Laboratory information management system (LIMS) SIMATIC IT Unilab - a platform that allows you to keep all the main aspects of quality control processes, covering the planning phase, the production and analysis, creating a common information system of automation of the analytical units in the enterprise.
Integration system industrial gas chromatograph – Unilab ensures an online quality control and adherence to manufacturing process by automated gathering, processing and storage of the information about a process of production, current information output to the process control operator, stabilizing of main process parameters.
Ordinary laboratory
=> Decreasing of work efficiency and productivity in the laboratory.
Laboratory with LIMS
=> Increasing of efficiency of analytical quality control. Increasing of productivity without labor cost growth.
The following tasks are solved during the determination and analysis phase:
– to determine design limits;
– to analyse the current business processes;
– to review the main technical processes;
– to design the improved business processes;
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Every chromatograph is equipped with the Ethernet-port for connection to the plant network Ethernet (Enterprise bus), through which the data transfer to the OPC Server is carried out. Then, due to the integration system the data are transferred to the на SIMATIC IT Unilab Server and are shown in the client-end portion SIMATIC IT Unilab. User can on-line look through the analysis results and immediately control the production quality.
Also the information about the sample analysis is transferred from the chromatographs over the Ethernet through SIMATIC.NETOPCServer to PLC, which carry out the control of technical process and work of equipment. ACS of TP allows the operator to interfere into the process operation by the parameter breaking and by emergent accidents or accidental situations.
Service Maxum Unilab Integration delivers «Sample Message» into SIMATIC IT Unilab.
Sample registration and add of the analysis results goes automatically, without interfering of lab assistant. Then, comes the phase of sample confirmation. The analysis results are compared to the limit values of norm. If the sample doesn’t fall outside the limits of norm, it has a status “Accepted” and shines greenly. If it falls outside the limits of norm, it has a status “On hold” and shines redly. After the sample processing is finished, we can look through the diagrams of statistics of the analysis results.
Information about the process operation from ACS of TP and about the analysis results from GCMAXUMII is transferred through the OPCServer into the data collection system, TMSChronicler. Then, the analysis results due to the integration system MAXUM-Unilab come to SIMATICIT Unilab and over the plant network are transfered further to the request of the specific control systems. The connection between the control systems is carried out by MicrosoftBizTalkServer.