A growing biotech company wanted to answer a practical manufacturing question: Why are some batches taking longer than others? The information needed to investigate the question already existed. Manufacturing information was in the Manufacturing Execution System (MES). Process conditions were captured by a historian. Laboratory results were in the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). Quality

A biotech company may already have the data it needs to answer an important question. The problem is that the answer may be spread across five different systems. Consider one batch. The MES knows what happened during execution. The historian captures process conditions. LIMS contains laboratory results. The eQMS holds deviations and investigations. ERP contains