LIMS: Saving you time

A successful manager knows how to apply the skills of his employees to the benefit of a business.

Many laboratories still rely on dated methods to keep track of test results and samples. These methods mainly involve skilled laboratory staff wasting hours documenting and filing their findings. For as long as it takes to fill out forms, laboratory employees are getting paid skilled labour wages to do a clerk's job.

Laboratory information management systems (LIMS) have been specifically designed so laboratories no longer need to rely on time-consuming methods to document all laboratory activity. Skilled staff is therefore free to apply their skills where they're needed most.

Lab-i is business solution provider QBCon's answer to LIMS. Incorporating state of the art technology with a fully customised LIMS system means Lab-i saves you time by keeping your administration to the minimum. Here's how:

Bar coding and scanning

Once a batch of samples is entered into the system, Lab-i generates a unique bar code for each sample. The bar code is simply scanned in at each point in the laboratory. A full history of the sample is immediately displayed consisting of a detailed report of all the findings and a list of tests to be performed.

Once the test is completed, the analyst can simply enter their findings into the system. The test results are immediately recorded and accessible to other users. Analysts don't have to spend hours filling out forms to document their findings, these forms don't have to be filed and information is instantly accessible to everyone from management to accounts.

Biometrics

With QBCon's state of the art biometric system each user can access Lab-i through fingerprint identification. This means users don't have to go through the tedious username and password routine every time they want to gain access to the system. With the biometric system each user can be held fully accountable for all activity on Lab-i.

Automatic input

In laboratories where laboratory equipment used to conduct tests, the data collected is automatically updated on Lab-i. Analysts no longer have to waste time recording results on spreadsheets. There is also no room for human error, making laboratory results more reliable.

Reporting

Because test results are immediately available to all users once entered into Lab-i, managers can track and provide up to the minute feedback on the progress of a batch of samples in the laboratory.

Once a batch of samples has been processed, the results can simply be printed from Lab-i and sent to the client, in the format preferred by the laboratory.

Invoicing

With Lab-i's invoicing system, test costs are pre-programmed into the system. Once a test has been performed, the costs involved are immediately displayed, saving the accounts department from hours of tedious calculations.

By customising and integrating state of the art LIMS technology laboratories can focus on testing and analysing samples and leave tedious administration work to Lab-i.