CEA – Electronic traceability of radiochemical analyses

CEA

Electronic traceability of radiochemical analyses

The project consisted in developing the TEAR (Electronic Traceability of Radiochemical Analysis) tool in front of :
– Facilitate the identification of chemicals entering the LABM (Laboratoire d’Analyses de Biologie Médicale) of Cadarache and their elimination, and to allow the transfer of this data to the chemical management tool ;
– To trace the important parameters of each stage during the radiochemical analyses (identity of the operator, products and materials used, etc.) ;
– To allow the editing of this information.
As this tool is to operate by reading barcodes on PDAs, the Alter Mobile Systems (AMS) product, created by Tana Corp, served as the basis for the system.

Total project duration : 3 months
The total cost of the project 40 man.days

Details of the project :

Problematic

The process of traceability of chemicals at the Cadarache LABM was manual. A mobile traceability system based on product identification via barcode would considerably speed up this process and reduce input errors.

Mission statement

The main objective of the project is to automate the identification of chemicals and the capture of field information on mobile terminals and to transfer the information to the CEA’s GIRCHIM application.

The tool developed is broken down into three main parts:

Data entry on the Windows Mobile PDA via the AMS FormsEngine and the Socket barcode reader ;
Data exploitation and extraction (GIRCHIM, Word, Excel) via the AMS DockingBay ;
Editing of data entry forms via AMS Designer.

Organization

For the realization of the project, 2 persons have been allocated :

1 Project manager, technical and functional manager
1 Development Engineer

This contract was executed entirely with Tana Corp resources dedicated to the project.

Main characteristics of the client

The Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) is a French public scientific research organization in the fields of energy, defense, information technology, life sciences and health, with nine sites in France.

The mission of the LABM (Laboratoire d’Analyses de Biologie Médicale) at Cadarache is to carry out biological, radiotoxicological and anthroporadiometric analyses requested by doctors from the Occupational Health Service (SST) or any other organisation that has signed an agreement with the CEA.

Conduct of the project

Advice and support role provided throughout the project

A real force of accompaniment: The organization of the project gives a primordial importance to the quality of the accompaniment, to make the customer benefit from the expertise and the know-how capitalized by Tana Corp on its projects of the same type.
Consulting strength : Our solid experience on management applications in the field of distribution and fixed-price projects has enabled us to provide the customer with the best market practices in this field. Moreover, Tana Corp is a force of proposal in the highlighting of functional options likely to bring a strong functional added value.
Expertise on mobile application: A large part of the application being developed on mobile/embedded hardware, Tana Corp brought all its know-how on the adaptation of the application ergonomics on a “small” screen in order to improve productivity

Proposed methodology to validate the project steps from a client’s point of view

Proposed project reporting
Weekly monitoring and monthly steering committee.

Tools chosen for the project management
Project Management: MS Project
Incident follow-up : BugX (based on Mantis) http://www.mantisbt.org/)
Version and configuration tracking: SubVersion (http://subversion.tigris.org/)

Solution features

Business processes covered by the solution

Identification of chemicals
Identification of reagents and tracers
Traceability of analyses

What were the most difficult features to implement?

Developed entirely with Tana Corp resources on the basis of the internal product Alter Mobile System, this project did not present any particular difficulty.

Technical platform elements

Software package, software or development languages used

After analysis of all the constraints, Tana Corp proposed the realization of a custom application, based entirely on a Microsoft solution (C# Compact Framework) and on our internal product Alter Mobile Systems.

Reasons for the choice

Microsoft .Net CompactFramework with C#: In order to improve productivity, the interface had to offer improved ergonomics. The choice of this technology, as well as the embedded hardware, was made in close collaboration with the customer.

Share of pre-existing developments used on which the Supplier capitalised to complete the project

Alter Mobile Systems: M.M.F.E. (Meta Embedded Form Engine) created by Tana Corp. in order to respond generically to the problem of remote data entry on mobile terminals (PDAs, Smartphones, laptops, Tablet PCs). A.M.S. offers a complete information management chain, from the moment the user has entered the data in the field to its centralized storage.

Challenges and key success factors

Embedded: application running on a mobile terminal limited in performance and capacity,
Ergonomics: daily use of the application in a production context,
Data synchronization and export: synchronization of the mobile terminal on the operating stations and export of data to the CEA’s GIRCHIM application and to customized Office formats.

Business result

Today, the application is used in production and has made it possible to automate and facilitate the traceability process of radiochemical analyses, thus reducing potential human errors during data entry.

CEA

Electronic traceability of radiochemical analyses

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