Sample Master LIMS has also allowed Farmers Edge to realize automation in sample receiving and registration and the LIMS system allows us to register thousands of tests per hour with a minimal sample receiving staff. The LIMS ingests test data directly from the instruments, eliminating data handling workload and data handling errors. The LIMS system has allowed us to fully integrate our laboratory instrumentation where workloads are presented by the LIMS to the instrument software. There is a way to do this through an external 'Dashboard', but it would be nice to do it within Sample Master.Ĭomments: Sample Master LIMS has significant flexibility that has allowed Farmers Edge to fully customize the LIMS system to our specific needs. Producing control charts is easy, but through Sample Master you have to do them one test, method, and QC parameter at a time and you cannot save a preset list of control charts that you may wish to view on an ongoing basis. In terms of determining in real time which specific samples had tests that were pending I had to create a custom report. Some of the canned reports that come with the software, like the Backlog report, don't provide a lot of information. From an administration point of view this a great security feature. I like that I can easily set up employees to use the software and grant or limit their access to the software based on their position and duties in the laboratory.

I like the ease at which I can set up and configure tests, methods, parameters, QC, control limits, etc.

Having a single query form for all these functions makes the software very user friendly. The Master query form allows me and my team to use one form whether we are searching for results, preparing preparation batches, preparing QC batches, work lists, backlogs, etc. With some help (I do not know coding or Microsoft Access) I have been able to set up Sample Master and produce reports for my internal and external customers that quickly provides them the data they need to do their jobs.

Sample Master has enabled me to collect, store, and organize this data easily while providing a means of quality assurance verification that gives me the confidence as a Laboratory Manager that the data we report is of a known level of accuracy, precision, is of high quality and is defensible (if necessary). The main function of my laboratory is to produce environmental water quality data in support of my wastewater treatment facility and industrial pretreatment department. View full list of Laboratory Information Management System SoftwareĬomments: My overall experience with Sample Master has been excellent.

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