Agilent Technologies and Bruker Corp are to provide customers with more freedom of choice when selecting a chromatography data system for their laboratories.
The companies will exchange information for the development of instrument drivers for their respective gas chromatographs. With the development of these drivers, both companies’ GC systems may be interfaced and controlled by either Agilent’s OpenLAB Chromatography Data System or Bruker’s Compass CDS. This exchange will enable customers to preserve their investments in workflows and increase efficiency in operating procedures.
Later this year, OpenLAB CDS software will be able to support Bruker’s 3000- and 400-series gas chromatographs, including Bruker’s latest SCION 436 and 456 models. Likewise, Compass CDSsoftware drivers will support Agilent’s 5890, 6890, 7890 and similar gas chromatographs.
Both companies plan to make these drivers available by the end of 2014.
