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11 - Getting Started - Setting Up a New Script or Process
Setting Up a Process in Freedom EVOware Plus
sure that the Te-MagS is reserved and thus immediately available for use when
the pipetting operation has finished:
Fig. 11-4 Reserving a device
Freedom EVOware Plus lets you run several processes in parallel. If you don’t
reserve the Te-MagS, it may be occupied by another process when the first
process wants to use it. The first process will then have to wait until it becomes
free again. Depending on your application or experiment, the waiting may be
inacceptable.
11.5.9 Adding On-the-fly Actions
Some devices require the use of the RoMa (plate robot) to carry out their function.
A typical example of this is the Symbol LS-1220 barcode scanner which is rigidly
fixed to the instrument's deck and cannot move towards the labware to scan it.
Instead, the RoMa is used to move the labware past the barcode scanner “on-thefly”
while carrying out something else, for example when moving the labware from
one carrier to another. The barcode scanner is then instructed to perform a read
operation when the RoMa presents the labware. Such devices are called on-thefly
devices.
Add an on-the-fly device to your process by dragging it from the Control Bar onto
the line which links two process steps. The corresponding actions will then be
executed when the labware moves between the two process steps.
For example, If you want to read the barcodes of your labware items as they move
from the washer to the pipetting station, drag the Barcode Scanner device onto
the line which links these two process steps.
See Fig. 5-11 “Process Editor showing an example process”, 5-17.
11.5.10 Saving the Process
Save the process you have created by clicking Save in the toolbar or by choosing
Save from the File menu. Then enter a name for the process in the Save File
dialog box or select an existing process which you want to overwrite and click the
green arrow. You can also save the process as a process template by choosing
Save As from the File menu and clicking the Template button in the Save File
dialog box.
11.5.11 Running the Process
See 12.2 “Running and Optimizing a Process (Freedom EVOware Plus)”, 12-5.
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