Creating a Laboratory Batch Job

Forms	See also
BATCH—AddSchemes Form BATCH—AnalyteList Form BATCH—Batch Form BATCH—CriteriaInstrument Form BATCH—CriteriaSubcontract Form BATCH—DialogBatch Form BATCH—ProcedureAdd Form BATCH—ProfJobSchemeEditANA Form BATCH—QCFile Form BATCH—SelectLine Form BATCH—SeqMove Form BATCH—Summary Form	Creating a Subcontract Batch Job Creating an Instrument Run File Maintaining Batch Samples Setting Waiting Times on Analysis Maintaining Jobs Appendix—Program Settings Configuring the Batch Application

Overview

A laboratory batch job is a grouping of samples from many jobs, often from different clients, but for common analysis, and is analysed in-house.

Process

Laboratory batch job creation sessions are managed using the Batch application.

The scheme sample search provided in the Batch application is essentially a sample-scheme-centric search, that is, samples are returned based on matching schemes, sample dates, sample type, the analyte status and laboratory batch status of CUID scheme analytes, and job numbers.

Before this search, samples are set to a batching waiting or batching ready state, typically based upon their preparation for analysis state using the Setting Waiting Times on Analysis process.

When procedures are added during laboratory batching, then the sequence of analytes in each procedure scheme is retained in the job.

Locate batching samples by scheme or procedure

The instrument sample search provided in the Batch application is also essentially a sample-scheme-centric search, that is, samples are returned based on instruments and schemes, sample dates, sample type, and the analyte status and laboratory batch status of CUID scheme analytes.

Locate batching samples by instrument

Note: Ensure that analytes are registered for the job scheme. If no job scheme analytes exist, then the sample schemes will not be located for batching.

The LIMS may be configured with custom forms to assist with the location of samples for batching. Each form supplies the business rules, with flexibility to cater for a wide range of search requirements. On the close of a form, the samples located by the form are located and displayed on the main form of the Batch application, making them available for selection in laboratory batch jobs.

Access a custom form from the Batch application

Once samples are located using various criteria, some or all of the samples are selected for inclusion in a new laboratory batch job.

Select located samples for a laboratory batch job

Create a laboratory batch job

The laboratory batch job is created. It contains job schemes as per the batched schemes, CUIDs as per the batched samples, and CUID schemes as per the intersection of batched schemes and samples, however, it shares the original jobs' CUID scheme analytes. That is, for each CUID scheme analyte placed into a batch job, a new batch CUID and a new batch CUID scheme is created. The CUID scheme analyte is common to both the batch job and the original job, which is why result transfer is not required.

There are no records or links kept in the original job (apart from an audit history) to show to which batch jobs are created for its samples. The link between an original sample and a batch sample is the CUID scheme analyte's Lab Batch Job and Lab Batch Cuid, as each CUID scheme analyte in an original job could potentially be in a different laboratory batch job. The presence of a laboratory batch job and CUID in these fields indicate that the CUID scheme analyte is batched already.

Where configured, job paperwork can be generated for the laboratory batch job.

Create laboratory batch job paperwork