Is tracking of calibration standards accommodated to include reverse traceability? Describe the calibration standards management system?
The system will allow or not allow the use of past due standards by selecting that option in the Option Setup. If an item is a laboratory standard it is marked as being High Use or Limited Use, it is classified as being a Working, Transfer, Primary Or Secondary, the limit of usage before cal and usage before decommission values are placed in the system. The system will track the usage since the last calibration, the total usage and the last cal date. It will also track if the standard is traceable to NIST with the Number, Date and Parameter. When the reverse traceability report is run the system will list every item that was calibrated by this standard in the date range that is selected.
Yes, OpenMETRIC provides multi-level forward and reverse traceability. OpenMETRICs traceability is to the CALIBRATION as opposed to being merely to the item. On the Item Master, for each item, you can specify whether or not the item is a standard. This simplifies the generation of reports and lists of standards. On Reference, you can specify whether or not you will allow ONLY items flagged as standards to be specified as standards for a calibration. During a calibration, you enter standards by hitting the Standards button. You will see a list of the standards that have already been entered, if any, for this calibration. You add a new standard to the calibration by hitting the Add/Edit button. This invokes a subwindow on which the standard is specified. The date that the standard is used is specified. This is filled out, by default, as today, but may be changed, if necessary. The Item number of the standard can be typed, scanned, or selected from pull down lists. One of the available li
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