Metrology professionals can help increase productivity and efficiency, improve process repeatability by minimizing opportunities for human error, increase internal/external customer satisfaction, achieve and maintain compliance while saving money through advances in computer technologies. Key points covered include:
Discussion of key metrology current drivers including the sharing of common procedures/standards and data, instant worldwide information availability and the need to address new critical regulatory issues including UID and Sarbanes Oxley.
The desire to eliminate multiple non-integrated "silo" systems to reduce IT administration costs as well as the ability for new technology to be tailored to each lab's unique business requirements without customization.
Email-based notifications and workflow resulting in instant paperless delivery of alerts and documents while keeping stakeholders continuously involved in the asset management process to ensure accurate user/location records.
RFID's emerging technology to increase accuracy and timeliness of location records while reducing labor effort and human error.
PDA's, barcode scanners and other mobile devices providing real-time information access to field techs, end-users and crisis first-responders.
XML based standards for data interchange and form generation, allowing programmatic generation of complex forms, separating the data, business logic, presentation layers in software architecture and creating potential for "open" interfaces between cal data collection systems, ATE scripting engines and business applications.