Agilent Technologies has introduced Agilent Openlab CDS, the next-generation chromatography data system (CDS) of Agilent's Chemstation and EZChrom Elite CDS platforms.
Openlab CDS is designed on the modern and fully scalable Openlab Shared Services architecture and provides feature improvements to current Chemstation and EZChrom Elite platforms.
Openlab CDS is completely backward compatible with Chemstation and EZChrom Elite workflows, while adding a number of features such as central administration, remote viewing and optimised reporting.
Agilent Openlab CDS supports liquid and gas chromatographs from multiple vendors, plus Agilent's LC-MS single quad and capillary electrophoresis instrumentation.
This gives customers more choice and provides a path for labs that are considering switching from other data systems.
Due to Openlab's flexible architecture, customers can scale from individual workstations through networked workstations, to enterprise distributed data systems with easy and non-disruptive transitions.
This enables customers to adapt to present and future laboratory requirements.
Lab managers can utilise the central administration of Openlab CDS through the intuitive Shared Services Control Panel.
The control panel provides lab-at-a-glance status with a detailed overview of all the chromatographic instruments connected to the system.
Instruments are visible in an intuitive tree view and can be managed in a multilevel hierarchy, while instrument access can be managed through user privileges.
In a fully distributed configuration, managers can access any instrument from anywhere in the network or get instrument status information remotely from smart phones, including the Apple iPhone or iPad.
Lab productivity is enhanced by the Openlab CDS intelligent reporting, which enables customers to generate analytical reports in the format and with the results they need.
It uses intuitive drag-and-drop template creation and can also automate custom calculations.
Reports can be tailored to customers' precise needs - for example, minor component analyses can be simplified as customers can easily generate reports that zoom into specific regions of the chromatogram.
Openlab CDS can display a chromatogram at full scale and also be scaled to the largest impurity.
Agilent Openlab CDS is available as an upgrade to existing Chemstation, EZChrom Elite or Openlab ICM systems.
