MudCats' Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) maintains the customer asset database, tracks the progress of every calibrated asset, records technician's time job by job, generates calibration certificates, invoices and shipping documents, issues a variety of automatic reports, and helps maintain adherence to even the most rigid quality program. With secured access levels, it offers enough flexibility to satisfy the needs of each person involved in the calibration process, from shipping and receiving clerks, to technicians, to senior engineers, to laboratory managers.

MudCats LIMS automatically generates several reports including: Recall Reports, Turn-around Time Reports, Margin Reports, and Calibration Hours Reports and Interval Analysis.

Calibration Recall Reports

Knowing exactly what assests are coming due for re-calibration, and when, is an invaluable tool. A simple drop-down menu allows the user to select customers, labs or departments for the Recall Report, and to select the relevant time period. Not only is the report available in printed format, but a email option is also available.

Turn Around Time and Margin Reports

MudCats LIMS tracks turn around time for each item received, sortable by lab, customer, and time-period. It reports number and percentage of calibrations completed on time, and number as well as percentage shipped on time. By maintaining this historical database, laboratories can quantitatively define how their processes are working, and adjust them accordingly. Reports can also be provided to customers and users, so that they can better schedule their own production.

Margin Reports list the number of calibrations performed in each lab or discipline, and provides calibration costs, calibration revenues, and profit margins over any given time period. Every lab manager will have a clear picture of each lab's profitability.

Calibration Hours report

This report maintains the historical tracking of hours spent by each technician on items received for any given time period. This provides a quantitative report of employee productivity and laboratory efficiency, giving management valuable information needed for assigning work and production. By performing an automated statistical analysis based on data collected in MudCats LIMS, and comparing ideal standard hours with expected standard hours and then again with actual calibration time, assessing productivity is made simple. With this analysis, work loads, production and personnel can all be optimally assigned.

Interval Analysis

Optimum Calibration Intervals and reliability – can be reasonably determined on a make/model, genre, or asset class in real-time. Ultimately, drift analysis performed on historical parametric data in order to determine optimum calibration intervals is not only a highly desirable engineering tool but also one, which provides potentially great cost savings to the organization.

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