Chemical Data Management System

A Chemical Data Management System (CDMS) and other material tracking systems allow 3M to track the procurement and use of chemicals and other materials that may contain chemicals throughout the product lifecycle. The CDMS is also used to generate Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs), which help assure product safety. 

Apart from tighter inhibitor control, less chemical consumption, and the integration of the technology into computerized SPC and other data management systems, TRASAR can also indirectly reduce water consumption. 

LIMS have become more sophisticated and recently have been combined with two newly developed systems, the chemical information management system (CIMS), which searches for, manipulates, and stores chemical structures, reactions, and associated data, and the analytical information management system (AIMS), which acts as a central repository for instrumental data (e.g., chromatograms). 

A chemical information system, in a chemical or pharmaceutical company requires access to 2 different types of data the chemical structures handled by a chemical data base system and the information related to chemical structures including biological activity and toxicology handled by a data base management system (DBMS). 

Chemical data base systems, and especially the DARC Structure Management System (DARC-SMS), have from the beginning offered sophisticated capabilities for chemical structure registration and structure, or substructure, or generic substructure search. 

One major oil and chemical company has collected data on the cost of accidents, the equipment involved and the cause of the failure for more than 50 years. These data are analyzed annually to help decide where to focus efforts to reduce losses and/or to modify design standards to prevent recurrence. This analysis also identifies failures of the PSM and ESH management system. These can be compared with the cost of delivering the systems and adjustments made to expenditures to improve the cost/benefit balance. Any such changes must be carefully considered as normal statistical variation may cause you to take unjustified action. 

Information management by EPA, as mandated under TSCA has centered on the development of CSIN (Chemical Substances Information Network). In response to Section 10(b) this information management system has evolved to retrieve toxicological and other scientific data which could be useful to the Administrator in carrying out the act. After several years and about an equal number of millions of dollars, currently a prototype networking... 

Table 4.1, Gap Analysis Chemical Reactivity Hazard Management System, and Table 4.2, Basic Chemical Reactivity Data to Collect. 

An essential practice for managing chemical reactivity hazards is to gather chemical reactivity data on the chemicals likely to be present at your facility. This can be done based either on a current chemical inventory, or on a list of chemicals expected to be present. In either case, your management system must also include a means of detecting and checking any new or variant chemicals brought onsite for the first time. 

Management of change Material safety data sheet Management systems verification National Association of Chemical Distributors North American Industry Classification System National Fire Incident Reporting System National Fire Protection Association National Institute of Standards and Technology National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Response Center (USCG)... 

Corporate management systems in the areas of environmental protection, employee protection and consumer protection should be integrated further to avoid a shift in risks and also to save costs. All areas require reliable and systematic data about substance properties and application-related exposure. Mechanisms are also required for effective dialogue along the supply chain as well as between companies and authorities. In addition, the comparative assessment of chemical products (for example, in purchasing or in product development) can only be done intelligently if all essential risk areas are included in the evaluation. 

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