Whether you operate a single PC, oversee several HP ChemStations, or run the whole laboratory, controlling and monitoring the analytical instrumentation is the uppermost concern. The new HP ChemAccess Client/Server system lets you do all from any client in the network in a state-of-the-art NT-based client/server environment.

Most laboratory personnel find storing data from individual PCs inconvenient at best; backing up the data on diskettes is time-consuming and often interferes with data acquisition. Now the HP ChemAccess Client/Server system offers centralized data management shared by all users. It simplifies correlating raw data, processed data, and stored methods and makes them accessible for reference and integration.

The HP ChemAccess Client/Server system combines the power of HP ChemStations with the most advanced concepts in computing for the laboratory. The ChemAccess Client associated with HP ChemStations for gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, and capillary electrophoresis* are standards-based Microsoft® Windows applications that offer a single approach to instrument control, data evaluation, reporting, and automation.

Increased Information Flow
The Clients use Windows® 3.11, Windows 95, or Windows NT^TM workstation software that ensures a smooth integration into the laboratory environment. The Servers utilize Windows NT server software providing secure centralized control of information, offering the laboratory increased information flow and laboratory productivity.

ChemAccess Key Features
A ChemAccess Client/Server system builds on the strengths of the HP ChemStation family to provide a number of key features.

The Microsoft Windows NT-based network Server - preferably based on one of Hewlett-Packard's NetServers - provides: Centralized file sharing Sharing of peripheral equipment Server-based installation of HP ChemStation software Logon, passwords, and file system security Centralized backup The HP ChemAccess Client/Server software provides: Overall laboratory status Single instrument status Remote real-time plot Remote method and sequence control Remote macro execution Tools for organizing data

HP ChemAccess offers a new perspective on your laboratory.

To be operational, an HP ChemAccess Client/Server system requires both server NT hardware and software.

Who Will Benefit the Most?
ChemAccess benefits primarily laboratories that are oriented toward single-user (PC) systems. Operations with a need to share and integrate data and methods across a variety of both HP and non-HP instrumentation can now freely move information between stations, back up data, and use all available periperals by choice. Laboratories with HP GC and HPLC ChemStations can remote-access all instrumentation and call up data. Where compliance with moderately to highly regulated industry procedures is essential in pharmaceutical development, for instance ChemAccess offers the tool s for streamlining and improvement.

Return on Investment: Greater Lab Efficiency
The ChemAccess computing approach delivers numerous benefits in data management and archiving, among others. For permanent data storage, for example, projects can be archived to a read/write MO. The centralized data management system of the ChemAccess approach enables one person to archive for everyone and simplifies the retrieval of old projects. By investing in a client/server computing model, a chromatography laboratory can protect its investment in hardware, software, and user training and place greater management power in the hands of those who need it in dealing with data decisions on a daily basis. At the same time, lab routines proceed with maximum flexibility to take advantage of emerging technologies and methodologies.

The client/server environment simplifies managing the relationship of raw data, processed data, and the methods developed for specific purposes. Information backup is easier, as is the ability to share data and methods. The ability to lock up methods (through NT security), once they are developed, increases security and makes it easier to upgrade to new versions. As a result, laboratory personnel can spend more time converting information into analytical knowledge - overall productivity of the laboratory increases in the process.

*GS/MS ChemStation users are not supported at present.
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