Oil Analysis Limits Belong to the Compartment, Not the Lab
How oil analysis alarm limits should be set, why trends must restart at an oil change, how a diagnosis should name one fault, and who gets the last word.
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Author: Brandon Holland
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The Attachment Problem: What a Signed Record Should Hold
A signed record that points at a file on a shared drive is a signed pointer. Backups prevent loss. Only capturing evidence at signing prevents silent change.
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An Instrument Out of Calibration Should Not Be Bookable
Why overdue is a warning and a booking lock is a control, what as-found and as-left tell you, and which results are suspect when calibration fails.
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Stability Study Software Should Know the Calendar on Day One
What stability study software should do with timepoints, overdue pulls, out-of-trend results and shelf life: create the whole calendar on day one.
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Environmental Monitoring: The Excursion Isn’t the Event
Environmental monitoring in the cleanroom and GMP sense: why an excursion is a period, which samples were exposed, and what belongs on each sample's record.
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Too Big for Spreadsheets, Too Small for a LIMS Project
A realistic sequence for leaving spreadsheets, Access and paper behind without pausing testing, including what happens to old data and who does the work.
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How a LIMS Is Priced, and What Per-Seat Does to a Lab
Breaks a quote into licensing, implementation, hosting and support, explains what drives the number up or down, and gives realistic ranges by lab size.
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Lab Instrument Integration: Why It Breaks in Year Two
Why lab instrument integrations that passed acceptance fail a year later: renamed fields, retired accounts, silent changes. What to agree before connecting.
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Laboratory Execution Systems: Ticked Is Not Executed
What a laboratory execution system (LES) records that a signed SOP cannot, why the method must lock while it runs, and when a notebook is no longer enough.
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Types of LIMS: There Are Types of Labs, Not Types of LIMS
Types of LIMS cut by what the lab tracks, not by vendor packaging: sample, patient, experiment, batch or machine. Which type you are, and what to ask.
