JP4191638B2 - Data processing apparatus and analysis equipment - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a data processing apparatus and an analytical instrument , and more particularly to a data processing apparatus and an analytical instrument suitable for use in an analytical instrument that is being automated.

  In a conventional data processing apparatus, for example, as described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-6823, when an operator performs an operation on the data processing apparatus, the contents noticed by the operator are recorded by voice. It is also known to record and save audio information and measurement data in association with time information.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-6823

  By the way, in recent years, in the field of pharmaceuticals, GLP (Good Laboratory Practice: Guidelines for seeking reliability of test data in drug development (especially safety testing)) and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice: Quality of pharmaceuticals in pharmaceutical manufacturing) In order to ensure the reliability, it is important to ensure the reliability, such as the standard for appropriately managing the production and quality. From the viewpoint of ensuring reliability, it also includes ensuring the reliability of measurement data obtained by an analytical instrument or the like. In addition, it is necessary to ensure the reliability of the operator who operates the analytical instrument.

  From this point of view, what is described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-6823 is merely voice recording as an operator's memo, and the continuity of operation that the same operator continuously operates the analytical instrument, There is a problem that the continuity of the operation cannot be secured because the operator's identification (traceability) as to whether the operation is performed is not considered.

An object of the present invention is to provide a data processing apparatus and an analytical instrument that can easily ensure continuity of operation among reliability of measurement data that has been regarded as important in recent years.

(1) In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an analytical instrument data processing apparatus that performs data processing relating to an analysis apparatus unit, and when an input event occurs when speech uttered by an operator is converted into text information The operation log recording means for recording and saving the operation contents of the analysis instrument section and the analysis instrument data processing apparatus as an event log, and storing the image of the operator when the event log occurs in association with the event log Is provided. With this configuration, continuity of operation can be easily ensured.

  (2) In the above (1), preferably, the operation log recording means further stores voice information issued by the operator in association with the event log.

(3) In the above (2), preferably further comprising a character string conversion means for converting the voice information into a text file, and the operation log recording means includes the text file converted by the character string conversion means, The event log is stored in association with the event log.
(4) In the above (1) or (2), preferably, at least the image input unit or the voice input for inputting the image or the voice arranged in the analyzer unit is configured to be connectable.
(5) Further, in order to achieve the above object, the present invention is an analysis device having a data processing device and an analysis device unit, wherein an input event is generated by converting voice uttered by an operator into text information. The operation contents of the analysis instrument section and the operation contents of the data processing apparatus for the analysis instrument are recorded and saved as an event log, and the operator of the data processing apparatus or the analysis apparatus section when the event log occurs is associated with this event log. The operation log recording means for storing the image of the operator is provided.
With this configuration, continuity of operation can be easily ensured.
(6) In the above (5), preferably, the operation log recording means stores voice information issued by an operator of the data processing apparatus or an operator of the analysis apparatus unit in association with the event log. It is a thing.
(7) In the above (6), preferably, it comprises character string conversion means for converting the voice information into a text file, and the operation log recording means converts the text file converted by the character string conversion means into the event The data is saved in association with the log.
Analytical instrument characterized by that.
(8) In the above (5) or (6), preferably, the image input unit or the voice input unit for inputting the image or the voice is arranged at least in the analyzer unit.
(9) In the above (8), preferably, the image input unit or the voice input unit is arranged at a position for capturing the entire data processing device and analysis device when the event log is generated.

  According to the present invention, continuity of operation can be easily ensured among the reliability of measurement data that has been regarded as important in recent years.

Hereinafter, the configuration of a data processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
First, the configuration of the analysis system including the data processing apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an analysis system including a data processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  The data processing apparatus 10 includes a data processing unit 12, an analytical instrument control unit 14, and an operation log recording unit 16. The data processing unit 12 collects measurement data obtained from the analysis device unit 20. The analytical instrument control unit 14 controls the operation of the analytical device unit 20. Based on the measurement data obtained from the data processing unit 12 and the state of the analytical device unit 20 obtained from the analytical instrument control unit 14, the operation log recording unit 16 performs the analysis operation of the analytical device unit 20 and the data processing unit. The history of 12 operation events is recorded and saved as an operation log.

  Further, as an example of an analytical instrument, an example applied to a high performance liquid chromatograph will be described. The analyzer unit 20 includes a pump 22 for feeding an eluent, an autosampler 24 for introducing a sample into a flow path, A column oven 26 for isolating the column for analysis and a detector 28 for detecting a signal from the column are included.

  The input unit 30 is an input unit such as a keyboard or a mouse, and can input an operation instruction to the data processing unit 12. The display unit 32 is a display, and displays the processing result by the data processing unit 12 and the input information from the input unit 30. The image input unit 40 is a video camera that can obtain a moving image or a still image, or a CCD camera that can obtain a still image. Image information obtained by photographing the operator is stored in the operation log recording unit 16 in association with the operation log. Is done. The voice input unit 50 is a unit that inputs voice spoken by the operator, such as a microphone. The voice input from the voice input unit 50 is converted into character information by the character string conversion unit 52. The converted character information is stored as a text file in association with the operation log.

  An operator of the data processing device 10 and the analysis device unit 20 transmits the data to the analysis device unit 20 via the analysis device control unit 14 of the data processing device 10 and starts measurement. After the measurement is started, the event log generated in the analyzer unit 20 and the event log generated in the data processing unit 10 are stored in the operation log recording unit 16. In addition, the event log spoken by the operator during the operation is stored in the operation log recording unit 16 through the voice input unit 50 and the character string conversion unit 52 in chronological order. The voice information input from the voice input unit 50 is converted into text and saved as an event log by manual input. In addition, while performing an operation using the input unit 30 such as a keyboard or a mouse, an image of the operator photographed by the image input unit 40 is stored in the operation log recording unit 16 in association with the event log. The image input unit 40 is a position on the display which is the display unit 32 of the data processing device 10, a position on the analysis device unit 20, and an image of the entire analysis device including the data processing device 10 and the analysis device unit 20. Is set to a position where it can be recorded, it becomes easy to identify the operator during measurement.

  In this way, by saving the operator image in association with the operation event log, the operator who executed each operation event can be identified, and continuity of data processing operations can be easily obtained. it can.

Next, an example of an operation event in the data processing apparatus according to the present embodiment and a display example of an event log recorded and stored for the operation event will be described with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of an operation procedure of the analytical instrument for explaining an operation event in the data processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of an event log recorded and stored for an operation event in the data processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  In step s10 of FIG. 2, the operator of the analysis system turns on the power of the data processing device 10 and the analysis device 20. Next, in step s20, the operator of the analysis system prepares a reagent, for example, an eluent. The operation so far is a general operation, and it is not necessary to specify the operator in particular, and therefore the event log is not recorded and saved.

  Next, in step s30, the operator of the analysis system logs in by inputting a user name, a password, and the like to the data processing apparatus 10. In order to clarify who logged in at this timing, the operation log recording unit 16 of the data processing apparatus 10 records and saves the operation content as an event log and acquires a still image file by the image input unit 40. To do.

  Here, the contents of the event log for step s30 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 shows a list of event logs to be recorded and saved. As described in the top row, the log items are “event” (event title), “date and time” (event occurrence date and time), “user” (user name who performed the event), “system name” ( Name of the system in which the event occurred: When multiple analysis systems are used, a unique name for identifying each analysis system is assigned to each analysis system), "Content" (operation event ) And “link” (the link destination if there is a link file). This event log is structured in chronological order from the bottom to the top.

  In the operation event log L30 for step s30 in FIG. 2, “login” is recorded in the “event” column, and (2004/01/08 10:00:45) is recorded in the “date and time” column. (HITACHI) and user name are recorded in the “User” field, (LaChrom Elite) and the name of the analysis system are recorded in the “System Name” field, and (User “HITACHI” in the “Content” field) Is logged in), and the link destination of the image file is recorded in the “Link” field. Here, when a login operation is performed from the input unit 30 such as a keyboard, the operation log recording unit 16 recognizes that an event (login) has occurred, acquires the time from a clock inside the data processing device 10, and Acquire the name of the logged-in user, acquire the name of the analysis system, and record and save it internally. In addition, for the event (login), the information (the user “xxxx” has logged in) is stored in advance as information indicating the details of the event (login). Here, the user logs in to the “xxxx” column. By entering the login name of the operator, information (user "HITACHI" has logged in) is created and saved. Further, since the data processing apparatus 10 is defined so as to acquire an image in advance for an event (login), the image input unit 40 is operated to acquire a still image and store it inside. . The image file is saved as an image file format such as a tif file format or a jpg file format. For the saved file, an image file icon linked to the created image file is created in the “link” column. The operator can confirm the acquired image by double-clicking the icon of the image file.

  Next, in step s40, the operator of the analysis system adds the eluent. Since the addition of the eluent is not automatically detected, in this case, the operator depresses a specific key of the input unit 30 such as a keyboard and then adds “eluent A”. ", The addition of the eluent is taken in from the voice input unit 50, converted into text information by the character string conversion unit 52, and stored in the operation log recording unit 16. As shown in the event log L40 in FIG. 3, such a log recorded by the operator's voice is recorded together with the date and time, the user name, and the system name, with “event” (manual input). In the column, the text information converted by the character string converter 52 is recorded. Also at this time, the operator's still image file is acquired in order to confirm the operator who added the eluent.

  Next, in step s50, the operator of the analysis system inputs and selects the column temperature of the high performance liquid chromatograph, the flow rate of the eluent, etc., names the measurement condition “TEST”, and creates a measurement condition file. When saved, the operation log recording unit 16 saves the event log L50 of FIG. 3 at that timing. It is also important who set the measurement conditions, and it is necessary to specify the operator, so a still image file is also acquired here.

  Next, in step s60, when the operator of the analysis system waits for the apparatus to stabilize while checking the fluctuation of the baseline, at that time, the operation log recording unit 16 displays the event of FIG. Save the log L60.

  Next, in step s70, when the operator of the analysis system determines that the baseline has stabilized and starts the baseline check, at that timing, the operation log recording unit 16 displays the event log in FIG. Save L70 (Start Baseline Check). When the baseline check is completed and the baseline is measured, the operation log recording unit 16 stores (baseline check completed) in the event log L75 in FIG. 3 at that timing.

  Next, in step s80, when the operator of the analysis system sets the measurement sample in the rack, the operation log recording unit 16 is based on a signal from a switch or the like provided on the opening / closing lid of the autosampler 24. The event log L80 in FIG. 3 is saved. Also, at this time, the acquisition of the image is started in order to identify the operator who set the sample by starting the acquisition of the image at the timing when the lid of the autosampler is opened and ending the acquisition at the timing when it is closed. . Alternatively, the still image file may be acquired when the autosampler lid is opened.

  Next, in step s90, when the operator of the analysis system creates a measurement sequence such as how many μl of which sample is sampled for a plurality of samples arranged in the rack, at that timing, the operation log recording unit 16 The (measurement sequence creation) of the event log L90 of FIG. 3 is saved.

  Next, when the operator of the analysis system starts sequence measurement in step s100, the operation log recording unit 16 stores (measurement sequence start) of the event log L100 in FIG. 3 at that timing.

  When a sequence measurement is started, the measurement takes a certain amount of time. During this time, the operator may leave the analysis system and perform other tasks. In such a case, in order to prevent others from changing the conditions of the analysis system, it is possible to lock the analysis system by entering a password or the like. Therefore, in step s120, when the operator of the analysis system executes a process for locking the data processing device 10, at that timing, the operation log recording unit 16 displays the event log L110 in FIG. Save Start).

  Next, when the operator of the analysis system releases the lock of the data processing device 10 in step s120, at that timing, the operation log recording unit 16 displays the event log L120 of FIG. 3 (unlocking the data processing device). Save. When the lock is released, the still image file of the operator is acquired in order to confirm that the original operator has released the lock.

  Next, in step s130, when the operator of the analysis system sets a new additional sample B or the like, for example, the operator depresses a specific key of the input unit 30 such as a keyboard and then “ "The measurement sample B has been added to the rack", the fact that the sample has been added is captured from the voice input unit 50, converted into text information by the character string conversion unit 52, and then the operation log recording unit 16 Is stored as an event log L130. Also at this time, the still image file of the operator is acquired in the sense of confirming the operator who added the sample B.

  Next, when the sequence measurement is completed in step s140, the operation log recording unit 16 stores (sequence measurement end) in the event log L140 of FIG. 3 at that timing.

  Next, in step s150, when the operator changes the baseline setting and recalculates the area of the chromatogram, the operation log recording unit 16 at the timing of the event log L150 in FIG. Save recalculation execution). Also at this time, the still image file of the operator is acquired in the sense of specifying the operator who executed the recalculation.

  Next, in step s160, when the operator of the analysis system logs off from the analysis system, the operation log recording unit 16 stores (log off) the event log L160 in FIG. 3 at that timing. Also at this time, the still image file of the operator is acquired in order to confirm the operator who has logged off.

  Next, in step s170, the operator of the analysis system turns off the power of the data processing apparatus 10 and the analysis apparatus 20, and the series of operations is completed.

  As described above, in this embodiment, the operation log is recorded and saved as an event log according to an event that occurs in a series of operation procedures, so that the same operator continues the analysis instrument. It is possible to ensure the continuity of operation.

  In addition, at the same time as recording and saving the operation log, the operator's still image is acquired and saved at the timing when the operator is desired to be identified, so it is easy to identify the operator who has operated (traceability). It can be secured.

  Furthermore, the voice information is also converted into a character string and then saved as text information in the event log, so that the operation information can be easily saved even if the hand cannot be released during an analysis operation or the like. . At this time, by saving the text information, it is possible to easily confirm the operation contents together with other event logs when the operation content is confirmed later.

  As a method for converting voice information into a character string, in addition to a method for converting only voice information when an operator performs key operation into a character string, voice information input from the voice input unit 50 is automatically used. It may be converted into a text file.

  The image file acquisition timing can be arbitrarily set according to the operation of the apparatus main body and the contents of the event log, so that the operation event log can be created while automatically acquiring the image file. All image files can be saved as a video between logging in to the data processing device and logging out. However, considering the file capacity at the time of saving, only still images are acquired only for necessary events. can do. Further, depending on the file capacity, it can be automatically compressed using a compression tool and stored in association with the operation log file.

Next, the external configuration of the analysis system including the data processing apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing an external configuration of an analysis system including a data processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention. The same reference numerals as those in FIG. 1 indicate the same parts.

  A display unit 32 such as a display is disposed on the upper part of the data processing apparatus 10, and an input unit 30 such as a keyboard is disposed in front of the display unit 32. The input unit 30 includes a mouse and the like. A first video camera 40 </ b> A that is an image input unit and a microphone 50 </ b> A that is an audio input unit are arranged on the top of the display unit 32. As described above, by disposing the video camera 40A and the microphone 50A on the upper portion of the display unit 32, it is possible to easily obtain an image and sound of an operator who operates the data processing apparatus 10. In addition, a second video camera 40B as an image input unit is also arranged on the upper part of the analyzer unit 20. As described above, by disposing the video camera 40B also on the upper part of the analyzer unit 20, it is possible to easily obtain an image of an operator who adds an eluent or a sample to the analyzer unit 20. it can. Note that a microphone as a voice input unit may be disposed on the upper part of the analyzer unit 20.

  It should be noted that the microphone and video camera B27 can be arranged at a position where the entire liquid chromatograph and data processing apparatus as the analyzer unit can be copied.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, an operation performed by the operator on the data processing apparatus can be stored as an image in association with a series of operation logs.

  In addition, since there is no need to manually perform re-input or correlation with the log after the operation, the analysis work efficiency can be improved.

In addition, by automatically saving the operator as a still image at the required event, the continuity of the actual data processing operator is ensured among the reliability of measurement data that has been regarded as important in recent years. Thus, the reliability of the measurement data can be improved.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the analysis system containing the data processor by one Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the operation procedure of the analyzer for demonstrating the operation event in the data processor by one Embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing of the event log recorded and preserve | saved with respect to the operation event in the data processor by one Embodiment of this invention. 1 is a perspective view showing an external configuration of an analysis system including a data processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Data processing apparatus 12 ... Data processing part 14 ... Analytical instrument control part 16 ... Operation log part 20 ... Analysis apparatus part 22 ... Pump 24 ... Autosampler 26 ... Column oven 28 ... Detector 30 ... Input part 32 ... Display part 40 ... image input unit 50 ... voice input unit 52 ... character string conversion unit

Claims (9)

A data processing device for an analytical instrument that performs data processing related to an analytical device section,
Recorded and saved as an event log the operation contents of the analytical instrument unit and the operation contents of the data processing device for the analytical instrument at the time of the occurrence of the input event generated by converting the voice uttered by the operator into text information, and associated with this event log, An analytical instrument data processing apparatus comprising operation log recording means for storing an image of an operator when the event log is generated. The data processing apparatus for an analytical instrument according to claim 1,
The data processing apparatus for an analytical instrument, wherein the operation log recording means stores voice information issued by the operator in association with the event log. The data processing apparatus for an analytical instrument according to claim 2,
Character string conversion means for converting the voice information into a text file,
The analytical instrument data processing apparatus, wherein the operation log recording unit stores the text file converted by the character string conversion unit in association with the event log. In the analytical instrument data processing device according to claim 1 or 2,
A data processing apparatus for an analytical instrument, comprising at least an image input unit or a voice input unit for inputting the image or voice arranged in the analyzer unit. An analytical instrument having a data processing device and an analytical device section,
Recording and storing the operation content of the analytical instrument unit and the operation content of the data processing device for the analytical instrument at the time of the occurrence of the input event generated by converting the voice uttered by the operator into text information, and associating with this event log, An analysis instrument comprising operation log recording means for storing an image of an operator of a data processing apparatus or an operator of an analysis apparatus unit when the event log is generated. The analytical instrument according to claim 5,
The operation log recording means stores audio information issued by an operator of the data processing apparatus or an operator of an analysis apparatus unit in association with the event log. The analytical instrument according to claim 6,
Character string conversion means for converting the voice information into a text file,
The analysis device characterized in that the operation log recording means stores the text file converted by the character string conversion means in association with the event log. In the analytical instrument according to claim 5 or 6,
An analysis instrument characterized in that the image input unit or the voice input unit for inputting the image or the sound is arranged at least in the analysis device unit. The analytical instrument according to claim 8,
The analysis apparatus, wherein the image input unit or the voice input unit is arranged at a position where the entire data processing device and the analysis device at the time of the event log generation are captured.

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