Description
Compass Chromatography Data System (CDS) is SCION Instruments’ Chromatography Data System designed for instrument control, data acquisition, processing and reporting. With its unique capacity for customization, CompassCDS provides users with a powerful data analysis tool with comprehensive calibration and calculation options. Originating from the legacy Varian Galaxie CDS, Compass CDS has evolved into the next generation chromatography data system which easily integrates with Laboratory Information management Systems (LIMS), Process Control Systems (PCS), System Control and Data Acquisition Systems (SCADA), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other commonly used data management systems.
The Compass CDS operator-friendly and intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) has been designed to improve the operator experience by streamlining workflows thereby increasing sample throughput and overall productivity. The Dual View function, when used in conjunction with the InstantView option, enables users to run samples, view live data acquisition and review and report results from a single screen without the need to retrieve any data files.
Compass CDS also comes standard with the feature set required to support laboratories that are required to comply with 21CFR11 and ISO/IEC 17025, and others.
CompassCDS can be installed as a simple, single PC workstation application controlling a couple of instruments through to a multi-lab, multi-vendor and multi-instrument networked enterprise client/server solution and anything in between. When deployed as a client/server system, CompassCDS can be installed in a number of configurations that conform with the current networking and operating system architectures including classic “fat” client, metaframe “thin client” and virtualized environments, and in certain instances, combinations of these. The CompassCDS unique acquisition and control architecture can be centralized on the main server or distributed among several acquisition servers/PCs and should a computer controlling the instruments fail, the ownership and subsequent control of those instruments can be quickly transferred to another PC with a few mouse clicks.
Secure, Centralized Administration
Using the separate and secure Configuration Manager, system administrators can build their own customized CompassCDS structure, in terms of groups, projects, data storage paths, users, user access profiles, instruments, regulatory compliance and overall system security policies, from any CompassCDS computer on the network.
Configuration Manager settings are invisible to CompassCDS users while all of their actions including logon/logoff, run starts and stops etc. are monitored and recorded in archivable audit logs in compliance with 21CRF11.