omation mbers - Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening
omation mbers - Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening
omation mbers - Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening
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11:30 am Thursday, February 5 Emerging Technologies – IT In<strong>for</strong>matics Room A3<br />
Gerald Knoll<br />
Fraunhofer Institute Manufacturing Engineering <strong>and</strong><br />
Aut<strong>omation</strong> (IPA)<br />
Nobelstrasse 12<br />
Stuttgart, D-70569 Germany<br />
gerald.knoll@ipa.fhg.de<br />
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Co-Author(s)<br />
Johann Dorner, Frank Bölstler,<br />
Joachim Seidelmann<br />
Universal <strong>and</strong> Mobile Messaging Framework M2A “Message to Anywhere” <strong>for</strong> <strong>Laboratory</strong><br />
Aut<strong>omation</strong><br />
This paper presents a software prototype <strong>for</strong> an universal <strong>and</strong> mobile Messaging Framework M2A “Message<br />
to Anywhere”. Access on actual laboratory data is an essential necessity in laboratory aut<strong>omation</strong>. This is how<br />
today’s laboratories are able to meet requirements as:<br />
• Faster changing processes with more reduced quantities<br />
• Access on various kinds of data<br />
• Configuration of laboratories distributed worldwide<br />
• Increase availability of laboratory equipment<br />
Mobility is an important factor in the cleanroom industry. <strong>Laboratory</strong> apparatus become much more flexible if they<br />
possess a mobile control (e.g., PDA, web-panel or cell phone). As a result, laboratory personnel need to coat less<br />
often due to the fact that an apparatus in a cleanroom can be controlled from any point. The time saved easily<br />
amounts to many hours per month. Furthermore, the risk of a probe becoming contaminated during its process<br />
is also reduced. In bio-engineering laboratories, the contamination hazard <strong>for</strong> laboratory personnel through lifethreatening<br />
substances can also be limited considerably by using a mobile control. The M2A-Framework consists<br />
of a communication layer complying with current st<strong>and</strong>ards. By using the buy-<strong>and</strong>-run principle, no software<br />
needs to be installed on the mobile end-device. A generic adapter permits the rapid linking of devices, equipment,<br />
<strong>and</strong> applications to the communication layer. A visualization component which is independent of the input/output<br />
device portrays directly the semantic model of the generic adapter. There<strong>for</strong>e, client in<strong>for</strong>mation as user manuals,<br />
ERP system order data or statically per<strong>for</strong>mance data are on h<strong>and</strong>, beside actual process data.
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