Inc. effective
October 26. For additional details, visit their web site at http://www.perkinelmer.com.
EG&G Continues Transformation to Perkin-Elmer
EG&G is now operating under its new name, PerkinElmer, Inc. and trading
under the new stock symbol NYSE:PKI. The new name and stock symbol are part
of the company's transformation to a focused high technology enterprise
operating in four busineses - Life Sciences, Fluid Sciences, Optoelectronics,
and Analytical Instruments. For additional details, visit their web site
at http://www.perkinelmer.com.
PerkinElmer Launches E-Commerce Capability
Through SciQuest.com Strategic Alliance
PerkinElmer has announced a strategic alliance with SciQuest.com, an Internet
marketplace for scientific products and instruments, which will feature
PerkinElmer Instruments and Life Sciences products on the SciQuest.com web
site. With this new alliance, PerkinElmer now offers its customers an e-commerce
channel to simplify the purchasing process. PerkinElmer customers will have
access to expanded product options, all with integrated enterprise procurement
and work-flow systems, which dramatically reduce the cost of order processing
and collections. For additional details, visit their web site at http://www.perkinelmer.com.
LabSystems Announces Business Alliance with
HFL
LabSystems (Thermo LabSystems) has announced that it will be exhibiting
at the Year 2000 Pittsburgh Conference in New Orleans. Their booth will
focus on new products for the analytical chemist. They plan to introduce
their LabSystems 2000 range of automation solutions which offer improvements
in both laboratory productivity and connectivity. The LabSystems 2000 solutions
include a new SampleManager 2000 LIMS for enterprise manufacturing laboratories;
a new Nautilus 2000 LIMS for R&D laboratories; a new Atlas 2000 chromatography
data system (CDS); a new PathFinder LabSystems' Implementation Service;
and, a new 4sight Implementation Service scalable software implementation
solution. TFor more information visit booth #1477 in New Orleans from March
12-17, or contact LabSystems at 800-719-1853, or visit their web site at
http://www.labsystems.com