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Overlord3 lab automation control software |
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Overlord3 is the first laboratory automation scheduler that seamlessly contains both dynamic (event driven) and static (time driven) scheduling in one application.
What is a scheduler ? What is Overlord ?
Fully compatible with the Overlord3 driver library, Overlord3 combines all the existing event-driven, real-time functionality of Overlord3 with the addition of time-resolved static and dynamic scheduling all in one box !
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which scheduler?
Overlord3
Overlord3 SocketSet
Overlord3 Remoting
Software Development Kit
Overlord3 instrument drivers
Overlord Scheduler
21 cfr (Part 11) version
Assay Manager
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Structure: Software Trends in Automation
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Presentation: "Solutions for scheduling assays"
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- Overlord3 is the ONLY laboratory automation scheduling package that offers real-time/event-driven AND static/dynamic scheduling in the SAME software package
- You can develop and optimise automation applications with a single software package.
- Difficult decisions on what scheduling algorithm to use are a thing of the past. Overlord3 is … never having to ask yourself, which is the best scheduler for a job.
- Overlord3 always presents the best solution for a batch of samples, rapid plate management OR plates all treated the same depending on the assay.
- Overlord3 is quicker and easier to set-up.
- You now only have to define the procedure for one assay. The new 'assay procedure' in Overlord3 allows a process to be defined within a few steps in a flow chart. No more complex procedures with sub-procedures. Overlord3 does the rest. Users will also find it easier to run their process with Overlord3 - the user interface is simpler and provides more information. For example Overlord3 prompts users where to load labware, estimates time required to complete all assays and provides a Gantt chart display showing exactly where you are as the run progresses.
- Overlord3 provides proper error detection with full error recovery, not available in most time resolved schedulers
- Overlord3 is based on the reliable Overlord3 and uses the same driver library that has been developed over the last 10 years. Providing the largest library of any automation scheduler, currently containing drivers for more than 350 instruments.
- Upgrading to Overlord3 couldn't be easier, to the new 'assay procedure', Overlord3 is fully compatible with existing Overlord3 standard procedures allowing seamless migration.
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- Multiple document interface
- Intuitive, multi-threaded application, with Vista interface
- Developed in .NET
- Parallel processing on multiple instruments
- Advanced run-time error checking and recovery
- Empowering advanced users
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- Ease of programming
- Rapid assay development
- Increased plate throughput
- Reduced downtime - Fully recoverable from device errors
- Powerful design environment
- Support for device pooling
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- simple plate loading to instrument with barcode tracking
- integrated multiple instrument parallel processing (round robin, see here for more details)
- integrated distributed multiple pc systems
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| Overlord Workstation (Overlord1, real-time, event driven scheduler) was written to control the National DNA database sample preparation and analysis system at the Forensic Science Service in the UK in the mid-1990s. Overlord Scheduler (static scheduler) was commissioned from paa by GlaxoSmithKline to write a competing software for SAMI that was easier to use for simple systems, The increasing popularity of Overlord Workstation led us to develop Overlord2 (real-time, event driven scheduler) which was a complete rewrite of the Overlord Workstation product in .NET, rather than Visual Basic 6 which was used for Overlord Workstation and Overlord Scheduler. We also took the opportunity to separate the user interface from the runtime engine, which led to the replacement of the flow chart user interface with Assay Manager on some systems. Overlord3 takes the successful Overlord2 interface and real-time, event driven scheduler runtime engine and adds a static/dynamic runtime engine for complete scheduling flexibility. |
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