Redesigning your laboratory on a PC: New tools for simulation-based workflow analysis
✍ Scribed by Georg E. Hoffmann; Peter Slapansky; Roman Tlstak
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 416 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0895-7533
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✦ Synopsis
A set of PC tools has been developed by the authors to make computer simulation accessible for clinical laboratories planning to restructure or to automate their operations. The new tools include modules for the generation of specific workflow files (requests and arrival rates) and for the immediate visualization and assessment of experimental results. These two tools cooperate with a simulation package called Simlab, which the authors developed earlier. Simlab describes the design of any kind of laboratory in terms of work areas, staffing, instrumentation, tubes, tests, and routings and produces useful performance data for a given experimental scenario. These performance data include hourly utilization patterns for each individual staff member and piece of equipment, hourly sample queue patterns in front of each workplace, and turnaround times for stat and routine orders. Simlab in combination with the new tools is used for the authors' technology-based services in laboratory workflow analysis.