omation mbers - Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening

11:30 am Thursday, February 5 Genomics – Advanced Topics Room A1
Ralf Muckenhirn
Fraunhofer IPA
Nobel Strasse 12
Stuttgart, 70569 Germany
rhm@ipa.fhg.de
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Co-Author(s)
Philipp Dreiss
Johann Dorner
Akhauri P. Kumar
Future Clinical Analysis: Component Based Framework for Modular Hardware and Software
Integration of Different Clinical Equipment
The Component Based Framework provides the mechanism to define the existing clinical equipment in form of
hardware modules, which can be a combination of different analysis equipment performing specific operations
or it can be, containers which carry the incoming and outgoing samples or it can be, manufacturing islands
such as clinical equipments not integrated in the current Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS).
Thus defined hardware modules can be clustered together with central handling system (cluster) responsible
for transporting the samples to the individual modules (analysis equipments) These modules can be connected/
disconnected to/from the clusters dynamically, even in an ongoing analysis process. This allows the system
wide scheduling to optimize and configure the analysis area based on the actual needs. In addition to this the
Component Based Framework provides dedicated services such as:
• centralized database to store sample information and its current position
• centralized access rights management to establish equipment specific access rights configuration,
• recipe management system to provide recipes on demand,
• equipment management component to administrate the analysis equipment,
• analysis planning unit providing connectivity to LIMS and translating incoming sample information to analysis
area internal sample information,
• scheduler component to interpret the internal information and to generate a schedule,
• process management component to execute the analysis specific process recipes
The presentation will show the hardware mapping of these modules by the software and the corresponding
required software components as discussed above to show the easy and rapid deployment of such frameworks
allowing a very high degree of flexibility in sense of adaptation to new analysis steps.
PODIUM ABSTRACTS