Benefits of PAT can be seen with synTQ-Lite, on a limited budget

synTQ Lite provides a cost-effective entry level PAT Data Management System that is vendor neutral, and can be deployed on any single instrument system. Essentially a restricted-functionality version of the main synTQ product line, synTQ Lite is specifically aimed at instrument OEMs and users wishing to cost-evaluate PAT systems.

Optimal Sales and Marketing Director, Martin Gadsby, says: "PAT is a powerful platform that equips users with the potential to bring a development product to market quicker, at a lower cost of development and then manufacture it faster to a higher quality, yet at lower cost. However, with tight budgets all around at present, the initial justification for a full PAT is sometimes difficult to justify. The launch of synTQ Lite overcomes this problem, by allowing the benefits of PAT to be proven at low cost, with the added advantage of scaleability up to full PAT synTQ FM when the time is right."

Designed for use on a single process, synTQ Lite connects to instruments, multivariate packages (MVA) and control systems, as determined by the user. synTQ is delivered already configured to suit the specific application with the appropriate adaptors and orchestration in place. The installation can be executed by the client, or by Optimal, remotely from its Bristol headquarters, or onsite. Clients opting for the latter option benefit from Optimal's user training option.

synTQ Lite is normally run from a desktop or similar machine and interfaces to the instrument, either via a PAT LAN or via a dedicated connection, and to a Manufacturing LAN (for the other synTQ system interfaces). The system is vendor neutral, and providing the device requiring connection has a communications interface and a known protocol, then synTQ Lite can connect to it.

Fully transferable to synTQ FM

Although designed to run a single unit operation, synTQ Lite can, nevertheless, store multiple instrument and MVA interfaces plus orchestrations (PAT methods), but only one of each can be run at any one time. Moreover, because all models developed within synTQ Lite are fully transferable to synTQ FM, if, in the future, users need to change any of the adaptors to instruments, MVA package or control system, then this is possible, as is the opportunity to add to, or upgrade the orchestration(s) within the system.

Martin Gadsby says: "We originally conceived synTQ Lite as an introductory package for PAT only, a function that it is extremely well specified to fulfil. However, from initial installations of the system, synTQ Lite has proven itself to clients using it in the areas of product development - and even on full production systems."

To find out more about synTQ Lite and synTQ PAT software, visit the website at www.optimal-ltd.co.uk.