Flow Injection Analysis Instrument Control Software

FIAlab for Windows Software

FIAlab for Windows 5.0 software is specifically designed to control the FIAlab series instruments. Several years were spent writing and testing this software to meet the stringent requirements of flow injection analysis. Customer response tells us these requirements have been more than met, yet the software remains easy to learn, and versatile enough for use in fields outside standard FIA and SIA, such as Mass Spectrometry, FT-IR, Fluorescence Microscopy, Flow Fluorescence, Electrochemistry, and Chemical Sensor Technology. FIAlab for Windows is also ideal for online monitoring and process control applications.

FIAlab for Windows Software Demonstration: Format 1: Flash Format 2: Exe File

Key features include:

Automatic calibration curve generation, automatic dilution of standards, quality control samples, periodic calibration curve regeneration. Automatic compensation for response drift (e.g., caused from degradation of a Cadmium column over the coarse of a Nitrate run).

Various peak characterization functions such as peak height, and area under curve, slope.

Powerful 2-D and 3-D data plotting (including: bar, line, scatter, and surface plots), merging and superposition of response curves generated at different experimental runs, ready for presentation or transfer into other programs such as MS Power Point

Automated report generation and automated emailing capabilities

Reports can be automatically exported to MS Excel

Handles up to four FIAlab systems simultaneously, creating up to four independent calibration curves for multi-channel assays.

Full compatibility with FIAlab automated systems (FIAlab-2500, FIAlab-3000, FIAlab-3500, MicroSIA system), Ocean Optics UV/VIS and VIS/NIR spectrometers, FIAlab's PMT-FL fluorometer, a large assortment of brand and model autosamplers, peristaltic pumps, syringe pumps, multiposition and injection valves, A/D and D/A devices, etc. Please inquire for specifics.

One of the key features of FIAlab for Windows is its user friendly script based programming language. This language consists of a simple BASIC like command structure, with all the available commands presented in a floating list box. The user simply points and clicks the desired command, automatically adding the command to the procedure.

The FIAlab user can either write their own FIA script from scratch, select a prewritten script from the list of templates, or download a script from the online library, to use directly, or to modify, as needed.

Below is an example script for Nitrate/Nitrite measurements on the FIAlab-2500.

' Nitrate/Nitrite Assay

' FIA Template For FIAlab-2500 System
Global Logon ' logon to all components
Sample Description ' load sample description file from autosampler page

' Set Wavelengths
Hardware Settings Wavelength 1 (nm) 540
Hardware Settings Wavelength 2 (nm) 580
Hardware Settings Wavelength 3 (nm) 620
Hardware Settings Wavelength 4 (nm) 650
Hardware Settings Use Wavelength 4 as Reference

'start pump to prime lines
Injection Valve Sample Load
Peristaltic Pump Clockwise(%) 50
Delay (sec) 30

'Put autosampler in first sample (usually a blank)
Next Sample
Delay (sec) 25

LoopStart (#) 250

   'inject sample, load next sample
   autosampler wash
   Analyte New Sample
   Next Sample
   Injection Valve Sample Inject

   'perform reference scan and start absorbance scans
   Spectrometer Reference Scan
   Spectrometer Absorbance Scanning
   Delay (sec) 23
   Injection Valve Sample Load
   Delay (sec) 5
   Spectrometer Stop Scanning

Loop End

FIAlab for Windows 5.0 is included free with the purchase of each FIAlab system.

Device Driver for FIAlab Line of Instruments

FIAlab Instruments now offers Active X control for FIAlab Instruments. Using this control, the programmer can easily interface with the line of FIAlab instruments from their own software. This control is compatible with Labview, Visual Basic 5.0/6.0/.net, MSVC++ 5.0/6.0/.net, and most other products that supports Active X technology. Just drop the control into your project and send commands as easily as "SyringeInitialize=true". The FIAlabX Active X control is available free with the purchase of any of the FIAlab line of instruments (as is our standard "FIAlab for Windows" software).

Active X Control Software for Analyses

Our Partners, Newcastle Scientific, offer an ActiveX based numerical library which includes easy to call functions for Linear and Non-Linear Least Squares Fitting, Fast Fourier Transforms, Signal Processing, Kalman Filtering and Numeric Sorting. Each order also includes a Visual Basic source code example and easy to follow instructions.