Utility for designing custom workflows integrates sample and analytical data, enabling users to effectively manage the tasks and practices of the laboratory
Advanced Chemistry Development (ACD/Labs) introduces Workflow Manager, a utility for designing custom workflows that integrates sample and analytical data, enabling users to effectively manage the tasks and practices of laboratory- or enterprise-wide analytical sample management.
Workflow Manager provides an intuitive, user-friendly interface for creating and editing a workflow diagram, and for developing all of the necessary forms and actions required for its execution.
Administrators can define the number of states from start to finish that a sample must pass through during its life cycle, and then specify the transition activities to be executed while the sample is passing from state to state.
Workflow Manager seamlessly integrates with other ACD/Labs software to form a complete analytical data and sample management system.
SpecManager SQL enables centralised database storage and distribution via Oracle client-server architecture. New database records created in the SpecManager database can be bound to the associated Workflow Manager project as samples, and later updated with analytical results acquired by various SpecManager modules.
Web Librarian links to both SpecManager SQL and Workflow Manager to enable database and file viewing through a standard web browser.
During the workflow process, Web Librarian interrogates the workflow definitions within Workflow Manager to check for and prompt the next available state for a given sample so that the appropriate actions can begin.
Actions performed on either a workflow or a sample are logged to an audit trail and can be reviewed at any time.
Antony Williams, VP scientific development and marketing at ACD/Labs, states: "SpecManager SQL and its integration to Workflow Manager now offers analytical laboratories a complete end-to-end solution. "This solution will address workflow management, sample tracking, analytical data processing, chemical structure integration, and a databasing system which will act as a single repository for all of this information and knowledge.
"We feel that we have finally addressed the true needs of a research and discovery analytical laboratory."
