In the digital era, the integration of technology and laboratories has driven the rapid development of innovative tools, profoundly transforming the landscape of the inspection and testing industry. The demands of modern scientific research and production have promoted the transformation of laboratory management models towards digitalization. As a powerful supporting tool for this transformation, LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) has significantly improved work efficiency, data accuracy, quality control, and resource sharing. Nevertheless, many tasks in laboratories still need to be completed in environments without computers. Therefore, it is particularly urgent to develop a mobile laboratory application to enhance the convenience and efficiency of inspection and testing work.

The SW-LIMS Mobile Laboratory Testing App is an innovation in the field of laboratory information automation. It provides support on mobile devices for scenarios where computers cannot be used for inspection and testing work, so as to enhance the convenience and traceability of testing business scenarios. This application breaks through the limitations of traditional laboratories and brings a convenient mobile experience to inspection and testing personnel. It greatly meets the needs of staff for real-time data reporting, rapid approval, and convenient query when performing testing tasks. By applying mobile technology, we can effectively eliminate the time and space constraints of traditional inspection and testing work, realize real-time response and precise management of work processes, and thus comprehensively improve the overall efficiency of inspection and testing work. The SW-LIMS Mobile Laboratory Testing App integrates process approval, task assignment, sample circulation, testing process recording, test results, photography, original record reporting, result review, report approval, message push, and business data query into one mobile laboratory testing App. It also supports integration with WeChat Mini Programs and other platforms, providing multiple access channels for internal employees. Users can log in to mobile devices via mobile phones to submit, approve, and query inspection and testing tasks anytime and anywhere, realizing the mobility of inspection and testing work. At the same time, the App will also provide rich data analysis and visualization tools to help managers grasp the dynamics of inspection and testing work in real time and improve decision-making efficiency.
For inspection and testing work carried out away from computers, the characteristics of the mobile laboratory App include:

1. Laboratory Balance Weighing Layout Collection

Layout-based collection of balance weighing data is an innovation in the field of laboratory information automation. It consists of an electronic balance, a mobile tablet, a scanner, a serial-to-Wi-Fi module, a LIMS system business database, and a LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System). The layout collection function allows intuitive adjustments to samples, such as adjusting the number of rows and columns, which is very convenient for inspectors to operate. The SW-LIMS system proposes an innovative scheme for the layout data collection of inspection and testing original records, which is of great significance for the electronization and informatization of the entire inspection and testing process in the laboratory, avoiding manual transcription errors, and improving the labor productivity of inspection and testing. Its characteristics are:

• Accurate: Reads data from the balance and captures it into the software, eliminating the manual transcription and entry link and improving accuracy;
• Efficient: Intelligently acquires data through software, reducing the time cost caused by manual entry;
• Stable: Runs continuously for 72 hours without software errors or malfunctions;
• Economical: Reduces hardware costs, as ordinary smartphones and tablets can be used;
• Secure: One-click authorized login to SW-LIMS, batch weighing, and full encryption of data communication;
• Easy to use: Data can be captured from the instrument with just one click.

The launch of the SW-LIMS layout data collection scheme provides users with more options for electronic balance data collection schemes.

2. Realization of Multi-channel Laboratory Test Entry

The SW-LIMS Mobile Laboratory Testing App has successfully migrated laboratory manual testing tasks, such as spectrophotometry, titration, gravimetry, and mobile colony counting, to mobile terminals, realizing paperless operations. With the help of the SW-LIMS Mobile Laboratory Testing App, users can take photos of test results and upload them in real time; at the same time, real-time entry of data information is realized. The system automatically performs data calculation and processing, rounding, retrieval, and comprehensive application, and automatically checks for errors. This series of automated functions has greatly simplified the inspection workflow, shortened the work cycle, reduced the workload of personnel, and improved the work efficiency of the laboratory. The time required for the entire testing business process has been reduced by half to one working day compared with the past, which has effectively promoted the improvement of laboratory management level and inspection efficiency, and has played a positive role in promoting the informatization development of the laboratory.

• Enables recording of result information by taking photos on the laboratory mobile terminal, with photos automatically named and associated with testing tasks.
• Supports the addition of quality control, including parallel samples, blanks, spiking, etc. Automatically calculates quality control data.
• Enables the selection of standard curves and associates standard solution information with testing tasks.
• Realizes convenient entry of laboratory test result information on mobile terminals, providing convenient entry methods such as point selection, default values, and a small keyboard.
• Supports automatic calculation and rounding of test results on mobile terminals.

3. Multi-scenario QR Code Application

The SW-LIMS Mobile Laboratory Testing App has realized multi-scenario QR code applications in the laboratory, improving the convenience and standardization of laboratory inspection and testing. It provides a strong guarantee for the authenticity and accuracy of test data, and also greatly enhances the user experience.

• Enables the selection of equipment by scanning QR codes on mobile terminals during testing, realizes the association of equipment information with testing tasks, and automatically fills in equipment information in original records.
• Realizes one-code traceability of equipment through mobile terminals.
• Enables querying the testing tasks of the equipment by scanning QR codes, and tracing the verification and calibration information, intermediate check information, status information, authorization information, etc., of the equipment.
• Enables the management of the collection and return of reference materials by scanning QR codes on mobile terminals.
• Realizes the whole-life cycle management of samples, including sample receiving, storage, retention, circulation, return, and disposal of retained samples by scanning QR codes. Supports sample photography and sample query by scanning QR codes. Relevant sample information can be viewed by scanning the sample label with a mobile terminal.