CSols Links for LIMS integrates Olympus Urine Analyzers and Thermo-Fisher LIMS

Aug. 31, 2011 - PRLog -- Urine testing laboratories need high throughput instrument integration software for linking their Olympus urine analyzers to LIMS. Bar coded samples are loaded into racks and fed almost continuously onto the instrument. As the instrument scans each sample, it sends a request to Links for LIMS for which components to analyze.

Links for LIMS (L4L) interprets the request and gathers all the necessary data from (any) LIMS and passes it back to the instrument. Simultaneously, L4L collects results as they are produced and displays them to the user. AQCs are checked against limits and when the analyst has reviewed them, an approval action will send the results to LIMS. All AQC results are sent to a separate AQC system.

A surprising range of automation and integration requirements can be met with CSols’ fully configurable standard product, Links for LIMS which requires absolutely no user programming to implement. Links for LIMS is a highly configurable, easy to implement and simple to use instrument interfacing and integration product. Some similar applications require the user to utilize embedded scripting tools (languages such as Basic) to create usable solutions. It is important to consider the onerous validation issues created when allowing users to generate such custom programs.

As a ‘rule of thumb’ CSols’ experience shows that it is almost always financially worth integrating with LIMS if the instrument reports more than 100 results per day. In addition to cost benefits there is demonstrably improved analytical quality, faster turnaround and better analyst job satisfaction.

About CSols

With customers around the world in a wide variety of industry sectors and over two decades of experience, CSols is recognized as the leading supplier of laboratory integration software. CSols has a wide range of laboratory software and handheld solutions which help laboratories reduce their costs and improve both efficiencies and result quality.

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CSols is a laboratory informatics company, formed in 1990, whose dedicated passion is to maximize your return on investment by improving the effectiveness, productivity and quality of laboratories of all types. We help guide you ‘Beyond the Technology’ that you are using in your laboratory to provide you with solutions that help streamline your procedures and so help you meet all of these goals. Our current range of products include a series of software packages that can be combined with our skill and expertise to give a solution that meets your requirements.