Expedite Faultless Consistent Output

All aspects of lens production are integrated, measured and calibrated to ensure the most effective yield methodology.

Lab Integration

Innovations can integrate with all OMA compliant equipment, including edging, blocking, tracing, and surfacing machines, to name a few. The LMS is vendor independent, which means that equipment from multiple suppliers will integrate easily. Also, the LMS has no upper limit to how many machines are integrated into Innovations, allowing your lab’s unimpeded expansion.

Innovations provides complete integration between workstations, equipment, scanners and peripherals. More and more of the lens production process is automated through innovations equipment links, reducing the workload on users and improving productivity, Ocuco invests heavily in the development of integrated lab processes.

Job Tracking

Innovations records the movements of every job that passes through the system, allowing users to track the jobs status at every point in the production process. The module updates the order’s information as it advances through the lab, allowing critical status and flags to be added as required. This provides users with real-time job status feedback as well as a comprehensive history. When searching for a job users can filter by the job entry status, tray ID, Rx number, customer account / name, patient name, or the order ID.

Reports & Analytics

Innovations has hundreds of reports in its portfolio covering all lab processes, providing information on new jobs, production and latency, breakages, remakes and lens inventory, to name a few. An uncomplicated user interface allows point-and-click selection of the desired report and the level of detail the operator wishes to be displayed. Users can edit any report in the collection, as well as creating their own custom reports, allowing an unlimited range of metrics to be viewed and employed. Reports can be viewed on the monitor, printed or exported as CSV files to be opened and configured, filtered and worked through Excel or similar spreadsheet applications for use in charts, graphs, histograms, or further utilized with business intelligence and data mining tools.

Electronic Ordering

Web ordering provides Innovations users with an internet based application for their customers to easily place and track orders. The application is fully customizable, allowing each lab to configure logos, colours, field names, language, optional or mandatory fields, and minimum and maximum data ranges to their specifications. No set up is required on the part of retailers and the service is compatible with any web browser.

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) facilitates two-way communication between Innovations and customer owned Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Practice Management System (PMS) or other third party software. The ideal application for large retail chain and wholesaler customers; jobs flow directly into Innovations from the customer’s own system, which in turn receives order status updates, or item updates, directly from suppliers. Jobs also flow in from third party lab LMS or ERP systems, and the EDI link can automatically farm out jobs to other optical labs.

Inventory Control

Innovations tracks usage of lenses, frames and other Rx and non-Rx materials, and generates purchase orders based on projected consumption. The Inventory manager identifies stock delivery and usage patterns to ensure that the lab is adequately provisioned; reducing costs to the business with minimum orders, alternative vendors, and reducing the capital that could be tied up in overstocked, slow moving, goods. In the case of shortages, these are fulfilled by special orders outside the normal replenishment cycle.

Production Monitor

The Innovations advanced productivity tracking system monitors and measures the output and performance of all equipment, personnel and departments in the optical lab. The production monitor utilizes customizable access points to track the workflow and throughput of orders at every stage of the production process. By measuring every aspect of the processes, capacity, staff resources and time allocation required for the jobs that pass through the optical lab, Innovations can provide optimal workflows; queueing jobs and resources, to achieve the most efficient and adaptive production methodology for the lab to follow.

Freeform Production

Innovations seamlessly links to every major freeform lens design software (LDS) supplier in the world. Including Zeiss, Seiko, Hoya, Shamir and many others, Innovations is also the largest distributor of IOT. Lens data from manufacturers comes preloaded on Innovations and Innovation integrates freeform lens surfacing effortlessly alongside conventional lenses, without requiring users to re-enter measurements multiple times.

Pricing & Invoicing

Innovations automates your lab’s pricing and invoicing functions. When customers place orders with the lab, invoices are generated from associated price lists for lenses (including Rx and non-Rx orders), frames and miscellaneous items. These invoices can be edited, sent on a per order basis and grouped together into consolidated periodic invoices. Price lists can be general, set for individual customers, or groups of customers. The pricing module is flexible and can easily accommodate any price promotions the user wishes to apply. The pricing module automatically calculates sales tax and can process multiple currencies. Innovations includes an export function, which automatically transfers sales records to third party accounts software. Compatible with the majority of accounts packages including SAGE, SQL Accounts and QuickBooks.

Production Scheduler

Innovations plots the route for every order entered into the LMS through production path prediction, a set of rules which determine where the job is placed at each stage of the process. When the order is accepted the software calculates the optimal route based on the parameters of the job (which lens has been selected, the prescription, treatments), operator availability and equipment performance. This applies to both manually operated and automated production lines, both easily integrated with the Innovations LMS. Path prediction, the estimated time to job completion, is based on the requirements of the user, the capacity of the lab, and the number or jobs currently in production.

Master Lens Database

Ocuco automatically updates lens catalog information, maintaining the industry’s most comprehensive lens database, with over 2.5 million SKUs including manufacturing data. Lens details are supplied by lens vendors and incorporated into the Innovations LMS, through automatic updates every fortnight, ensuring that our customers have an up-to-date and accurate lens catalog. This saves the company time and effort that would be incurred through manual data entry and maintenance; however, the module facilitates users manually managing their lens database, independent of updates, if they wish.

Versatility

Innovations is extremely flexible, regardless of the type of the optical lab or the scale of production, the software can accommodate anything from a small finishing lab turning over tens of orders a day to the largest Freeform, Conventional and Glazing labs processing upwards of 100,000 jobs a week. From one PC to an expansive network of Servers and workstations, Innovations is not limited by the scale or complexity of its customer’s requirements. The Innovations intuitive Windows-based user interface, and capability for integrating with other systems, combined with the software’s ability to fit any lab structure has made Innovations is the most used Lab Management System in the industry.

Live Support

Innovations global ‘follow-the-sun’ helpdesk provides live support to every part of the world, through a multilingual team providing service to our customers in every major language, including English, Spanish and Mandarin. The support team is comprised of the same software engineers and optical experts who created, and continue to develop the Innovations software. Using their almost 1000 years of combined optical lab experience to provide technical support and comprehensive training to Innovations users.