While no single software package does everything, CMS offerings on the market offer most of these features.
- Help instrument maintenance supervisors create and store calibration procedures and associate them with one or more devices that share procedures.
- Control calibration schedules, issuing work orders and alerts when a test is due.
- Email scheduled and unscheduled actions based on deviations and approval alerts to designated personnel.
- Download test procedures and as-left data to calibrators before calibration.
- Automate procedures to walk the technician through a calibration step by step.
- Record and upload as-left results when a calibration is complete and upload or import data from the calibrator.
- Generate documentation, such as calibration certificates (i.e., ISO 17025) and audit trails for electronic validation requirements; i.e., FDA 21 CFR Part 11, Electronic Records and Signatures.
- Provide supervisory approval of uploaded data and identify when NIST-certified sensors need a recertification.
- Provide database searches of instruments, vendors, loop diagram/tag relationships and records for each tag, arranged by work or control system zones.
- Compare calibration data across multiple calibrations.
- Offer synchronization of laptops used independently of the network.
- Interface to higher-level instrument management software, automation systems plant asset maintenance (PAM) applications, site-wide computerized maintenance management systems (CMMSs) or enterprise asset management (EAM).
