Optima - Laboratory Resource Management System
Features

The software solution to handle all scheduling and planning activities for the lab and help identify the productivity gap, optimizing the work efficiently

PLAN THE DEMAND

 

  • Get a full picture of all requests coming through (internal, external, priority, project associated to the request, typology of request, location or lab involved in the request)
  • Make comparisons among periods of time to evaluate lower and higher peaks of requests and define internal trends
  • Easy integration with external systems –LIMS, ELN, ERP…

INCREASE LAB EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY

 

  • Assign activities to resources (technicians and instruments) based on priority of tasks and availability of resources, avoiding over allocations or under allocations
  • Reduce human resources costs allocated to scheduling and planning thanks to an automated process
  • Optimize the usage of resources
  • Schedule on a daily, weekly or monthly basis

TRACK YOUR LAB PERFORMANCE

 

  • Measure your KPIs in a timely and structured way (eg on time vs delayed deliveries; right first time; adherence of scheduled and delivered activities to original planning…)
  • Generate ad hoc reporting based on your customers’ needs and requirements (asess value-added vs non value-added activities, productive vs non-productive activities, allocation of resources to a specific project or to a typology of activity…)

MANAGE PRESENT AND FUTURE DEMAND

 

  •  Get full control of your resources allocations
  • Check allocation of resources over in the short-medium term to make sure you have capacity to accommodate additional requests
  • Prevent bottlenecks by knowing in advance resources availability

LAB EQUIPMENTS AND ANALYSTS MANAGEMENT

 

  • Set the required maintenance and / or calibration and time for each instrument
  • Automatically mark instruments as unavailable for scheduling when in maintenance or calibration
  • Receive notifications when maintenance or calibration are needed
  • Assign calibration tasks to lab members
  • Automatically update people competences to always make sure tasks and analysis are allocated to the right analysts

GET IN TOUCH

Want to know more about Optima Laboratory Scheduling System? Please Contact us, we are happy to discuss it with you.