Melhoria de Qualidade e Produtividade Através de um Sistema Informatizado em um Laboratório de Ensaios.

Medical electrical equipment must be tested in order to verify if they are constructed and designed according to safety prescriptions. The NBR (Norma Brasileira) IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) 60601 series is the normative standard set used by medical electrical test laboratories that follows the NBR ISO (International Standardization Organization) IEC 17025:2005 for this purpose in Brazil. The automation, measurement and control of the process is a key chalenge to improve the quality and productivity of test laboratories. This article presents an information system developed as a tool to aid test activities in a laboratory designed to test medical electrical equipment and improve the results of measurement of productivity. Some resourses to be included in this software are proposed in order to help the managers planning quality and productivity control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]