 |
Industries Served - Health
Health and industrial hygiene laboratories, including
Department of Health labs, can be quite varied. Some perform some environmental
testing. Others include the testing of blood, urine, and other matrices.
Most all perform a considerable amount of microbiological testing. Aspen
LIMS addresses the varied needs of these laboratories as described below:
- Sampling Points - Aspen LIMS can operate in
a sampling point centric manner that matches how environmental samples
are collected. Sampling points can be part of higher level groupings,
like sampling sets and collection runs.
- Scheduling - The Aspen scheduler module is
available for pre-logging samples, assigning tests, and printing bar-code
labels, chain-of-custodies, and cooler container lists. There are frequency
based scheduling options for setting up daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly
sampling schedules. Calendar-based scheduling addresses any "free-form"
collection needs. And Aspen's Schedule Sets capability addresses the
comprehensive needs of large scale water sampling as well as industrial
pretreatment programs.
- QA/QC Batches - QA/QC batches are supported
along with protocols for defining how samples are tested as a group.
Standards, blanks, spikes, duplicates, controls, surrogates and other
quality control samples are all supported. Standard analysis features,
like dilution factors, correction for solids, and the reporting of data
according to site-specific significant figures is all standard in Aspen.
- Formula builder - Cross test calculations play
an important role in environmental testing. Aspen's formula builder
lets users build calculations without any programming knowledge.
- Aliquots and Composites - Aspen LIMS has full
support for making aliquots of samples where some tests are performed
on a fraction of an original sample; and, composite samples.
- Instrument Integration - Full instrument integration
is available to all types of instruments used in environmental testing.
Downloading of run-sequence files to instruments like ICP and Chromatography
Data Systems is supported.
- Field PDA's - Driven by improving technology
and increased regulation, Telecation has included in its Aspen LIMS
products the integration of hand-held devices for field information
and test data. This integration allows more efficient collection and
processing of sample information and helps maximize accuracy and analytical
quality.
- GALP & NELAC compliance - Aspen complies with
all the key requirements outlined in EPA's Good Automated Laboratory
Practices, as well as those described by the NELAC Quality Assurance
manual.
- Unlimited variety of reporting formats - government
laboratories must be able to reconcile agencies' disparate needs and
respond quickly and efficiently to those needs in each customer's unique
format.
- Electronic deliverables
- Automatic generation of Agency-specific reports
- Deliver test results to customers quickly and
efficiently via Web Interface - In addition to its Report Scheduling
capability to send snapshot reports to users automatically, the Aspen
Web Access module allows access to perform sample submission and access
sample status updates, reports and virtually all laboratory data using
either standard Internet Browser technology or via PDA's, Tablet PC's
or even SmartPhones. Aspen's web interface permits customer access in
a secure and controlled environment.
- Provide a flexible technology framework to
support the consolidation of multiple locations into a singular enterprise
for maximum traceability
- Offer a flexible means to enter and process
samples cost effectively
- Easily interface and integrate with various
laboratory instrumentation
- Offer vast amounts of business intelligence
and reporting options to aid in the communication of status and results
of testing and analysis
- Provide a scalable technology solution that
can meet and adapt to growing customer needs
- Specification Limit Checking - Whether samples
are batch oriented or from a continuous process, they can be compared
against product specifications and automatically flagged when "out of
spec".
- Instrument data capture and checking - Interface
various chemical and physical laboratory instrumentation for fast and
accurate results transfer. Automatically calculate significant figures,
units of measure, and rounding.
|
|
