What is the best data system for my lab?

[bhaaf]

I am working in a small lab with ca. 10 GC’s. We have mostly Agilent GC’s but also some Thermo Trace GC’s and some old analog instruments.

We are looking for a new data system to control the instruments and record the data. Of course we want a system which is future proof (works well on new Windows versions and is updated regularly). We prefer a system which doesn’t need a lot of additional hardware like instrument controllers or dataservers.

Which one is the best for about two workstation PC’s?
- Agilent Openlab EZchrom
- Thermo Chromeleon
- Thermo Atlas
- Something else

Thanks for your advice!

[Csaba]

Hi,
“Best for my lab”: short question that only you can give the correct answer to by writing a good URS suitable for your requirements and then do a critical evaluation of the choices. If you send an email to CsabaU at Hotmail dot com, I can mail a URS outline to you.

A short but not complete list are:
www.ampersand-intl.com (for GC mostly/only?)
Agilent ChemStation (no support for Thermo GC, AFAIK)
Agilent EZChrom (requires external boxes AFAIK)
www.ChromPerfect.com (for GC mostly/only?)
www.DataApex.com Clarity (less common)
Hitachi Chromaster
PerkinElmer Chromera CDS (will replace PerkinElmer TotalChrom)
Shimadzu LabSolutions (no support for Thermo GC, AFAIK)
Waters Empower (requires external boxes and no support for Thermo GC, AFAIK)
Waters Unifi (will replace Empower in long run but not finished)
Thermo Chromeleon (my favorite)
Thermo Atlas (will be replaced by Chromeleon)

Hope it helps

[ACrawshaw]

Hi,

Chromeleon 7.1 will support both Agilent GC's (5890, 6850, 6890 and 7890) as well the Thermo Ultra and Trace GC's, including the new Trace 1300.

However, to run 10 GC's we would recommend more than 2 workstation PC's. In anycase, with a small installation such as this you would not need an additional dataserver as one of the workstations could act as this within a small network.

The software is extremely powerful, flexible and user friendly through its 'Intelligently Simple' design.

Please see the link below for further information:

http://www.dionex.com/en-us/webdocs/707 ... 200-01.pdf

But should you wish to find out more then I would recommend that you contact your local Thermo/Dionex sales rep. Alternatively I would be more than happy to put someone in touch with you.

Regards

[antonk]

We http://www.unichrom.com support these GCs http://www.unichrom.com/matrix-gce.shtml
in common style
http://www.unichrom.com/present/UniChro ... 11_eng.pdf