One-to-One 
Scheduling Paradigm

LabScheduler matches available technologists with workstations that require their time.

The system supports a “one-to-one” scheduling paradigm in which, at any given time, a single resource can do only one activity, with the activity possibly (but not necessarily) involving a resource of the other type.

For example, during a given time period, a single technologist is either working at exactly one workstation, available to be scheduled, sick, or on vacation. A work-station is either assigned to a technologist, waiting to be assigned, down for repair, or down for maintenance. (You can define these statuses to suit your own laboratory.)

Technologist and workstation activities are stored in the schedule database as schedule events. A single schedule event specifies a resource (a technologist or a workstation, but not both), a time interval (start time and end time or duration), a status (a name that describes the type of event), and an event weight (priority).

To form a schedule, technologist events are linked to appropriate workstation events. “Appropriate” assignments are those in which both events occupy the same time period and share compatible event statuses—such as “available” for a technologist event and “vacant” for a workstation event.

For step-by-step information on "How LabScheduler Works", click here.