Laboratory Information Management System: Where Is What?

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Pharmeceutical-Medical )



Laboratory information management systems are necessary to know what you kinds of chemicals you have in your laboratory. In the most cases the Laboratory Information Management System is handled from one person who is also responsible to order new chemicals etc.

A laboratory information management enables everybody who has to use the laboratory to know where the things he need are. The lims system also contains the conditions under which the chemicals should be stored. A laboratory information management system can also be used to register the chemicals and also to record the use and the date of expire of chemicals.

For the registration you can use a string code which you can scan. Every time you will take the chemical out of the storage box, you have to scan this code. The same when you put it back. Later you will have to add in lims system, for what you used the chemical and how many you used of the chemical.

Since larger laboratories will be used by more than only one people, a laboratory management system makes it easier to keep an overview of the chemicals.

The lims system can be also directly connected with e.g. coolers, since it is necessary that some chemicals (e.g. standards) have to be cooled all the time.

The lims system can not only be used to control the use and the conditions of the chemicals. With laboratory information systems you can also control who will have access to the laboratory. This is especially important if you have more dangerous chemicals or substances in the laboratory.

Due to these facts, a lab information system is also part of the laboratory quality management. As already mentioned above there are several options of lims systems. It depends all the time of the kind of laboratory. If it is a smaller laboratory where only a certain number of people will have access to the chemicals a different lims system is suitable than for a larger laboratory. It also depends on the quality which is required from the laboratory.


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