Software provides controlling, guiding and tracking of manufacture in operations with stringent quantity and security requirements and ensures real-time control of quality.

Elan Software Systems has designed the MES computer solution for regulated industries, particularly the pharmaceutical industry. The aim of the XFP software solution is the controlling, guiding and tracking of manufacture in operations with stringent quantity and security requirements. It ensures real-time control of the quality and safety of the good application and progress of manufacturing processes.

XFP provides computerised management of all the resources and commands related to manufacture while combining robustness and reliability and saving time.

The XFP MES, a standard parameterable program, is a modular system consisting of three main components that a company can purchase together or separately.

Each major component guides and ensures the security of a major manufacturing stage: flow and logistics management, computerised weighing or the computerized execution of operating procedures, referred to as the electronic batch record.

This electronic record generates 'paperless' production.

XFP offers many distinct advantages, including: real time control of manufacture with the highest possible quality; detection and elimination of process errors, deviations and anomalies; shorter manufacturing time; faster batch release; enhanced compliance with regulations; and full traceability and history of each batch.

Used today by seven of the 10 world pharmaceutical majors, XFP operates in seven languages at more than 100 production sites in 16 countries.

Its users include Abbott, Baxter Healthcare, Cardinal Health, Gencell, Glaxosmithkline, Johnson and Johnson, Massachusetts Biologicial Laboratories, Merck, Novartis, Octapharma, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, Schering, Takeda and UCB Pharma among others.

* About Elan Software Systems - Elan Software Systems is an international company based in the USA (Princeton, New Jersey) and Europe (Toulouse, France).

Elan has also set up a network of integrator partners in Mexico, Ireland, Italy and Australia.

Annual sales were some $S6 million in 2004.

It employs 50 people, a quarter of whom are from the pharmaceutical, chemical or bio-data processing industries.

With a client portfolio (number of equipped site) consisting solely of highly regulated industries, Elan has become in 19 years a leading expert in world MES for health-related industries.

With average growth of 13% per year, Elan Software Systems is a stable, sustainable company that invests in R and D to remain a pioneer in its technological progress and recognised innovations such as its electronic batch record system.