Automation and Workflow Management

Automate Your Processes Effectively and Extract Your Results Efficiently

Considering the demand for more efficiency at all levels in industry, ACD/Labs' capabilities in the areas of automated processing, automated data collection, and Workflow Management can help companies build their own solutions that eliminate routine daily tasks and provide easy access to results to make quick and smart decisions.

The key to a good workflow solution involves the implementation of a simple yet robust platform that can suit the various needs of a small or large business. Furthermore it warrants the ability to extend deployments and workflows (with little effort) beyond arbitrary complexities when business processes evolve or workloads increase.

ACD/Labs offers a comprehensive toolkit that provides the flexibility needed to design automated workflows that can be customized to suit each of your department's business needs: ACD/Labs Analytical Automation Suite.

Design Custom Workflows to Manage Analytical Data and Samples

In addition to automated processing of analytical data, ACD/Labs software users can devise the workflow of sample analysis, and develop all of the necessary forms and actions for its execution. These tools allow users to submit and monitor sample status in an analytical workflow and to do so using web-based tools that require no desktop installation.

Related product: ACD/Workflow Manager

Accelerate Standard Data Processing

Automating a series of standard preprocessing steps, such as background correction, smoothing, peak picking and integration, and spectral assignment, can save time and ensure consistent data treatment. Avoid repetitive tasks by creating a macro to perform standard processing steps. Macros are simple to create and use, from either drop-down menus, by copying previous processing steps from the history window, or by using plain English to write macro commands.

Relevant Module: ACD/SpecManager spectral and chromatographic data processing and databasing software.

Automatically Import, Process, and Report Results

If you can automate your standard data processing and analysis tasks, would it be valuable to implement a "hands-free" utility that can automatically import data files, process the data, and report your results as well? Facilitate higher throughputs by overcoming data import and management barriers in your organization. Capture analytical data from your instruments, process the data, and populate spectral databases for company-wide access in a completely automated workflow.

Read more about ACD/Automation Server.

Shorten Communication Paths for Better Decision-Making

Once the automation efforts are completed, a way to effectively communicate these results so quick and informed actions can be taken is needed. ACD/Labs software provides enterprise-wide deployment of databases that unite spectrometric, chromatographic, and other analytical curve data in a single analytical data management system that can be made available to different teams throughout the entire organization. Furthermore the process of database population can be completely automated and then shared with others as a web-based deployment.

For more information, read about ACD/SpecManager SQL or ACD/Web Librarian, also available as modules of the ACD/Labs Analytical Automation Suite.

To view an example of a fully-automated workflow for an open-access NMR Laboratory built with ACD/Labs software, click here.