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News Release from: Metrohm UK | Subject: Tiamo
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 March 2005
Titration and more for the QC lab
Control and database software offered by Metrohm's Tiamo allows numerous new functions for automated titration systems.
Control and database software offered by Metrohm's Tiamo allows numerous new functions for automated titration systems All incoming samples are logged into the LIMS and classified for the future processing
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 7 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The innovative control and database software tiamo offers numerous new functions for automated titration systems.
The LIMS draws up a working list for the samples to be processed that contains among other things, the sample identification and the analytical method to be used.
Tiamo automatically takes over this working list a displays the samples to be processed in the sample table.
In this way the manual input of the data into the sample table, which is both time-consuming and error prone, can be dispensed with.
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The user is immediately informed about which and how many samples sure to be analysed at the particular titration workplace.
Pipetting is the most frequent sample preparation step for liquid samples.
With the new graphical method editor, this liquid-handling operation can be programmed step by step in tiamo.
This gives the possibility of adapting the pipetting procedure to suit the particular sample matrix.
Sample volumes in the ul to ml range can be metered reliable and extremely precisely.
In this way valuable time can be saved and can also improve the quality of analytical results.
Thermostatable water baths are used for keeping samples at a constant temperature, for example to dissolve a sample component.
If the water bath has an RS 232 interface then it can be remotely controlled by tiamo.
The temperature is defined in the tiamo method and transmitted to the heating or cooling bath via the serial interface.
Tiamo can also control dispensing tools used for sample preparation.
This means that it is possible to reduce to reduce the particle size of the sample and homogenises it within a preset time and at a controlled speed.
In order to increase sample throughput at your automated titration system it is important that the processing time per sample is reduced.
One way of doing this is to allow different method steps to take place at the same time.
The cleverly devised control system of tiamo is now able to reliably control several procedures taking place in parallel.
For example, the next sample can be prepared while the current sample is being titrated.
The simultaneous determination of several parameters is also possible with tiamo.
This brings enormous savings in time and costs.
Tiamo monitors the analytical results.
If predetermined limits are infringed its control functions allow predefined actions to be triggered.
Everything is possible from the same display of a message on the screen up to the automatic dispatch of an E-mail.
You can also define whether the system is to continue to work or whether it is to be stopped until the arrival of the user to avoid the loss of valuable samples.
Intelligent programming allows tiamo to take decisions.
We will use an example to illustrate this.
If the analysis results obtained lies within the limits then it will be stored in the sample database and automatically exported to the LIMS.
However, if the result is outside the limits it will be stored in a second database and the user informed by E-mail.
In this case no export to the LIMS takes place.
The user is immediately informed when a given sample is outside the defined limits and can take appropriate action.
In addition, tiamo automatically analyses a control sample to check the proper functioning of the system.
The demands placed on a analytical report differs greatly but are always high.
Tiamo has a powerful report generator that is unequalled in the marketplace.
Users can generate your own report templates completely freely by graphical means.
You can arrange database information, texts, graphics, titration and calibration curves as you require and group them together to form specific templates.
By using these reports templates the analytical results can be printed out or generated as a PDF file.
Even the automatic transmission of analytical reports by Email is available.
Flexible data export If the sample table has been drawn up directly by the LIMS and then used by tiamo then it is now the turn of tiamo to send the analytical results back to the LIMS.
Export flexibility is again decisive here.
The wide range of export formats and the integration of the export function in the method sequence allows any type of export that is required.
From generating a simple Excel table up to export in the modern XML format, everything is possible.
Integration into the company network The rapid exchange of and direct access to analytical results are of crucial importance today.
As a real client/server program tiamo utilises the most modern network technology so that you can access your data anywhere and at any time.
Analytical results, methods and system settings are stored centrally and are available to each Tiamo client. Request a free brochure from Metrohm UK ...
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