Equipment and Maintenance Monitoring

Equipment and Maintenance Monitoring is a module within the Laby laboratory management platform designed to help research and development teams track, manage, and maintain laboratory instruments. It is aimed at R&D laboratories that need to ensure equipment quality, compliance, and reliable traceability of results.

The module covers four core areas: maintaining an equipment inventory, monitoring and scheduling maintenance activities, planning and booking instrument usage, and automatically recording which instruments are used in experiments and sample analyses.

Equipment Inventory and Dashboard

• Provides a synthetic dashboard for monitoring the status of laboratory equipment.
• Lists accessible and functional equipment along with associated documents and intervention records.
• Generates QR codes for each instrument or equipment group, allowing direct access to the equipment sheet by scanning the code.
• Centralises all types of information for each piece of equipment, including user manuals, intervention reports, service provider details, and invoices.

Maintenance Management

• Supports management of both preventive and curative (corrective) interventions.
• Provides automatic scheduling of preventive maintenance based on defined periods.
• Displays planned or pending maintenance tasks and the individuals responsible for follow-up.
• Sends alerts to the relevant managers when maintenance actions are due.

Planning, Booking, and Traceability

• Allows users to book instrument usage within the laboratory and view the entire team's schedule in real time.
• Automatically monitors and records which equipment is used in the preparation and analysis of samples, linking instruments to specific experiments.
• Supports end-to-end traceability of results by connecting equipment records to experimental data.

Laby is a broader laboratory management platform that also includes modules for an electronic laboratory notebook, production tracking, inventory and supply management, scientific bibliography, timesheet tracking, and digital signature. The Equipment and Maintenance Monitoring module is available as part of this suite, and prospective users can request a demo or contact Laby directly for further information.