Archive for June, 2009
Corning and RTS join SiLA
Posted by dspeidel in Announcements on June 29th, 2009
SiLA welcomes RTS Group (Manchester, UK) and Corning Life Sciences Europe (Amsterdam, Netherlands) as new supporting members.
Design Review of SiLA General Interface Specification (Part I)
Posted by dspeidel in Announcements on June 15th, 2009
SiLA General Interface Specification (Part I) has been submitted today to the SiLA Membership for review. A team of 12 specialists from 8 different SiLA member companies have joined their efforts to develop this specification within a relatively short timeframe. The General Interface Specification covers all 7 ISO/OSI levels from physical connection up to the application layer. Part II will cover basic and complex data types and be ready for review in just a few weeks.
Cybio and CTC Analytics join SiLA
Posted by dspeidel in Announcements on June 12th, 2009
SiLA welcomes Cybio AG (Jena, Germany) and CTC Analytics AG (Zwingen, Switzerland) as new supporting members.
Toolpoint CEO Event at Novartis in Basel
Posted by dspeidel in Announcements, Events on June 3rd, 2009
Toolpoint’s annual CEO Event at Novartis Campus in Basel on 29.05.2009, was dominated by the SiLA standardisation project. Novartis was hosting 35 attendees, mostly CEOs or top management representatives of Toolpoint member companies and -this year for the first time- guests from the SiLA members circle.
Novartis’ global head of the Center for Proteomic Chemistry, Sylvain Cottens and Peter Fürst, Head of Lead Finding Platform Basel, were pointing out the criticalityof standardisation allowing rapid integration and flexibility in adaptation to new application or workflow requirements. Looking at the complexity and the high number of different lab automation systems Novartis was building for their lead finding platform, the need for standardisation becomes more than obvious.
Fürst and Cottens both appealed to the managers of lab automation equipment manufacturing companies to strongly support the SiLA project and thereby making sure that new products will meet the true needs of the pharma industry for being able to build and maintain reliable, flexible and cost effective systems.
Peter Schleiffer, managing director of Toolpoint and SiLA’s president, and Dieter Speidel, CTO of SiLA, promised Novartis to keep up and even increase the strong pace in which SiLA is moving forward towards establishing the global standard for rapid integration.
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