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Product Overview

As people's awareness of product quality increases, inspection and testing data scrutiny is needed more than ever, which forms the key point of compliance laboratory standard management. Select and successful implement of an superb inspection and testing information management system is inevitable for laboratory management level improvement. Designed for the overall laboratory environment, the Inspection and Testing Management Platform is a computer application system which realizes the comprehensive resource management of S (staff), I (instruments), M(samples, materials), M (methods, standards, quality) and E (environment, communication) in the laboratory, and is also a whole set of system of inspection comprehensive management and product control, satisfying daily management requirements and ensuring strict management and control of inspection data analysis. It is able to thoroughly optimize lab’s inspection management, greatly enhance lab’s efficiency and productivity, and improve the quality control level.

The Inspection and Testing Business Management Platform is a powerful tool to manage complex processes, ensure regulatory compliance and promote laboratory and enterprise collaboration. The Inspection and Testing Business Management Platform is a mature LIMS based on Web technology, which is specially designed for various types of laboratories of research institutes and enterprises. The Inspection and Testing Business Management Platform implements comprehensive reporting, monitoring and network functions, and integrates independent business processes into a single, unified system, greatly enhancing data management and data sharing capabilities within laboratories and between laboratories and enterprises.

The Inspection and Testing Business Management Platform is suitable for both research and development and service-oriented business organizations, as well as for process industry, quality assurance, quality control and operational organizations. The Inspection and Testing Business Management Platform is a collaborative web-based tool which is an integral part of enterprise-level business systems. Seamlessly interoperating with other systems, it generates and disseminates quality data that is used by other software or personnel to make business decisions. Depending on the type of organizations, timely LIMS data can help an organization to improve quality management, for example: procure additional raw materials when incoming lots fail inspection; accelerate shipments after final quality inspect; implement timely product recalls; raise early warning ability of public health institutions.

Product Characteristics

 

Flexibility of inspection and testing service management platform are reflected in many aspects of the system--from automate workflow and record management to closed-loop traceability function. Inspection and testing service management platform provides several active tools and guides, greatly decreasing requirements of the secondary development. Inspection and testing service management platform simulates the manual operation process and records commercial logic in the automated system.

Inspection and testing service management platform provides still flexible electronic document management function beyond imagination. Inspection and testing service management platform can safely save texts and graphics files (legends generated by the instrument, e.g. chromatogram map or spectrum chart; original data file; standard operation process; analyst certificate; electronic training materials; investigation report and other files). Based on these full file types, the lab can ensure integrity and legitimacy of the results and intensifies credibility of the analysis process.

As a growing number of new technologies, safety systems and more reliable systems appear, inspection and testing management platform, in addition to the lab, is applied on the terminal of data user, such as: office desktop of R&D personnel, process engineer, artificial satellite lab and field workers. In the meanwhile, technology application of WEB Service promotes interconnection and intercommunication of different commercial application software, realizing resource sharing among different systems and platforms.

Application server of inspection and testing service management platform conducts parallel processing of business logic requirements by dynamically creating the thread of execution. On account of effective utilization of hardware resources, expansibility of inspection and testing service management platform is greatly strengthened. Extensible distributed server group is subject to the real-time monitoring by one load balancing server, which continuously analyzes existing server load and provides the best server processing path.

Inspection and testing service management platform includes lab management system (LIMS), scientific data management system (SDMS) and electronic notebook (ELN) components. Inspection and testing service management platform is one complete general inspection management and product quality monitoring system, meets daily management requirements and ensures strict management and control of laboratory analysis data. It can comprehensive optimize inspection management, significantly enhance work efficiency and productivity of the lab and raise the level of quality control.
Flexible workflow tool of inspection and testing service management platform provides full traceability

The core of inspection and testing service management platform is automatic electronic record saving function. Electronic signature and test result, equipment use and all operations are saved in the relational database.

The strict control function of inspection and testing service management platform also includes: strict access permission, file and data change control, audit trail rule and password security.

Electronic laboratory notebook ELN is integrated with scientific document management system (SDMS). SDMS is one constituent part of inspection and testing service management platform and manages creation, audit and review of SOP. Upon approval of review, one SOP will be used as the ELN definition template of analytical method. Approval of one SOP will also trigger the qualification requirements to authorize analyst to update method.
In addition, integrated solution of inspection and testing service management platform minimizes maintenance, training and support requirements because it's unnecessary to maintain expensive interface units among several computing platforms and application programs or all systems. Based on the standards. NET technology, Web Services and platform simplify integration with third-party system, such as the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.
Product Functions
  • Audit trailing

    Automatic audit trailing function of inspection and testing service management platform can record all the modifications on the audit log, including modification content, modifier and cause of modification. System manager can set which fields should be subject to audit trailing and files required to be tracked.

  • Safety

    Safety of inspection and testing service management platform is embodied by specific function operation and accessing to authorized content by different roles based on configuration. For example, typical functions of analyst role include result entry and group audit. Based on role design guide of inspection and testing service management platform, system manager can quickly create several roles and assign them to different users. Similarly, accessing to the content by organization and individual is restricted. For example, chromatography group can only browse data of this group, but lab director can access data from all groups. Interface management of inspection and testing service management platform can create different display interfaces for different roles to transmit appropriate information to everyone as per their responsibilities and organizational affiliation.

  • Good laboratory practice

    Inspection and testing service management platform helps the lab to establish and maintain good laboratory practice (GLP) and obey closed-loop traceability and rules and regulations which is embodied by many functions of inspection and testing service management platform, such as test method version control, analyst training certification, use record of equipment and standard products, control chart and MSDS, etc. Inspection and testing service management platform ensures high standards conforming to code requirements against audit trailing, safety, data integrity and data archiving from GAMP, ISO17025, GLP and EN, as a result, the customer can be ensured to observe electronic recording and electronic signature specifications required by 21CFR Part11.

  • QC demand

    Extraordinary flexibility and data filtration function of inspection and testing service management platform is an important guarantee of meeting above-mentioned requirements. Customers can get any kind of lab data pursuant to their authorization level: trend analysis, testing expenses, delivery time, lab resource plan, QC drawing, lab report, pay demand note and invoice, etc. Inspection and testing service management platform can customize personalized report for the special user, role, equipment, organization, lab and place. Any report can be displayed on the screen of the workstation, sent to the network printer for printing, sent via fax or E-mail or published on the LAN of the organization.

  • Report and inquiry

    Many labs are faced with requirements of providing more personalized services. Generally, the customer needs improvement by the lab from below aspects.

  • Reexamination and audit

    When all the results are entered and need to be reviewed, workflow console of inspection and testing service management platform will prompt proper personnel to reexamine the result data. At the moment of final release, special business regulation of the lab determines which kind of electronic signature is adopted. In the release process, all the information relating to reviewed sample can be browsed on the traceability interface.

  • Customer access

    Based on safe WEB Service layer, inspection and testing service management platform can authorize the customer to get any kind of lab data via the Internet regardless of analysis result, sample state or payment information.

  • Manually input data

    In the manual mode, result entry window leads the analyst to complete the analysis in light of necessary workflow. Inspection and testing service management platform automatically prompts the analyst to record necessary data in the preparation and test procedures by each person. And the window can carry out setting conveniently according to specific testing procedure and the information to be gained.

  • Automatic data acquisition (DCU)

    Automatic entry of data can be realized by data capture function (DCU). DCU is one built-in analyzer and can acquire data from the result file generated from instrument or other system. In principle, any lab or enterprise can place the result file on the network or communicate with inspection and testing service management platform based on standard API. Once audit, the result can be delivered to DCU, calculation and confirmation are triggered at the same time as well as data is finally saved into the database. DCU of inspection and testing service management platform can greatly improve work efficiency, reducing errors of data entry and ensuring the traceability under the whole application environment to make lab data sharing in the whole enterprise possible.

  • Result Entry

    Result type includes simple single number or text to one array, such as: Elisa and chromatographic data. Based on seamless integration of Microsoft OfficeTM and inspection and testing service management platform, unstructured data is supported (such as: electron microscope photos). Built-in computer enables inspection and testing service management platform to calculate the deviation, precision, accuracy, sensitivity and other parameters. At the moment of sample result failing to comply with requirements, the calibration process based on special QC requirements can automatically trigger "retest".

  • Work assignment

    As per specific business rules of the lab, work task can be assigned to analyst and analysis group. In the module of "test management", some tests can be assigned to certified analyst by setting. If necessary, samples can be organized to operate in batches and test in batches for standard samples, repeated samples and other QC samples. Equipment work assignment interface of inspection and testing service management platform can be used to send work unit and equipment control parameters to analysis equipment or intelligent system of the lab. Built-in work schedule procedure can work out the time spent by tests on the work list. Main interface of inspection and testing service management platform can dynamically display the key performance indicator (KPI), namely displaying current efficiency, percentage of the work completed and other assessment parameters.

  • Lab reception

    Bar code and handheld device can be used to generate sample label. Receiving the sample by scanning the label is one convenient method for reducing errors.

  • Login in advance

    Based on sample login in advance, the lab can make preparation in advance so that the sample will arise quickly when it arrives with improvement of lab efficiency. Login in advance also avoids errors and confusion resulting from clerical error at the time of manually filling in the table.

  • Sample Login

    In the process of sample login, the user can describe the sample based on one attribute parameter domain and test request. Sample attribute and test task may be different due to sample difference. The sample login process is realized very flexibly. All attribute domains, pull-down lists and test tasks can be subject to easy configuration and relate to sample types. Inspection and testing service management platform provides several sample login methods: such as login in batches, conventional login, login based on time, time-driven login and login based on calendar, etc. The inspection and testing service management platform can designate different workflows and test logics pursuant to the difference in login content.