TA Instruments Helps Laboratories Automate Thermal Analysis Workflows with New TRIOS AutoPilot Software
29 June 2021 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Software Automates and Standardizes Materials
Science Laboratory Workflows to Help Drive Thermal Analysis Testing
Efficiency, Ensure Product Quality and Reduce Risk
NEWS SUMMARY:
- First of its kind software for TA’s thermal analysis product
line, helping customers save time and money by automating standard
operating procedures.
- Accelerates laboratory efficiency and reduces risks by
simplifying the process of making analytical measurements for
product development and quality control.
- TRIOS can save analysts 25% on the time previously spent
creating and running thermal analysis SOPs and performing tedious
repetitive tasks.
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today introduced TRIOS AutoPilot
software from its TA Instruments Division for its thermal analyzer
product line. The software helps laboratory staff using TA’s
thermal analyzers create routine and streamlined standard operating
procedures (SOPs) up to 25% faster, and avoid transcription errors
that can inhibit productivity and can lead to inconsistent thermal
analysis measurements that are used to assess materials performance
as well as batch-to-batch product quality.
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First-of-its-kind software for the TA
Instruments thermal analysis product line, TRIOS AutoPilot software
helps laboratory staff create routine and streamlined standard
operating procedures (SOPs) up to 25% faster, and avoid
transcription errors that can inhibit productivity and can lead to
inconsistent thermal analysis measurements. TRIOS AutoPilot is the
first thermal analysis software to be based on Google’s visual
programming interface, Blockly, which is opensource software that
gives operators an intuitive way to create custom scripts and
configure them for thermal analysis applications without the need
to learn a higher-level programming language. (Photo: Business
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“Next to reliable and sensitive analytical instrumentation,
modern, easy-to-use instrument software is key to unlocking
scientific creativity and productivity,” said Jianqing Bennett,
Senior Vice President, TA Instruments Division of Waters
Corporation. “Whether they’re making measurements in a research lab
or production environment, TRIOS AutoPilot software gives customers
a new level of simplicity for getting uniform thermal analysis data
faster and reduces costs associated with training and re-training
operators to run samples properly.”
As a premium feature now available for TA Instruments’ thermal
analyzers and rheometers, the TRIOS AutoPilot software OneTouch
interface guides operators with video and text prompts that
simplifies the process of getting test results. The software comes
with a comprehensive set of pre-written express scripts for
automating many common procedures such as sample loading,
instrument calibration and verification, and formatting and
exporting data files into laboratory information management systems
(LIMS).
TRIOS AutoPilot Adapts to the Way Continental R&D Works -
With Speed and Flexibility
The R&D laboratory at Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH,
in Hanover, Germany, develops and performs laboratory test methods
for characterizing new and experimental rubber compounds that one
day could progress into serial compounds for passenger car or truck
tires as well as commercial specialty tires. Dr. Hagen Schoenfeld,
Department Manager - Test Method Development and Industrialization
at Continental, is responsible for the development and transfer of
new material testing methods into the company’s different labs
which are typically equipped with test instruments of every
conceivable kind, and every kind of proprietary software.
“Personally, I am not focused on learning everything there is to
know about how instrument software works in detail,” said
Schoenfeld. “In R&D, we are more interested in software that
allows us to exercise our test and measurement creativity in a
flexible way while enabling us to work faster,” said Dr.
Schoenfeld.
Dr. Juergen Tschimmel, Senior Scientist for test method
development at Continental, has experienced how TRIOS Autopilot,
and TA Instruments, works first-hand. “The TRIOS Autopilot
maximizes our flexibility for addressing R&D-related questions
and the software’s OneTouch feature ensures a safe, simple and
operator-independent execution of our tests in a production
facility,” Tschimmel adds. “Throughout the implementation process,
TA provided us with excellent support and cooperation.”
Easily Configured Scripts for Any Task
TRIOS AutoPilot is the first thermal analysis software to be
based on Google’s visual programming interface, Blockly, which is
opensource software that gives operators an intuitive way to create
custom scripts and configure them for thermal analysis applications
without the need to learn a higher-level programming language. This
allows laboratories to capture written SOPs, along with the
institutional knowledge of more experienced operators, and codify
them into scripts that can be shared throughout the enterprise.
To ensure compliance with regulatory requirements such as
21CFRPart11, TRIOS AutoPilot software features built-in audit
trails and data integrity options with electronic signatures.
TRIOS AutoPilot software is now available worldwide from TA
Instruments.
Additional Resources
- Learn more about TRIOS AutoPilot on our web site.
- Connect with TA Instruments via LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and
Facebook
About TA Instruments Division (www.tainstruments.com)
TA Instruments, a division of Waters Corporation, is the leading
manufacturer of analytical instruments for thermal analysis,
rheology and microcalorimetry. The Division is headquartered in New
Castle, Delaware, USA, and has direct operations in 24
countries.
About Waters Corporation (www.waters.com)
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT), the world's leading specialty
measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass
spectrometry, and thermal analysis innovations serving the life,
materials, food and environmental sciences for more than 60 years.
With more than 7,400 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly
in 35 countries, including 14 manufacturing facilities, and with
products available in more than 100 countries.
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