Bulk reads the customer’s test request into an order with one item per specimen, routes each specimen through its test method on the rigs and keeps the results on a datasheet on the order. The lab manager sees every job live and the invoice is raised per specimen from the same job. Order to invoice on the same record.
Bulk covers the job side of a LIMS for materials testing labs: test requests read into orders, specimens routed across rigs, results recorded once on datasheets, and the rig checks and competency records ISO 17025 assessors ask about, with the invoice raised from the job. It does not issue test certificates. It runs beside your rigs and your accounts package.
Every specimen is registered as an item on the customer’s order, with the batch ref and the drawing carried to its job. The job moves across the rigs on one record, so the lab manager sees what is waiting on which machine and the customer gets a real date rather than a guess.
The reading is entered once, on the order’s datasheet or a form on the job, and formulas work out the rest. An out-of-spec result recorded as a reject opens a quality issue on the job with a defect category, so nothing is re-typed from a clipboard.
A locked datasheet keeps the values and labels captured at lock time and prints to PDF, so a customer query is a search on the order rather than a hunt through folders. Chargeable services sit on the order per specimen, per test or per hour, and the invoice is raised from the job. Bulk does not generate ISO 17025 test certificates.
Rig checks and staff competency are kept as the work happens rather than the month before the assessment. A compulsory pre-use check blocks the rig’s station until it passes, and the training matrix shows each tester’s level and expiry by method, so the gaps show before the assessor finds them.
The customer’s test request is read into an order with one item per specimen; the batch ref and drawing ride through to the job.
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The planner places each test step on a compatible rig, sized from past runs; the rig’s pre-use check must pass before it runs.
See scheduling
The technician records the result against the specimen once, on the order’s datasheet, and formulas work out the rest.
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The locked datasheet keeps the values as recorded and prints to PDF; the invoice is raised per specimen from the same job.
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It covers the job side of one. Bulk registers specimens against the customer’s order, routes them through each method on the rigs, keeps the results on datasheets and invoices per specimen, alongside scheduling, rig checks, competency and NCRs. It does not issue ISO 17025 test certificates or manage instrument calibration, so labs that already run a LIMS for those can keep it.
Evidence is kept at source. Each job step records the method revision it ran to, the technician and the rig; pre-use checks record that the rig was checked before use; and the training matrix holds each technician’s competency and expiry. It supports your accreditation evidence. It does not issue test certificates or hold your calibration register.
Not directly today. The technician records the reading once, on the order’s datasheet or a form on the job, and formulas and the rest of the record take it from there, so the value is never re-typed downstream. Where a rig exports a file, it can be attached to the job.
For the lab, yes. Bulk holds the commercial loop an ERP usually owns — the customer order, jobs, consumable stock, invoices and credit notes — on the same record as the test. Install the apps you need one at a time; where you keep an accounts package, Bulk syncs both ways with it.
One method end to end first (test request to invoice), proven on real work in weeks, then the rest of the methods follow on the same pattern. Never a big-bang cutover.
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