QCX Instrument Drivers: making data acquisition from manual laboratories easier
QCX systems have long demonstrated the ability to acquire and manage sample data from fully automated and remote-controlled manual analyzers. However, a large number of automated analysers with less advanced remote-control capabilities are running in manual laboratories. Although able to transmit analysis results automatically, these typically rely on local operators to select the appropriate analysis program and start the analysis process.
Version 9.1 of the QCX software suite introduces QCX Instrument Drivers, improving the interface between our QCX software and these instruments. This new functionality ensures that analysis results are seamlessly transferred from manually operated equipment to the highly structured QCX sample database, without human intervention or intermediate storage in spreadsheets or similar systems. QCX Instrument Drivers are easy to script and configure, offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional equipment drivers.
Depending on the quantity of metadata received, results may be appended automatically to existing sample records or placed in an intermediate queue for an operator to match to registered or new samples. The data are stored alongside all other data from the production samples and can be viewed, trended, and reported directly in the QCX system or exported to a plant data management system or overall laboratory information management system (Overall LIMS).
Using the new QCX Instrument Drivers, sample analysis results from manually operated equipment are seamlessly transferred to the QCX sample database, where they are matched to existing or new samples.
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