SCC LIMS is completely modular LIMS application with simple steps to enable or disable workflow steps or other modules. It has various modules that includes Quotation, Customer Order, Invoicing, Inventory, time management and testing lab module. Laboratory workflow could also be customised to add steps or remove steps from the path of sample progressing for e.g. Sample collection and schedule management of collection department could be switched on if sample collection is part of your lab offering.

It can be used by any commercial laboratory to reduce manual interventions from its processes, it has been proven in testing of products such as,

Environment : Air, Water, Noise
Food: All raw and ready meal food items
Building Material: Cement, Soil, brick, flush door, tiles, marbles, cube, concrete, metals, etc.
Medicine: Medicines, Cannabis

SmartTesting LIMS Major features

1.  Customer/Order Management
   a. Managing Customer and its different contact addresses
   b. Quotation with parameter based pricing and PDF that can be emailed and followed up by sales representative
   c. Converting Quotation to Order in few clicks (with all details inherited from quotation) with the flexibility of letting user change
   d. Creating Project/test jobs from order with few clicks (with all the parameter required), result template will be as approved in the order
   e. Invoicing reports that have been sent
2.  Sample logging and Work flow Management
   a. Flexible Workflow design, can add or deactivate predefined set of steps in the workflow, access to each step is controlled and authenticated
   b. manage Sample Collection Schedule and generate schedule charter for the day
   c. Project can be created for execution of testing assignments
   d. Each sample is a registered separately and as a separate task in pending jobs tray
   e. Clone a sample to create multiple with the same parameters for the same customer .
   f. Samples Labels equal to number of laboratory + configurable constant could be generated
   g. Automatic assignment to Laboratories relating to test parameters
   h. Lab In-charge can assign its staff as analyst on a single or a set of samples
   i. Job card could be generated by the application in ODT format
   j. ROA (Result of Analysis) could be published in PDF or ODT format. Standard testing procedures could be attached with the ROA template to provide labs with document to log.
3.  Test result logging and work flow management
   a. After the testing is complete, results could be logged on the database (calculations can be embedded in data capturing formats)
   b. Results entered are audit trailed, old data are archived and new details saved
   c. Reports could be customized to look same as existing lab reports
   d. Automatic versioning of Final Report generated by the system
   e. Flexible test results details could be printed on a report
   f. All samples reports could be invoiced distinctly with references of report numbers in each invoice line, thus speeding up reconciliation with customer accounting staff and lab accounting function
4. Stock management and Lab Management
   a. Manage sample stock within the workflow
   b. Manage regent stock and get automatic alert when stock is lower then min. level
   c. Manage Calibration Instrument, expiry notification, re-calibration on usage or time period
   d. Can upload pdfs and supporting documents, PDF thus uploaded can be added into appendix of the test report
   e. Manage environment log through the LIMS, exception report at the end of day and automatic incident creation by LIMS
   f. Can manage meter/instrument movement log and generate the meter movement log from LIMS database
5. User Access Management and workflow designing
   a. User and role based access to modules and screens
   b. All internal communications are Emails based, thus speeding up internal processes and removing bottleneck
   c. Automatic project progress percentage update depending on milestone definitions thus management is always close to on ground status of all test assignments

SmartTesting LIMS Optional features

SmartTesting Features enabling an organisation to be GMP Compliant

i. QMS: All standard operating procedures and templates could be uploaded on to the LIMS for quick reference

1. Changes in different version of documents are logged and also linked with training modules
2. Question bank relating to the document is updated with each change of the document
3. Automatic reminder of scheduled changes to the document
4. Linking departments/functions with the documents to enable automatic selection of staff required retraining
5. Training Scheduling, marking user with the training score

• Corrective and Preventive Action: An integrated modules with core LIMS, any out of specification result is logged as an incident to initiate the CAPA process with its own steps
  1. Analysing and marking cost of incident
  2. Identifying causes of the incident
  3. Analysing impact of the incident (Financial, operational or reputational)
  4. Analysing and identifying root cause using graphical fish-bone analysis
  5. logging potential solutions, cost benefit analysis and initiation of corrective and identified preventive action plan
  6. followup on preventive action plan

SmartTesting Features Supporting Compliance with 21 CFR Part 11

• Sample Life Events tracking, track major events in the sample Life cycle, major amendment in the sample details, passing different gateways in the work flow, such as result approval, authorisation, Report publishing, revision of report etc.
• Audit trails of result data automatically capture details of User ID, Date and Time and reason wherever applicable for change, original value and new value.
• Versioning of replaced test results and reports in case of revision of test report, QA test of sample within the sample life period
• Tracking outsourcing of samples and projecting MIS reports highlighting outsourcing and reason of outsourcing.
• All users are uniquely represented by their user login and password, their signatures are linked with the user login details.

SmartTesting : Key Benefits

SmartTesting is a LIMS for testing lab industry, it is intelligently integrated with Customer relationship management software.  All the changes to the test data are logged to support the audit exercise.  Following are the key benefits could be realized by companies using SmartTesting LIMS Module.

1. Reduction in operator cost as observations can be entered directly by engineers thus resulting in improvement of  productivity
2. Reduction in silly clerical mistakes passing through to customers
3. Reducing paper usage (records in paper format from test results to test reports)
4. Reducing lag time (can deliver test reports faster with better quality as process hangover reduced significantly )
5. Reducing communication overhead cost
6. Integrated single view of all projects and jobs associated with customer order
7. Reduction in traveling cost as engineer get feedback on test results at the same time after submission for approval
8. Manage Lab resources (Staff/regents/instrument) efficiently
9. Increasing customer satisfaction
10. Single view of all labs to the management, thus enabling management to draft strategies  and work distribution accordingly
11. Optimisation of workload across different labs, equitable distribution to all engineers, reducing idling time

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