Archive for October, 2009
SiLA earns strong confirmation on MipTec
More than 70 visitors attended this year’s SiLA Luncheon at MipTec. SiLA president Peter Schleiffer and CTO Dieter Speidel presented an impressive report on deliverables developed by SiLA during the last 12 months and a brief outlook into next year’s focus activities.
Jason Meredith (Tecan) and Carsten Etzold (Hamilton) explained their motivation and involvement to support the SiLA standardisation activities. Implementations of the SiLA interface standard were shown during the luncheon and on the SiLA booth in the exhibitor’s area during the MipTec conference. Numerous representatives of supplier, system integration and applier organisations were visiting the SiLA booth to inform themselves about the SiLA program and membership.
This year’s MipTec event confirmed the increasing need of the lab automation industry for standardisation of device and data interfaces.
SiLA Status September 2009
Posted by dspeidel in Announcements on October 1st, 2009
SiLA will achieve all major goals set in the plan for the year 2009 and has even started additional activities such as standardisation of labware specifications and data capture.
The most intensive part of the work, SiLA’s General Interface Specification (Part I) has been finalized by end of August, Part II will be completed before end of this year. As a result, the SiLA standard will be ready for implementation by end of 2009 .
The 2009 SiLA success stories are as follows:
- SiLA General Interface Specification (Part I) V1.0 is released and available.
- First draft of SiLA Data Class Specifications will be ready for review in Q4 2009
- Status of SiLA Device Class Interface Specifications
- Incubators: ready for review
- Dispensers: ready for review
- Readers: under development
- Pipettors: workgroup will start during the last quarter of this year
- Robots: workgroup will start during the last quarter of this year
- SiLA Labware Parameter Settings First draft will be available by end of Q4 2009
- Research Project for Standardisation of result data structures and formats
- Pilot Projects
Several member companies started their first implementations of the SiLA interface standard in pilot projects and products development already in Q3. - SiLA Certification procedures and trainings are being prepared to allow us offering these services during the course of the first half of 2010 to our implementation partners.
Technical presentation of first SiLA Standards
Posted by dspeidel in Announcements on October 1st, 2009
SiLA invites for technical presentation of the first SiLA standards which will take place on October 14, 14:00-15:30 at MipTec in Basel.
AGENDA
14:00 Welcome and short intro
14:15 SiLA General Interface Specification V1.0: Short overview on the content of our first released version
14:30 SiLA Incubator Device Class Interface Specification: Detailed presentation and kick-off for review
14:50 SiLA Dispenser Device Class Interface Specification: Detailed presentation and kick-off for review
15:10 Discussion
15:30 Registrations for review
Attendance for the technical presentation at MipTec is limited. Registrations will be accepted in date order. Admission is free of charge (SiLA Membership required).
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