VWorks Automation Control Software

• Meet changing requirements – Add and configure new devices using any programming language, and communicate with external Laboratory Information Systems (LIMS).
• Execute multiple protocols simultaneously – Schedule and start a run while existing protocols are already running or start multiple protocols at a fixed time.
• Remove bottlenecks to improve performance – Monitor a Gantt Chart for real time status of processes, plate instances, and devices.
• Reduce operating costs – Use the Hit Pick Wizard to automate cherry picking based on an input work list, and capture plate replication and dilution data.
• Comply with 21CFR Part 11 – VWorks includes technical tools to help you meet compliance requirments.
• Simplify protocol writing – Group commonly repeated tasks into Group Macros.
• Maximize walkaway time – Preload automatic recovery actions in response to nuisance errors in the error handling library.
• Set time constraints – Improve performance for time-critical assays by specifying the interval and tolerance between dependent tasks.
• Minimize delays – Use the Solid State Editor to recover from deadlocks and continue with the run especially in complex protocols.
• Maintain consistency – Control the sequence of liquid-handling tasks so that each microplate is handled the same way, in the same sequence.
• Find context-relevant help – Open help topic based on selection in software.
• Streamline protocol writing – Write JavaScript in VWorks protocols intuitively using a pull-down menu of available variables.
• Advanced looping – Set up and increment variables, plates, and quadrants in a loop intuitively.
• Control protocols based on real-time data – Execute protocols based on dynamic data presented in real time.
• Control protocols based on events – Reduce lag time and boost throughput by processing plates as soon as both plates and system resources become available.
• True-device pooling – Increase reliability and walkaway time through intelligent routing of plate processing tasks to appropriate operating devices.
• JavaScript engine – Customize task parameters, skip or repeat a task if certain conditions are met.

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