As a long-time supplier to the Environmental and Water & Waste Water public sector we understand that lab managers are facing pressure to meet testing demands with fewer resources. They need to do more with less and identify workload issues or bottlenecks. This is where QLIMS comes in. With a large global presence, we understand the fundamental issues our customers are facing. In this blog post, we will dive into QLIMS features for Water and Environmental Testing.
First things first, what are the issues?
- Growing demand for transparency in testing means labs need to be increasingly transparent with their process, including auditable results and the removal of human error.
- Lab managers are feeling the pressure to meet testing demands with fewer resources. The need to be able to do more with less and identify workload issues or bottlenecks.
- Increased pressure to comply with new or increasingly tight industry regulations and often reliance on legacy systems.
Solutions
Sample and Test Management
- Extensive sample and subsample scheduling functionality, including site sampling ensures end-to-end traceability and management of field sampling information.
- Preparation of analytical batches and their associated sample types and methods are linked to sample, customer, site, and project data.
- Rounding rules can be configured per result to satisfy customer or regulatory demands.
- Add attachments to samples, batches, or projects and generate reports specific to the water industry to facilitate regulatory compliance
- Powerful calculation engine reduces the risk of human error and can accept both numeric and textual result entries.
- Automatic sample scheduling includes maintaining methods and limits of detection, which removes manual interaction.
Customer Management
- Capture all contacts, attachments, and manage specific reporting requirements of each customer (internal and external).
- Customer Portal with complete chain of custody allows customers to submit their own samples and have results and reports posted by the lab for their consumption.
- Project, job and sample templates capture customer and sample information to guarantee chain of custody.
QLIMS Business Intelligence Suite
QLIMS offers Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards and visualisations that are powered by Kibana, an open-source data visualisation and exploration platform. Kibana is capable of analysing and presenting data in various forms such as charts, graphs, maps, and tables. It will take your laboratory data to the next level in line with our core philosophy of empowering scientists. OnQ Software enables customers to truly take a step forwards being more data-driven by:
- Ability to connect to other systems and integrate with ERP.
- No need to include your IT department for extracting data in an understandable format, these in-built tools help you to become the owner of your knowledge.
- Pre-configured interactive visualisations highlighting key laboratory metrics such as, batch, sample and test turnaround time, customer work analysis, cost analysis, site sampling analysis, cost per sample, error rates and more.
- Build your own visualisations to tailor the information to your lab.
- Quickly display information for operational and or management reporting.QLIMS BI extends OnQ Software’s philosophy of breaking down data silos and enabling the laboratory to be its best.
To learn more about how QLIMS can revolutionise your lab contact us today.
