Implementing a Mission Critical Client/Server Chromatography Data System for Continuous Uptime - Application of Thermo Scientific Atlas CDS and Microsoft Cluster Service

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc, announces the availability of a new case study about its Atlas CDS (Chromatography Data System) in the process control laboratory of a global organisation. The case study details a project undertaken on behalf of one of the world’s largest manufacturers operating in more than 20 countries across North America, South America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The manufacturer selected Thermo Scientific Atlas CDS to control and process data from the more than 60 gas and liquid chromatographs in their process control laboratory. With a demanding workflow, where a typical chromatographic analysis is expected to occur within 30 minutes or less during routine work operations, the continuous availability and operation of instruments and their data
processing through a CDS are part of a manufacturing-critical operation. Thermo Scientific Atlas CDS is used by the manufacturer to provide distributed instrument access, chromatography data acquisition and data calculations for management to assess the quality and performance of various manufacturing processes.

As part of a laboratory modernisation initiative, the manufacturer wanted to make its CDS more robust and reliable and to design and implement a solution that would automatically perform server failovers without impacting laboratory operations. To reduce the incidence of single point of failure for the manufacturer’s existing CDS, the solution involved the implementation of Atlas CDS on Microsoft Cluster
Service (MSCS). Implemented with the Microsoft Cluster Service, Atlas CDS operates with complete uptime, even when a server system is down due to scheduled or unscheduled system maintenance events. Users can process samples in real-time, which is essential for critical samples. The use of Atlas CDS on MSCS does not impact real-time processing so mission-critical results can be obtained and plant notified
if process changes are required.

A copy of this in-depth case study, entitled “Implementing a Mission Critical Client/Server Chromatography Data System for Continuous Uptime – Application of Thermo Scientific Atlas CDS and Microsoft Cluster Service” is available for download from http://marketing.thermoinformatics.com/cds.