Case Study
Meeting Compliance and Increasing Productivity by Integrating LIMS and CDS at United Utilities
CASE STUDY Informatics and Chromatography Software Meeting Compliance and Increasing Productivity by Integrating LIMS and CDS at United Utilities and preserving United Utilities’ assets by providing an information service for its operations department and treatment works. Analysts are engaged in inorganic, organic and microbiological analyses, delivering QC support for clean and waste water using a range of techniques. Eighteen analysts work in the organics laboratory at Lingley Mere conducting analyses on the levels of organic compounds in clean water, sewage, effluent and trade discharges, sludges and soils. Their chromatography workload is supported by Thermo Scientific Atlas chromatography data system (CDS). As one of the largest multi-utility companies in the United Kingdom