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Industries Served - Water / Wastewater
Environmental testing is unique in terms of the required
types of sampling, testing, and reporting. Aspen LIMS was designed to
facilitate environmental testing in several ways, 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.
- Generate Plant, State & Federal Reports - Aspen and Aspen Enterprise
LIMS have been seamlessly integrated with a number of the most popular
plant operations software packages designed to address routine plant
reporting as well as state-specific forms and electronic deliverables
and Federal reports such as DMRs, SNC and NPDES formats.
- 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.
For a more detailed look at Aspen as it relates to the
environmental, water and wastewater industry, go to the Resource
section of this website and request the Aspen Features & Functionality
for Water/Wastewater Laboratories.
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