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Purpose
The Equipment module is used to store a high level inventory of equipment used in a materials laboratory. The module will also track if equipment needs to be calibrated or not, when it was calibrated and what the configurable calibration values were. The Equipment screen is broken down into the following sections.
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Equipment Type | - High level grouping of the different equipment types / groups
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Equipment | - Listing of the individual pieces of equipment belonging to a selected Type
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Calibration | - Listing of the calibrations performed on a pieced of equipment
- Only appears if the Calibrated field on the equipment = Yes
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Calibration Data Point | - Individual data points (measurements) for the calibration
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Equipment Type
Equipment Type is simply a categorization / grouping of the different types of equipment. Each piece of equipment is associated with an Equipment Type.
Equipment
After an Equipment Type is selected, you will see the pieces of equipment belonging to that type. Click Add Equipment to add a new piece of equipment to that Type.
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Name | - User friendly name for the piece of equipment
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Code | - Internal code / asset code for the equipment
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Manufacturer | - Manufacturer of the equipment
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Serial Number | - Serial number of the equipment
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Model Number | - Model number of the equipment
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Lab | - Lab the equipment belongs to
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Calibrated | - Indicates if the equipment needs to be calibrated
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Description | - Open ended description (notes) of the equipment
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Equipment Status
A piece of equipment's status can be used to track whether equipment in your equipment inventory is in service, temporarily out of service, or permanently out of service.
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Active | - In service.
- If you have your Lab test forms sourcing your equipment inventory, only equipment that is in an Active status will be available to select on a new test record.
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Inactive | Temporarily out of service. If you have your Lab test forms sourcing your equipment inventory, equipment that is in an inactive status will NOT be available to select on a new test record.
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Equipment Calibration
If a piece of equipment is calibrated, you enter the calibration events by clicking the Add Equipment Calibration button.
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Calibrated By | - Name of the person that performed the calibration
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Date Calibrated | - Date the calibration event happened
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Comments | - General comments / notes about the calibration event
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Equipment Calibrations can be copied by clicking the Copy button on the right side of the grid. This will create a new calibration record and copy over the Calibration Data Point labels so new calibration measurements can be entered. |
Calibration Data Point
Calibration data points are the individual calibration measurements taken. There can be zero to many data points for a given calibration.
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Label | - Label to describe the data point
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Value | - Measured value of the data point
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