Bench supervisor system.

摘要

An analytical system comprises a Bench Supervisor system, which is responsible for coordinating the operations of various hardware instruments in carrying out a bench method or a bench sequence. The Bench Supervisor system communicates with a number of instrument applications (i.e., programs), which applications directly interface with and control the operations of the instruments composing the bench hardware. The bench hardware comprises a number of instruments as well as a transport instrument. In general, the bench hardware comprises a variety of instruments which may be categorized as preparation instruments, analytical instruments, or transport instruments. The Bench Supervisor comprises a Host Services module; a Resource Entry module; a Bench Method Commands module; a Sequence Commands module; a Configuration module; a Sequence Scheduler module; a Resource Allocation module; a Communications module; a Data Base Management module; a Data Base Access Module; and a CP module.