Starting from the importance of developing laboratory information management system, the author analyzes the advantages of information management of instrument and equipment archives, and the role of information management in inspection and detection. Then it expounds the specific steps of the construction of the information technology of the instrument and equipment archives, points out the methods and principles of managing the electronic equipment archives, and finally emphasizes that the cultivation of talents is the key to realize the informatization management of the instrument and equipment archives and to maximize the role of the equipment archives.