CollectX data logging for seamless integration and enhanced lab efficiency

In an increasingly digitized world, chemical laboratory automation systems like SYSTAG’s Flexy platform are producing huge amounts of meta data from reactions that can be harnessed for process efficiency and accelerated discovery.

An efficient data logging solution can collect all these data to ensure their accuracy and integrity. This makes a huge contribution to helping chemical laboratories ensure greater accuracy, efficiency, and safety in research and production.

Making data available and manageable

The multiplying volumes of data created from experiments, along with need for more complex data structuring, has compelled leading laboratories to adopt network data management systems such as LIMS Lab Information Management Software and ELN Electronic Lab Notebooks for central archiving and real time analysis. The adopted data logging system must be able to interface with such systems.

The right solution should also feature Cloud-based logging to allow secure data storage and sharing across teams, so that the R&D team can access real-time experimental data across multiple locations, accelerating collaboration.

CollectX Advantages

SYSTAG has developed CollectX as an Automated Data Logging System that allows laboratories to make a quick transition from manual record-keeping to digital, real-time data management, improving productivity and reliability.

CollectX is designed as a robust and flexible data logging solution to the key needs in laboratory environments:

• Real-Time Data Transfer and Archiving: CollectX enables automatic, real-time transfer of all process-relevant data, ensuring seamless data archiving. This functionality allows researchers to access integrated data anytime and from any location, facilitating efficient data management and analysis.
• Structured Data Management: The system organizes raw data into structured formats, enhancing the ability to filter and analyze information effectively. This structured approach provides clear overviews of large datasets, streamlining the search for relevant information and optimizing data retrieval processes.
• Comprehensive Data Analysis Tools: SYSTAG’s expertise in chemical science, automated reactions, and lab IT systems enables CollectX to offer advanced, standardized interfaces for data analysis. These tools transform collected data into actionable insights, supporting informed decision-making and knowledge development within laboratory settings.
• Integration with Laboratory Automation Systems: CollectX seamlessly integrates with SYSTAG’s suite of laboratory automation solutions, such as FlexyCUBE and FlexyPAT. This integration ensures consistent data capture and reporting across various lab control systems, enhancing overall laboratory efficiency and coherence. CollectX can be installed on any SYSTAG system featuring FlexySys 3.1 and above.
• Compliance with Regulatory Standards: The system is built to GxP, CFR Chapter 11 and EU Annex 11 standards for data security and integrity. This focus ensures that laboratories maintain high standards in data management, meeting industry regulations and best practices. In line with GxP guidelines and FDA/EMA regulations, the system provides traceable records for audits and inspections and ensures adherence to 21 CFR Part 11 (electronic records & signatures).

CollectX capabilities

Key CollectX features include:

• Flexible Data Transfer Modes: The ‘Live’ Mode allows real-time data transfer during experiments with user-defined logging rates, while ‘Batch’ Mode enables data transfer after experiment completion, providing flexibility in data management.
• Comprehensive Data Handling for Process, Journal, and Recipe Data Management: CollectX records various data types, including alarms and event frames, ensuring a holistic data capture with manual or automatic setting of time markers for precise event tracking.
• Secure and Structured Data Management: The system uses queue buffering to ensure secure data transfer, along with data pre-processing to offer enhanced structuring and declaration capabilities, such as automatic generation of event frames, for organized data analysis.
• Integration Capabilities: Weighting Scale Connection allows recording of manual dosimetry by taking in data from weighting scales.
• ELN Data Import: Importation of ELN data provides researchers with dropdown selection menus of available educts.
• ODBC Compatibility: CollectX can connect to any database system featuring an ODBC interface or other data processing systems using a standard OPC client interface. In practice, this means CollectX can be used with all the systems used by front-line laboratories, including Perkin Elmer ELN, OSLoft PI Server data handling, Oracle database, LabVIEW visualization, Redshift data warehousing, and Spotfire data analysis.

Resources

Click on CollectX Real time data link to laboratory informatics to download system flyer.
Click on SYSTAG Data Management to learn more.