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2019

SiLA 2 hands on : bringing automation to the laboratory

Ever heard about SiLA ? It stands for Standard in Lab Automation, and if you’re not working in automation of life science laboratories, you are probably hearing about this for the first time. In this blog post I will introduce you the benefits of SiLA 2 (the latest version of the standard) and show a hands-on example how the standard can help and simplify laboratory equipment integration into your IT systems.

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Let’s set the scene

In a perfect world all your equipment would provide the same way of controlling the functions and accessing the data. Integrating the equipment into your IT landscape would become both consistent and less tedious.

Sadly, until now, several issues may occur :

  • in iot, cloud
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Real-time OPC-UA tags monitoring in the cloud with AWS IoT

Wouldn’t it be nice to see your field data in (near) real-time? To be able to build a powerful dashboard in a matter of minutes to monitor your process, or start digitizing your visual management practices.

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We all have of favorite OPC server depending on the task, but for me it is Kepware. The nice thing about OPC servers is usually that they cover way more communication protocols and allow us to connect to otherwise non-OPC compatible machines.