“Tesla” is a specialized LIMS, which integrates the basic functionality multiple and flexible, with the features needed to manage an Electrical-Electronic Laboratory Tests.
Often, in the laboratories that carry out Tests on materials, it is difficult to see used a L.I.M.S. Software System.
In fact, the tests carried out are often particular, you need to describe the physical and dimensional characteristics of materials with extreme freedom and variability, and especially logical set of automatic calculation that use mathematical functions and / or even non-trivial statistics.
For this, often, Laboratories use office automation tools (Word, Excel, …), but this way often the same data are loaded several times, and the creation of Certificates (and even more complex Technical Relations) is made “to collage”.
For accredited laboratories according to UNI EN ISO IEC 17025 in particular, it becomes difficult to ensure complete data traceability.
To this it should be added that only a software based on DataBase allows you to manage the laboratory workflow starting from the Test Requests, the organization of Spreadsheets for Laboratory, control of results, data acquisition from Tools, the calibration references …., until the next surveys Statistics.
“Tesla“, the Specialized version of the LIMS for Certification for Electrical / Electronic Tests, offers features designed specifically for a laboratory that deals with Electrical Tests.
Tests in this type of Laboratories, often are done for the activities :
- Research (activity, by definition, free from preconceived schemes) providing for the establishment of loosely structured Test Statement.
- Verification of compliance with Regulations (Certification) and Quality Control (in this case, however, the activities are more standardized)
Each Test Request Try each request (except those on pictures, which are organized by individual Tests) provides for a “Test Sequence” to perform on an object (Product).
Trials of a sequence must be performed in a certain order (priority), or proceed in parallel.
For each Request, is carried out the drafting of a Test Statement.
In addition, it is often necessary to produce, starting from the same information contained on the report, Test Reports according to standardized layouts for different types of recognition :
- ACAE-LOVAG (Test Reports on predefined forms in an absolutely rigid and codified way)
- SEMKO (CGC mark)
- IECEE
- UNI CEI EN ISO-IEC 17025
- U.L. (areo “Test Type” on Products; are synthetic, but provide different test sequences).
The main objective of the LIMS “Tesla”, concerns the possibility of unifying the different modesof tests recording on DataBase, to obtain, from such structured information without having to rewrite or copy, different types of Statements and Reports test.
It was therefore conceived a modern and flexible data structure, benefiting from the important features of a Complete L.I.M.S., integrated with specific features designed for a laboratory that operates mainly in the electricity sector, such as :
- The Definition of device Specifications
- The Definition of Standards and Test Sequences, the Request of Test, Registration of Tests for the drafting of documents (reports and / or test reports) according to different models-layout from the same data Test.
Another important goal achieved, concerns the implementation of the automation of the acquisition results of laboratory instruments.
Also in this case the realization is based on an already existing Software Module (“LIMS I.P“), which provides a unified platform for the acquisition, any reworking of the data coming from the instrumentation and their transmission to the LIMS.
Finally, the system provides the ability to track information about the status of calibration of used laboratory instruments.