omation mbers - Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening

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Philipp Dreiss
Fraunhofer IPA
Department Cleanroom Manufacturing
Nobelstr. 12
Stuttgart 70569 Germany
Dreiss@ipa.fhg.de
Capability Management Framework for Clinical Equipment in Laboratory
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Co-Author(s)
R. Muckenhirn
J. Dorner
A. P. Kumar
The Capability Management Framework (CMF) system provides predefined and configurable sets of developed
software components for the examination and evaluation of analysis results based on system and process
capability patterns during the analysis process. CMF takes into account all the analysis steps and the machine
parameters, which are necessary for the analysis to recognize the non-trivial coherence among the system,
process capabilities and the related parameters, which can be responsible for the origination of system, process
capability deviations. The evaluation criteria, strategies and expert knowledge are provided by the knowledge
based system. CMF as an object-oriented framework can be used for a rapid development and integration
of capability management based services within a clinical environment for scheduling and dispatching. These
services extend the current features of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). The following
presentation will depict the associated development process and the corresponding integration of its components
in the existing software architectures and services for how to setup communication. It includes the basic
framework elements, services and its integration to the other already existing software architectures. The main
topics are the basic software components and the underlying communication infrastructure and protocols that
support during a rapid setup and configuration process. Further the concepts for service registration and discovery
in the context of the clinical environment are pointed out. The concept is shown by an implementation based for
several equipment types as used in semiconductor manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries.
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Ping Du
Black Mountain Scientific
4 Fullerton Place
Livingston, New Jersey 07039
blackmountainscientific@yahoo.com
SHOW – Sample Handling Operation Wizard
Manual sample handling, such as moving samples or recording data visually, is a tedious and error prone
process. Sample Handling Operation Wizard (SHOW) is a system developed to guide manual sample handling in
laboratories. It comprises a sample tray mounted on a 15" flat-panel computer monitor. Up to four transparent
micro titer plates and up to eight reagent vials may be placed on the sample tray. Images of the wells of the plates
and vials are generated on the monitor and controlled by computer software. These images are directly aligned
with the positions of the physical wells or vials. By highlighting the wells or vials involved in a sample handling
step of a predefined protocol, manual operations can be performed with precise guidance from the system. As a
result, the risk of locating a wrong sample or placing a sample at a wrong location can be minimized, and sample
handling operations become more efficient and less stressful.
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