Guangzhou Tinci Materials Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as “Tinci Materials”) was founded in June 2000. Its main business includes two major business sectors: lithium-ion battery materials, and personal care and specialty chemicals. In 2014, Tinci Materials (stock code: 002709) was listed on the Shenzhen SME board, and in February 2021, it was listed on the main board after a merger. In 2021, Tinci Materials’ market value exceeded 100 billion yuan for the first time. The company’s integrated layout is leading the rapid increase of market share.
Tianci Materials has been deeply engaged in the lithium battery electrolyte business for more than ten years, based on strong basic chemical capabilities and process accumulation, grasping the lithium battery industry chain business opportunities, Tianci Materials lithium-ion battery electrolyte has became the world’s bestseller since 2015. In 2021, Tinci’s lithium-ion battery electrolyte products won the Chinese national manufacturing champion for single product.
With the continuous expansion of the Tinci’s business and the rapid innovation of industry technology, traditional paper-based R&D records are no longer able to fulfills the management needs for company’s R & D experimental data.
Paper experimental records have shortcomings in the following aspects:
- The original experimental records vary from person to person, and there are some problems such as illegible and poor readability, hence the completeness and standardization of the records need to be improved.
- Paper record can be lost during sharing and handover;
- The storage of paper record books takes up space and is difficult to keep, due to paper’s susceptibility to moisture、mold、fire and etc.
- Retrieval of paper-based historical experimental data can be time consuming.
- Historical data cannot form a structured internal knowledge base.
Therefore, Tinci materials strictly controlled the quality standards of international mainstream software, and required a more friendly operation interface and faster after-sales response and service quality. After a comprehensive consideration, the iLabPower ELN (Electronic Lab Notebooks) independently developed by Neotrident Technology, a strong domestic supplier of R&D information and intelligent solutions, was finally selected.
iLabPower ELN is not only able to pre-build experimental templates, to achieve standardized experimental records, scientists can reference standardized templates to quickly create experimental records, which greatly improved R&D efficiency of Tinci. Through the online approval flow, full-text searching and other functions, allowing the team leader, department manager and other superiors to quickly check the progress of the experiment, further improve the efficiency of the laboratory;
On the other hand, all records are electronically archived online, saving enterprises a lot of paper document archiving costs, and all data of electronic experimental records are stored in a structured form in the database, which can be quickly invoked, searched and analyzed in the future, further enhancing the practical value of historical data.
