Symbion Systems has announced the release of Symbion-DX and Symbion-RX, version 1.2, for analytical instrument control, connectivity, and compliance
The new version preserves all of the advanced features of Version 1.1 while adding several new capabilities, including a significantly expanded library of mathematical functions.
In common with the earlier versions of Symbion-DX and RX, Version 1.2 provides a standardized application development, networking, and on-line monitoring environment for all process analytical technology requirements.
Both Symbion-DX and RX can be interfaced to a wide range of spectrometers, other analytical instruments, I/O devices, chemometric routines, and enterprise level software packages.
By providing control, sequencing, and networking, they serve to manage the measurement process - from application development to routine on-line operation.
During development they provide all of the tools needed to design virtually any analytical method.
Once a method has been developed, it can be locked down, provided with a custom operator screens, and deployed for routine on line analysis.
In the traditional world of distributed control systems (DCS), relatively simple sensors such as RTDs, flower meters, and pressure gauges yield one dimension (scalar) information which can be processed directly by the DCS.
With advent of process analytical technology, the situation has changed drastically.
An analytical instrument such as a near-infrared spectrometer may provide as many as 2000 independent spectral data points every few seconds.
This large amount of data must be collected, stored, displayed, transmitted, and processed in such a way as to provide timely and manageable information about the process variables of interest.
Symbion fills this role, bridging the gap between the manufacturing process and the DCS, data historian, or other enterprise-wide data system.
