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Automation - Equipped Working Place of a Construction Firm Management Engineer

The Siberian Automobile and Highway Institute presents the results of research on development of the AUTOMATION -EQUIPPED WORKING PLACE OF A CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER (AEWPCE) program package for a personal computer. The complex consists of three main blocks: BLOCK A is the scheduling on the imitation model basis ; BLOCK B is the standard and resource provision ; BLOCK C is the situation management...

A comprehensive laboratory automation system

Managing laboratory automation

This paper discusses the process of managing automated systems through their life cycles within the quality-control (QC) laboratory environment. The focus is on the process of directing and managing the evolving automation of a laboratory; system examples are given. The author shows how both task and data systems have evolved, and how they interrelate. A BIG picture, or continuum view, is prese...

Clinical Laboratory Automation: A Case Study

BACKGROUND This paper presents a case study of an automated clinical laboratory in a large urban academic teaching hospital in the North of Italy, the Spedali Civili in Brescia, where four laboratories were merged in a unique laboratory through the introduction of laboratory automation. MATERIALS AND METHODS The analysis compares the preautomation situation and the new setting from a cost per...

Laboratory automation: a challenge for the 1990s

THERE IS TREMENDOUS PRESSURE ON INDUSTRY AND LABORATORIES TO DEVELOP INCREASINGLY COMPLEX PROCUCTS: for example catalysts, chiral chemicals, drugs and ceramics; conform to regulations; cope with increasingly severe competition; and meet steadily increasing costs. It is difficult, in this situation, to remain productive and competitive. It is vital to be equipped with, and be able to use appropr...