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System Control

The ChromLab™ System Control window is the main interface to the NGC™

chromatography system instrument. This interface also appears on the instrument

touch screen. System Control settings enable you to perform a manual run, monitor

and control a method run, verify the device plumbing with the Point-to-Plumb™

feature, control and calibrate the system, and map two or more valves of the same

type on your instrument to their position in the fluidic scheme.

In the Home window, you can access the System Control window by selecting the

System Control tab.

System Control Window

The System Control window displays a chromatogram viewer and a graphical fluidic

scheme. The chromatogram is a time-, volume-, or column volume-based view of

the run data acquired from the instrument. The fluidic scheme is a real-time view of

the instrument status and flow.

For enhanced viewing, you can maximize the chromatogram or the fluidic scheme

using the Expand buttons on the right side of the window. This is especially useful

for touch screen viewing.

The fluidic scheme graphically depicts the flow between modules and how the

system is configured and plumbed for an experiment. Each module’s real-time

status appears next to its image. For manual runs, a list of executed commands

appears in the Run Log pane. In method mode, phases and steps of the method

being run appear in their respective tabs, along with controls to stop or pause the

run and hold the step. The Run Queue pane lists all the runs that are ready to be

started. The Run Queue pane is accessible in both manual and method modes.