10 Product Specifications

Analysis Specifications

Product specifications for analytical services offered by your lab are listed as Analysis Specifications and are configured per Sample type by lab managers

Specifications in Action

Client's own Specifications

The same functionality is available to clients to maintain their own specifications. When creating new Analysis Requests, users select which Specification of valid results ranges to apply

Configuring Specifications

Navigate to Analysis Specifications in the LIMS setup and click Add

Select which Sample Type or Product the Specification applies to and give the new Specification a corresponding name

Labs might have different specifications for different export markets for the same Product

On the Valid range tab, enter the

• Min, Max allowable valid results range
• Min and Max warn for values outside the valid range, but within allowable uncertainty or tolerance limits

Results within this shoulder range will raise a less severe alert

Comments can be captured for each specification

"Live" Specifications

Sometimes the lab can only set Specifications at the time of analysis, e.g. they might depend on the results for a reference standard in the same run

Enable this feature on the Analyses tab in the Setup