Initial setup

• Pieces of equipment and their availability
• Equipment operators and their availability
• Experiment materials
• Experiment step protocols
• Qualifications for each piece of equipment and equipment operator

General workflow for a new experiment

• Create a new experiment sheet or copy a previous one
• Define the desired experiment setup and schedule preferences
• Activate the experiment when the draft version is complete
• Let Azura make a schedule and schedule updates or do it manually
• Document and keep track of the experiment through Azura
• Close experiment upon completion or discontinuation
• Experiment data is protected and available for searches and reporting

Software components

Main features of experiment sheets

• General settings
• • Experiment title and description
  • List of experiment groups with group label and material properties
  • List of experiment steps based on pre-defined experiment protocols
• Preferences for the creation of an experiment schedule
• • General preferences such as priority and earliest start date
  • Comprehensive settings for each experiment step
• Execution of the experiment
• • Execute experiment steps with the start/stop function
  • Document the experiment by editing the protocol or by adding notes
  • Execution functions are available to the experiment owners and to other permitted users

Features of the automated schedule function

• Custom-built to address the specific requirements of complex experiments
• Very fast execution runtimes to enable frequent use
• General settings
• • List of experiments in a preferred order of priority
  • A comprehensive set of options such as the daily start and stop time
• Automated schedule update function
• • Delayed experiments receive an updated schedule
  • Updates can be executed at any time during the day
  • Updates can be set to run automatically on a daily basis
• Newly created or updated schedules are immediately accessible to all users
• Users can also add and edit their own bookings

• Pieces of equipment
• Operators of equipment
• Experiment materials
• Experiment protocols
• Qualifications of equipment and equipment operators
• Daily availability of equipment and equipment operators
• Equipment maintenance events and other availability changes

Access control to the Azura platform

• Modern web security standards such as multi-factor authentication
• Multi-level access control and data encryption
• Each customer receives exclusive access to a self-contained software application and database
• Azura runs on a web server platform that is located in The Netherlands (Europe)
• Our data center has ISO 27001 certification for information security and also has ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and ISO 50001 certifications

Access control measures within the Azura platform

• Several user privilege levels to restrict access to powerful functions
• Access restrictions can also be applied to experiment data
• Control restrictions are enforced on multiple levels

Data backups

• Backups are made automatically on a daily basis
• Customers can create data backups as well
• Backup files with strong file encryption can be downloaded and uploaded

• Experiment data can be exported in several different file formats
• Reports for budgetary purposes can be generated for a selected timeframe

• Timezone at more than 400 worldwide locations
• 12-hour or 24-hour time notation
• Support for multiple languages
• • English
  • Nederlands
  • Deutsch
  • Français
  • Italiano
  • Español
  • Português