Application:
- automation of workplaces for verification/calibration of measuring and testing equipment, including using own resources;
- automation of the laboratory workflow and management;
- maintenance of the electronic document flow;
- analysis of laboratory activities;
- machine vision application.
Often, in the conditions of significant workloads the laboratory work-flow is not organized properly, there is no clear operating procedure, and methods for monitoring the work performance are imperfect. For example, the head of laboratory doesn’t know how many samples were received, what load of employees is, he can’t predict the timing of performance for specific types of work either.
In addition to the operational management of laboratory, the head has to analyze and predict the following:
- financial efficiency of individual departments;
- terms of specific works performance;
- staff workload;
- payback of standards.
In most laboratories, the quality of the work depends entirely on the performers, since it is simply impossible to control the timing and quality with large amount of work.
The laboratory management and automation system UniTesS is de-signed to solve these problems. The UniTesS meets the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025-2007 standard and helps to improve the quality of work and increase throughput of the laboratory. UniTesS takes over a part of the rou-tine work of employees, allowing them to focus most of their attention on the key and most crucial aspects.
Today, the market offers a variety of software for recordkeeping of measuring equipment, accounting, electronic document flow, and task managers. In many cases, the operation of these programs and databases is as-sociated with numerous problems:
- all information is scattered and contained in different databases;
- it is necessary to fill several databases;
- all software has different user interfaces and functional capabilities;
- workstations generate protocols using different templates.
The modern manager wants to see all the statistics on the performed work, workload of employees, finance, and this is impossible without main-taining a single database in the laboratory. Employees should clearly know the tasks and timelines. The manager needs constantly monitor the load of his employees, evaluate the work results and optimize tasks.
General description of UniTesS
Structurally UniTesS consists of:
- UniTesS DB database deployed on the enterprise server;
- UniTesS Manager client software;
- UniTesS Workstation software with optional machine vision module.
UniTesS DB is a laboratory database, containing all information con-cerning performed work, employees, organizational structure, own standard instruments/measuring equipment, documents, etc., providing electronic document flow and production process.
UniTesS Manager provides access of employees to the database de-pending on the permissions and allows registering new tasks, monitoring work flow, generating database reports, and performing administration and configuration.
UniTesS Workstation intended for automated verification, measuring instruments calibration and testing of various equipment.
UniTesS Workstation MV is the machine vision option allowing reading the indications from the instrument screens which are not equipped with control interfaces.
Functionally, UniTesS unites a variety of both automated and non-automated verification and calibration workstations, as well as the work-place of the head, employees responsible for quality and measuring instru-ments, metrologist, economist, etc. Since UniTesS has a flexible access control system for each specific laboratory, it is possible to implement any functional application scheme. For example, one employee has to register the samples, another assigns the tasks and deadlines, the third to monitor and receive reporting documents, the fourth just perform the tasks, the fifth to check/sign/approve the reports.
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