Enabling Life Sciences Innovation & Results

Real-Time Monitoring and Control of Manufacturing & Lab Environment

Software Toolbox’s solutions enable seamless connectivity and real-time data aggregation from sensors, lab instruments, production equipment, inspection systems, packaging & labeling equipment, DCS and PLC systems. This enables system visibility, helping customers optimize performance, manage resources, and reduce downtime in critical production and testing environments. Our solutions streamline data collection from the plant floor to the cloud, eliminating data silos by unifying data from on-premises systems, edge devices, and cloud platforms for better decision-making and compliance.

Data Historization & Long-Term Data Storage

Storing, retrieving, and analyzing massive amounts of process and historical data is critical for regulatory compliance, quality control, and operational insights. Software Toolbox’s solutions help facilitate data collection and secure, advanced historian integration, ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performance storage of real-time and historical data. By bridging field devices, controllers, HMI/SCADA systems, MES platforms, cloud services, and enterprise databases, our solutions empower manufacturers with long-term trend analysis, predictive modeling, and compliance reporting, all while maintaining data integrity and accessibility for audits and regulatory reviews.

Regulatory Compliance & Validation

Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences companies must meet strict 21 CFR Part 11, FDA, and GMP requirements for data integrity, electronic records, and process validation. Software Toolbox’s solutions help ensure compliance by delivering secure, auditable data collection, enabling full traceability and automated reporting to streamline regulatory audits and validation processes. Our technology helps organizations maintain data integrity, minimize risk, and streamline compliance efforts—ensuring every batch, process, and system meets industry standards.

Predictive Maintenance & Operational Continuity

By integrating real-time data from equipment, production lines, and facility systems, Software Toolbox’s solutions provide the data required to identify potential failures early and enable proactive maintenance. This minimizes downtime, ensures the continuous operation of critical systems like manufacturing equipment, refrigeration units, and cold storage, and ultimately supports uninterrupted production cycles—crucial for pharmaceutical manufacturing processes where operational continuity is key to meeting demand and regulatory standards.

Supply Chain & Inventory Management Optimization

Software Toolbox’s solutions optimize supply chain operations and inventory management by providing real-time visibility and data integration across the entire pharmaceutical supply chain. From raw materials to finished products, our solutions enable product tracking, monitoring and control of inventory levels, packaging processes, and distribution. By aggregating data from warehouse management systems, tracking sensors, and production lines, we help pharmaceutical companies improve operational efficiency, reduce waste, and ensure traceability throughout the process.

Batching & Production Process Control

Software Toolbox’s solutions enable the optimization of batching and production process control through real-time data collection and storage, helping to improve the batching process and ensure consistent product quality and compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). By integrating data from sensors and controllers used in recipe management and manufacturing execution systems (MES), we enable accurate batch tracking, minimize human error, and improve production efficiency. This empowers pharmaceutical companies to maintain seamless production workflows, reduce downtime, and help in batch consistency and traceability.

Challenges

Integrating diverse systems like lab equipment, inspection systems, labeling & packaging, facilities monitoring and control, and manufacturing control systems is difficult due to differing protocols and siloed data. This causes inefficiencies, downtime, and limited decision-making, impacting performance and costs. 

Solution 

Software Toolbox solutions enable seamless data collection from various devices, connecting systems with TOP Server and OmniServer. These tools improve interoperability, streamline workflows, reduce downtime, and ensure compliance across diverse platforms.

Challenges

Pharmaceutical operations require real-time data for compliance and quality. Without centralized visualization and reporting, stakeholders struggle to interpret trends, track performance, and make timely corrective decisions.

Solution

Software Toolbox provides solutions like Dream Report and Flow to visualize and interpret data. This helps improve monitoring, decision-making, compliance, and product quality by simplifying data analysis. 

Challenges 

Unifying data across on-premises systems, edge devices, business systems, and cloud platforms hinders real-time insights and decision-making. Cybersecurity risks and compliance issues add complexity in life sciences and pharmaceutical operations.

Solution 

Software Toolbox’s solutions enable secure, seamless integration across OT, IT, ET, and cloud platforms. Cogent DataHub supports secure real-time data exchange in complex network architectures while OPC Router provides templated visual workflow data integration and transformations, ensuring compliance and operational efficiency in pharmaceutical and life sciences operations. 

Challenges 

Creating solutions for manufacturing, labs, and compliance processes is resource-intensive. Life sciences companies need tools that streamline deployment while ensuring efficiency, security, and compliance with regulations like GMP and 21 CFR Part 11.

Solution 

Software Toolbox provides tools that simplify and de-risk custom application development, ensuring scalability, security, and seamless integration. OPC Data Client and OPC Wizard toolkits enable standards based OPC interfaces in those applications, removing the need to be an OPC expert. Symbol Factory offers pre-built visual elements for process visualization.