Our customer is a leading manufacturer of water pollution monitoring products and chromatography instruments.

The customer’s pioneering personal chromatography system comes with advanced communication functionalities. For instance, it can be controlled or monitored from anywhere using an Internet connection. Alternatively, it can send you an e-mail alert when the separation is complete. Our customer has been able to retain its leadership position by strengthening its core industrial process control instrument lines. Pursuing this cause, the company now considered enhancing/maintaining its personal chromatography products.

The Solution

Our solution was predicated as much on technology platforms – Visual Basic on WinXP/2000, Qt Designer on Red Hat Linux 8.0/9.0, C, C++, Shell scripts on Red Hat Linux 8.0/9.0, HTTP, Apache server – as on the learnings we gleaned from past engagements with the customer.

The major enhancements included:

	Enhancing printing options – touch screen companions support USB flash drives for printing data
	Changing all-run parameters on-the-fly
	Rf to gradient conversion (e.g., separation of biphenyl and benzophenone)
	Method scaling
	Purity determination for dual wavelength detection
	Detection wavelength for peak detection
	Monitoring Wavelength for monitoring separations at different wavelengths
	Diverting to waste

Apart from cost arbitrage, our solution delivered the following benefits:

	Enriched the personal flash chromatography system leading to superior end user experience
	Augmented the customer’s core industrial process control instrument line