Development of a lab instrument management system

• Main Authors: Zhiqiang, Gao, Liwei, Ren
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för Informationsvetenskap, Data– och Elektroteknik (IDE) 2012
• Subjects: management system
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-19089

The overall goal of this project is to make the management of a large number of instruments easy at the Halmstad University workshop. An increase in the number of items borrowed needs to be managed. A lab instruments management system is developed and applied to manage the tools and instruments. The focus of the software is on managing information on borrowed instruments. The methods used come from the field of Java web application and include the methods object oriented programming, MySQL database, three-tier architecture and model-view-controller design pattern.The development of the management system is based on four features. Two features are maintenance of basic information of borrowers and instruments. The results showed that administrators can add, modify, delete, and query information of borrowers and instruments through web pages. The third feature is to borrow instruments, return instruments and to extend borrowing time. The last feature is to show statistics.The management system of instruments provides a multi-user platform for allowing the administrators to maintain user information and instrument information and helps the borrower to borrow, return and extend borrowing time. Simple statistical functions are implemented.