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Labbie, your Data Retriever
for the Civil Engineering Concrete Testing Laboratory!
As a Civil Engineering Materials
Laboratory, you
strength-test endless batches of concrete cubes for quality control purposes.
Does your Lab need to:
- keep track of large quantities of concrete test cubes?
- make sure that concrete cubes are tested on the right day?
- notify the client of his test results as soon as they are
obtained –by e-mail, fax, or printed copy?
- give the client a graph of his test results over time?
- make sure that chamber humidity, the scales, and the presses are tested regularly?
- manage by exception, paying attention to the few things that
may be wrong, not to everything that is going right?
- bill your client as soon as his cubes have been received, thus
improving your cash flow, and
- make sure that your staff do not forget to invoice any
tests?
If you answered yes to more than two of the above, then Labbie,
the faithful Data Retriever, is what you need for your Civil Engineering
Lab!
Labbie Can Help!
Labbie will walk you
through the
sequence of testing cubes:
- Receiving the cubes
(entering new clients and their projects as needed),
- Listing the cubes to be crushed each day,
- Entering the results of crushed cubes,
- Approving the results (by a senior
technician or other authorised person), or
- Rejecting dubious results, then
- Correcting dubious results (or marking them as
unfixable), and
- Finally, producing the results for the
client by e-mail and/or fax and/or printing for posting and/or collection,
plus printing a copy for file.
- Monthly, or when desired, the program can do pro-forma invoicing, which
can be exported to a CSV file for importing into Pastel Accounting or
another accounting package.
- There are numerous reports and charts that allow you to look at results
globally or individually.
- For quality control purposes, Labbie also allows you to monitor and
report on curing bath temperature, curing chamber humidity, verification of scales, and verification of presses.
Labbie was developed in conjunction with Roadlab of Germiston, South Africa,
and has been running very successfully there for over two years and at Civilab in Booysens,
Johannesburg for well over a year.
The proven Labbie handles concrete test
cubes (of any size). We are in the process of adding many other Civil Engineering materials tests. Please
e-mail us
your wish list!
Take a Labbie for a Run!
 Install Labbie directly from this web site and test it
for thirty cubes with no obligation. If you decide that Labbie
will save you time and money and make you a star in the eyes of your
customers, apply for a license and carry on running! See
next block directly below
for
pricing and below that for installation instructions.
Don't want to install just yet? "Stick your toe in the
water" by downloading the Help File
(only 225 KB) and looking through it.
For details of the
latest enhancements,
click here to go
to the Labbie News page.
You can test Labbie absolutely free of charge. Read the
help, open the forms, receive cubes, monitor humidity, scales and
presses, and play with it as much as you
like –until you want to enter cube crushing results: Then you need
to apply for a license: We give you 30 cubes (5 typical
batches) free when you apply for a test license, which lasts a
month. Thereafter you pay R4.00 per cube result that you
enter, purchased in advance. Please
e-mail us for more details.
Note: Labbie Setup methods are complete
except for one thing: The data file. You need to apply for one
by e-mail in order to get up and running:
To do this,
Click here.
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 Labbie has been successfully processing
concrete test cubes for well over a year at two major Gauteng laboratories. We now
have, on First Release, the additional features for the most popular soils tests including: Sieve Analysis to TMH1 Method A1, Mechanical analysis to TMH1 Method A5, Hydrometer Analysis to ASTM standard D422, Atterberg Limits to TMH1 Methods A2, A3, A4 (Liquid Limit, Plasticity Index, Linear Shrinkage),
Maximum Dry Density (MOD) and Optimum Moisture Content (OMC) to TMH1 Method A7,
California Bearing Ratio (CBR) to TMH1 Method A8, Unconfined Compressive
Strength (UCS) and field tests. Soils can be classified according to
AASHTO Group Index, Unified Classification, TRH14 Classification (1985), and
COLTO Type of Material (1998).
There is also a facility for "Generic" tests, where you describe numeric and
text results for any test, and the program then stores and prints these (it does no calculations on Generic tests).
If you would like to participate in the test programme for soils tests,
e-mail us now (soils tests are free of charge at present). Read
more about using Labbie for Civil Engineering Soils Tests. |
If your Lab does Soils Tests and you prefer to use Spreadsheets:
- Road Indicator or Foundation Indicator:
- Sieve Analysis to TMH1 - Method A1 (a) - Chart of Percent Passing Sieve Size
- Grading Modulus
- Hydrometer Analysis (ASTM - D422) - Percent Passing Sieve Size
- Atterberg Limits to TMH1 - Methods A2, A3, A4 (Liquid Limit, Plasticity Index, Linear Shrinkage)
- Mechanical analysis to TMH1 - Method A5 - Percent of Soil
Mortar
- Maximum Dry Density (MOD) and Optimum Moisture Content (OMC) - TMH1 - Method A7
- California Bearing Ratio - TMH1 - Method A8
- AASHTO Group Index
- Unified Classification
- COLTO Classification
- TRH14 Classification (1985), and
- Potential Expansiveness
...then you might also be interested in our
Data Analysis and Reporting
Spreadsheets for the Civil Engineering Soils Laboratory!.
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