4MACS is really the Total Information System for the Personal Care Industry. All the available technology becomes available
Nothing has been neglected to provide the user with all the available technology
Ingredients are always recognized for the permitted usage depending on whether they have been approved or not, and until an ingredient is not approved cannot be used, of course.
It is always possible to recognize who has approved and when.
The procedure to approve a new ingredient is systematically controlled and special warning messages are automatically sent out by e-mail or as SMS in case of time-out.
Each ingredient can be seen as a file including all data like code, names, manufacturers, suppliers, trade names, regulatory information, costs, CAS numbers, REACh numbers, REACh Statement, Functions, Toxicological data, etc.
When an ingredient is included in a formula, then all data included in the ingredient file are bound to that formula.
That means that when you are on a formula, you can get all data included in each ingredient file.
Then you can preview/print/export/e-mail your formula including selectively any data available from the files of all ingredients.
This way you have at hand all data necessary to prepare any kind of report simply selecting the wanted combination of data.
When you get a formula on your screen, you are in the cockpit of your system and you have all the possible commands and functions under your eyes and under your clicks.
Whatever you may need to know or to do about your formula, it is there and immediately.
No exhausting waiting, no complicated operations but all you need is simply available in an intuitive way, as you may expect at best.
For instance Regulatory Information regarding each ingredient included in your formulas of many Countries can be presented in one click and exceeded maximum authorized limits are immediately brought to your attention, so you can check the total compliance of your formula just with one click.
Need to print a formula with ingredients in a particular sequence, or exploded for a certain batch quantity of bulk, or including functions, suppliers, trade names, including digital pictures of the product, or a pdf including MSDS of ingredients, etc.? Simply check mark the wished entry and 4MACS will do the rest: just look at your printer and get your printout.
Do you want to e-mail your formula in a particular format –including certain data and excluding certain other data- to a contractor, to a consultant, to a factory? Check mark the wanted data, get the preview format, select the recipients and click on Send button.
Do you want to send an SMS to a contractor, to customer, followed by an output specially formatted for cell phone format? Only be sure that your partner has a cell phone and in a matter of a couple of clicks the job is done and your partner has been informed!
All you really might need is there: Toxicological SED’s and SM’s, ILS-Labeling in as many languages you need, formula history, formula groups, RI decisions, etc.
Do you want to see the audit trail of the entire formula or of just of a particular data field? Nothing easier: just a couple of clicks and 4MACS will do the rest!
The performance of 4MACS at this regard exceeds the requirements. The history of each single item, each single data field, each operation made by each single user are tracked and presented immediately and in a clear and easy way under multi-view points.
Also the reasons for certain modifications are available and presented along with the previous and new data.
Every day 4MACS will warn you about the evaluations pending on the day .or tomorrow or on any other day that you like-.
Each result shall be compared with the proper admitted tolerance and in case something is wrong, an immediate message will be prepared to warn designated persons at the end of the day.
Composing a stability test frame has never been easier: select environments, analyses, the schedule and diversify the combination of them in absolute freedom regarding the links and different schedules for different analyses and/or different environment. Even define the sequence of them within a particular frame.
And in case too many evaluations are scheduled in the same day, 4MACS will warn you in advance, so you can take your decision in time before you miss your dinner with friends!
Please, be aware that if you miss an evaluation, when the time out is expired 4MACS shall advise you on your cell phone and/or on your e-mail box.
Feel free to load up everything: digital pictures, MSDS in pdf format, reports, certificates, even videos.
Imagine this: you are visiting a partner (a contractor, a supplier, a consultant, etc.) and you spot something that you do not want to lose. Well: take a picture and if you want go to the first available computer, logon and download your picture linking it to your formulae, or ingredient, or any other 4MACS item. All that in minutes!
Sending documents and reports could not be easier and quicker: have the preview format of your report and no matter how many pages you can send it by e-mail to all the competent recipients whilst 4MACS tracks the operation so in future you can easily revise what you sent and who were the recipients of that e-mail.
Any report can be sent by e-mail to any entry included in your address book file.
The multilingual capability of 4MACS regards two aspects of the database. The first is the capability of 4MACS to speak a certain language. It means that all descriptions on screens, all messages, all printouts, all frames are expressed in the selected language.
The second aspect regards the capability to store information in a certain language. For instance, if you want to have the name of your product in different languages, you have to enter those names for each wanted language. When you are going to have a printout in a particular language, 4MACS will search for the names –and all other entries- in that language.
The multilingual capability of 4MACS offers also interesting possibilities. Imagine this: you have your database in your Country where there is the head-quarter of your company. You have also laboratories and factories in different Countries of course speaking different languages. Well, 4MACS offers the capability to use the local language to all users whilst sharing the same database.
Currently the following languages are available: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese.
The module Quality Assurance adds quality to quality.
All items in and out can be submitted to a specification then all lots of those items will be certified consequently.
A specification is a list of analyses and for each analysis you can define the range of tolerance.
It means that a lot to be accepted must reveal all results within the relevant range.
If all results are all right, then the lot is approved.
What happens if one or many results are out of range? 4MACS can activate several procedures –that must be pre-decided-: mostly sending warning messages to pre-defined recipients to ask for extensive and in-depth examination. The final decision will be either to accept or to reject the lot.
The certificate remains associated to the lot for any further examination regarding the item, the supplier, the cross reference of involved lots of the employed ingredient, etc.
For instance, if in future there are problems with a lot of a product –imagine a complaint regarding PAO or worse- 4MACS allows you to keep all drawers and filing cabinets perfectly closed: just enter search for the item, enter the lot number and you get all certifications involved of all employed lots of all employed ingredients with the indications of trade names, suppliers, costs, who has done each single analysis and when, etc.
The performances of 4MACS permit to adapt the specifications and the consequent certifications to local conditions in different factories, warehouses and different Countries.
The product Dossier is a comprehensive and structured document that combines all the knowledge regarding each product.
The structure reflects the requirement of the European Commission also it represent an element of documentation usable for many purposes.
The reason is that it is a perfect document in terms of accomplishment, quality of exhibition and clarity.
Printouts, multimedia files, multilingual capability make a dossier an outstanding and precious document that transmit not only information and data, but also and moreover a precise technological image of the company in general and the person in particular on the market.
Users need other users and when they do, they need to communicate now, immediately. 4MACS offers an outstanding and quite efficient way for immediate communication headed to all users online, to a particular user or to a group of users.
The SmartComm functionality does not affect the regular procedure of 4MACS and does not represent any break whatever is the active screen or function that any user has in progress.
Have a problem? Have doubt? Need an explanation? Get online with us in a couple of clicks and we give immediate response. In 20 years we have always found a solution for all our customers, so, why not for you?
