Lab equipment?

[AKAnarchyKid]

Does lab equipment affect speed of sample testing? If yes, what equipment should I add duplicates of to speed things up?

[TokMor]

From my observations it seems like having more lab techs helps more than having more equipment. The layout I'm presently experimenting with is a 7x7 for each lab with 2 of each required equipment and then a bunch of the 1 tile desks with computers for the techs to sit at. I'm not certain if 2 of each machine is actually necessary though, it's hard to follow what all the techs are doing.

[EndlessSauron]

You can look into the Procedures.xml file and itll tell you exactly which piece of equipment is used for each test, how long they use it, how many can use it at the same time and such. You can also easily edit them to reduce length of specific labs and equipment used.

[Oberkampfkater]

Yes - the equipment governs the speed of which the testing is done ... sort of. If you have multiple lab technicians and two of them perform a similar test at the same time, only one can use a piece of equipment. If you have only one blood sample device, then only one blood sample can be processed at the time. If I have two or more technicians in a lab, I tend to have two pieces of every lab device.

Moreover, speed is determined by the qualification of the technicians themselves. A high level in both skills speeds things up considerably.

[Vertibird]

A question: Some rooms like X-Ray, Angiography have 1 tech in prefabs, can I build an x-ray room for servicing multiple patients at the same time? (Like by putting 3x of each X-ray equipment)

[Oberkampfkater]

Hmm - I have never tried it.

You have to make a distinction between 'room' (four walls with a door and content) and 'zone' (the area that has a function ... like X-ray). You can build rooms that contain multiple zones (for example: one room with a cardio unit on one side and a sonography unit on the other side) or you can create on big zone and build multiple rooms in it (example: a big normal ward zone that contains serveral patient rooms and ensuite bathrooms).

But every unit needs a dedicated work station + technician. One technician per X-ray machine.

[TokMor]

I checked the procedures.xml, I see that the lab tests have the tag "BlocksSpecialist" which is set to true or false for various tasks, but there is no tag that seems to be the same for equipment. So that likely means that only the specialist is reserved, not the equipment. Probably could use some proper testing to see if this is the case. Need a busy lab with lots of techs but only one set of equipment and see if they can process people just as fast as multiple sets of equipment and the same number of techs.

[EndlessSauron]

I turned off the blockspecialist and my labs work much faster now, i noticed that in my labs that the trash and sink where my slow downs

[Vertibird]

Originally posted by Oberkampfkater:

Hmm - I have never tried it.

You have to make a distinction between 'room' (four walls with a door and content) and 'zone' (the area that has a function ... like X-ray). You can build rooms that contain multiple zones (for example: one room with a cardio unit on one side and a sonography unit on the other side) or you can create on big zone and build multiple rooms in it (example: a big normal ward zone that contains serveral patient rooms and ensuite bathrooms).

But every unit needs a dedicated work station + technician. One technician per X-ray machine.

Thanks! I put sofa,radio and water dispenser in every office and tech lab, but most of my staff prefer to use common room to fill their free times. Any ideas?

[EndlessSauron]

yea i think that staff prefer to relax in common rooms, I designed my newest hospital without a common room and all the staff where fine for food and bathroom but all complained about relaxing. seems they only relax in common rooms.