A Web-Based Instrument Monitoring System
Martin M. Echols, David Keith Smith, David S. Nirschl · JALA Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation · 2004
We present a Web-based system developed at Bristol-Myers Squibb that provides status and queue information for a dispersed group of analytical instruments. Status and queue files maintained by the analytical software on individual instrument computers are copied to a central server, where they are parsed by a custom software application written in Microsoft Visual Basic 6. The parsed information is stored in a database, where it is accessible to custom web server scripts that search, filter, and format the data for display in a Web browser.