Symbion Systems has announced the release of version 2.1 of its Symbion-LX standardised analytical instrument software.
V2.1 preserves all of the features of the earlier versions of Symbion-LX while adding an expanded library of mathematical routines and a series of instrument control and data collection interfaces tailored to the requirements of individual instruments.
The user can click on the name of a particular instrument and the control/collect screen becomes a dedicated control panel for that instrument.
The specifications for each control/collect screen are included in a software driver for the specified instrument.
Drivers are available for many of the spectrometers widely used in process analytical technology (PAT) in such application areas as chemical and process development and on-line process analysis.
Among these are drivers for instruments manufactured by Kaiser Optical Systems, Bruker Optics, Yokogawa Electric, ABB, Hamilton Sundstrand, and Axsun Technologies.
In common with the earlier versions of Symbion-LX v2.1 provides a standardised platform for controlling a range of spectrometers and other analytical instruments.
In addition, it provides data manipulation and application development capabilities as well as the ability to communicate with numerous chemometric routines, other third-party programs, and enterprise-wide data systems.
Symbion-LX, v2.1, is fully Windows-compliant, with features such as the ability to integrate analytical data into reports written in Word or other Windows programs.
At the same time, it provides a high degree of data and user interface standardisation while supporting all of the requirements of specific instruments.
Finally, v2.1 provides the capability of storing data either as files or in a modern SQL database.
The latter provides comprehensive search capability as well as ease of handoff of data to other software entities such as multivariate programs and data historians.
