Natco Pharma Case Study: Monitoring QC and Microbiology Lab Rooms with Mindlabs Anchor
Natco Pharma's quality control and microbiology labs test every batch before it's released. Mindlabs monitors temperature and humidity in these rooms, from HPLC and GC rooms to media preparation, incubator areas, stability chambers and sample stores, and alerts the lab team the moment a room goes out of range.
About Natco Pharma
Natco Pharma, founded in 1981, is a leading oncology player known for affordable cancer medicines. Its products are tested in QC and microbiology labs before release, and those labs depend on stable, recorded room conditions for reliable results.
What They Needed to Solve
Lab results depend on the room
Analytical instruments, reagents, media and samples all need stable temperatures for test results to be reliable.
Lots of rooms to keep track of
Instrument rooms, wet labs, chemical stores, sample stores, incubator areas and media preparation each have their own role, and every one needs a continuous record.
Auditors ask for proof
Regulators and customer auditors expect proof that QC and microbiology rooms stayed within limits on every test date.
The Lab Rooms Mindlabs Monitors
Analytical instrument rooms
- HPLC & UPLC
- GC & DSC
- Infra Red Spectroscopy
- Instrumentation rooms
- ICP-MS
- XRD
- Particle Size Analyzer
Sample, chemical and wet labs
- Sample Preparation
- Sample Storage
- Wet Labs
- Chemical Stores
Microbiology labs
- Media Preparation
- Incubators Areas
- MLT Rooms
- Autoclave Unloading
- TOC Rooms
- Store Rooms
Incubators, stability and control samples
- Incubators
- Stability Chambers
- Control Samples Room
IT
- IT Server Room
What Mindlabs Monitors
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QC instrument and analysis rooms
- What we monitor
- Temperature and humidity where analytical instruments run
- Why it matters
- Stable room conditions support consistent instrument performance and test results
- Device
- Mindlabs Anchor
- Who's alerted / what's recorded
- The lab team by SMS and email when a room crosses its temperature limit; every reading time-stamped
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Sample preparation, storage and wet labs
- What we monitor
- Temperature and humidity where samples, reagents and chemicals are prepared and kept
- Why it matters
- Samples and reagents must be held within their storage conditions until they're tested
- Device
- Mindlabs Anchor
- Who's alerted / what's recorded
- The lab team by SMS and email when a room crosses its temperature limit; every reading time-stamped
- 3
Microbiology labs
- What we monitor
- Temperature and humidity across microbiological testing areas
- Why it matters
- Microbiology testing depends on controlled conditions in media preparation, incubation and testing areas
- Device
- Mindlabs Anchor
- Who's alerted / what's recorded
- The lab team by SMS and email when a room crosses its temperature limit; every reading time-stamped
- 4
Control samples and stability
- What we monitor
- Temperature and humidity where retained samples and stability work are kept
- Why it matters
- Retained control samples must stay in defined conditions for as long as they're kept
- Device
- Mindlabs Anchor
- Who's alerted / what's recorded
- The lab team by SMS and email when a room crosses its temperature limit; every reading time-stamped
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IT Server Room
- What we monitor
- Temperature and humidity in the lab's IT server room
- Why it matters
- The systems that hold lab data need a stable environment too
- Device
- Mindlabs Anchor
- Who's alerted / what's recorded
- The lab team by SMS and email when a room crosses its temperature limit; every reading time-stamped
When a Reading Goes Out of Range
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A room's temperature crosses its limit.
- 2
Mindlabs logs the excursion with the room, reading, start time and duration.
- 3
The lab team gets an SMS and email alert at once.
- 4
The team acts, and the record shows when the room returned to range.
- 5
QA pulls a PDF or CSV report for the room and date for its own investigation.
How It Helps Day to Day
Every lab room on one dashboard
Every lab zone, room and reading in one place.
Room-level limits
Each room has its own temperature limit, including the tighter 15–25°C Control Samples Room.
Humidity on record
Humidity is logged continuously in every room alongside temperature.
Readings every few minutes
Each Anchor reports to the Mindlabs cloud over 4G, 2G or Wi-Fi.
Data integrity
Time-stamped readings, audit trails and user access control.
Audit-ready reports
PDF and CSV for any room and date range, for regulators and customer auditors.
Results
Every lab room has a continuous temperature and humidity record instead of manual logs.
The lab team is alerted the moment a room drifts, before it affects testing.
QA can show the room conditions for any test date in minutes.
Devices Used
Mindlabs Anchor
Real-time wireless temperature and humidity data logger. ±0.5°C, ±3% RH, 4G/2G/Wi-Fi, SMS and email alerts, 1-year battery, IP67.
From ₹24,999
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