Agilent and Shimadzu Collaborate on Chromatography Instrument Control
Agilent Technologies, Inc. and Shimadzu Corp. on Aug. 21 announced the release of gas chromatography (GC) instrument control for their respective Chromatography Data Systems (CDS). This gives customers in analytical laboratories more freedom of choice when selecting a chromatography data system.
Agilent has released drivers for Shimadzu GC-2010, GC-2010 Plus and GC-2014 integrating to Agilent’s OpenLAB CDS, and Shimadzu has released drivers to control Agilent 6890, 6850, 7820 and 7890 GC instruments in Shimadzu’s LabSolutions. These releases are the result of the joint collaboration — employing RapidControl (RC.NET) instrument drivers — announced in May 2013 to preserve customers’ investments in workflows and operating procedures.