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Title: What are the key elements of a LIMS for construction and engineering?

Author for citation: Shawn E. Douglas

License for content: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Publication date: November 2023

Test, sample and result management

    • Sample log-in and management, with support for unique IDs
    • Sample batching
    • Barcode and RFID support
    • End-to-end sample and inventory tracking
    • Pre-defined and configurable industry-specific test and method management, including for a wide variety of physical, mechanical, and chemical analyses
    • Pre-defined and configurable industry-specific workflows
    • Configurable screens and data fields
    • Specification management
    • Test, sampling, instrument, etc. scheduling and assignment
    • Test requesting
    • Data import, export, and archiving
    • Robust query tools
    • Analytical tools, including data visualization, statistical analysis, and data mining tools
    • Document and image management
    • Project management
    • Facility and sampling site management
    • Storage management and monitoring

Quality, security, and compliance

  • Mechanisms for compliance with ...
    • Result, method, protocol, batch, and material validation, review, and release
    • Data validation
    • Trend and control charting for statistical analysis and measurement of uncertainty
    • User qualification, performance, and training management
    • Audit trails and chain of custody support
    • Configurable and granular role-based security
    • Configurable system access and use (i.e., authentication requirements, account usage rules, account locking, etc.)
    • Electronic signature support
  • Data encryption and secure communication protocols
    • Archiving and retention of data and information
    • Configurable data backups
    • Status updates and alerts
    • Incident and non-conformance notification, tracking, and management

Operations management and reporting

    • Configurable dashboards for monitoring, by product, process, facility, etc.
    • Customizable rich-text reporting, with multiple supported output formats
    • Custom and industry-specific reporting, including certificates of analysis (CoAs)
    • Email integration
    • Instrument interfacing and data management
    • Third-party software interfacing (e.g., LES, scientific data management system [SDMS], other database)
    • Data import, export, and archiving
    • Instrument calibration and maintenance tracking
    • Inventory and material management
    • Supplier/vendor/customer management
    • Customer portal

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