Documenting Manual Integrations in Empower Software

[mtruchan]

Our QAP requires documentation of all manual integrations by providing a "snapshot" of the peak or chromatogram before and after a manual integration is performed.

Do any Empower users know how I can handle documentation of manually altered peaks? Ideally, I would like a file of the chromatogram that can be converted to PDF. This "snapshot" must include information such as the sample ID, date, time, and clear evidence of the manual integration.

If this is not possible, can Empower data files be imported into Chemstation? We have solved the manual integration issue on that platform.

Thanks for your help and comments!

[aceto_81]

How about saving both and make a report method to print them?

Ace

[mtruchan]

I guess I should have mentioned I am a Chemstation user with zero experience using Empower.

How do I save both?

And how do I create a customize report?

[aceto_81]

If your are in review: click integrate and quantitate, save, do your manual integrations and save again.

To make reports, that's a bit complicated to explain through the forum, I hope you have someone with you that can guide you.
If you have specific questions however, do feel free to post them and will help you if I can.

Ace

[mtruchan]

I figured my question would be a bit of a long shot.

We should be able to figure it out, just need to be pointed in right direction. I have Millenium 32 experience, but that was 14 years ago and gone from memory.

Thanks!

[mtruchan]

Do you know if it is possible to change the manual integration data flags in Empower? It uses a series of letters to describe the event. I would like to use a lower case "m" to flag a peak as manually integrated.

[nick22]

I'm not sure if it's possible to change the settings but Empower 2 uses capital letters to denote automatic integration and lower case letters for manual integration. For example: "BB" would be an automatically integrated peak, "bb" a manually integrated peak, and "Bb" a peak where the start was picked automatically but the tail end was manually adjusted. Hope this helps.