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Maintenance Procedures
ORACLE Settings
The ORACLE system comes equipped with a number of adjustable settings to optimize the user experience as
well as settings that pertain to sample analyses and system functionality. Within the Settings folder, there are two
sections that are available to Basic and Administrator users: Sample and System There are an additional three
settings that are only available to Administrators: Backup, Tools and Event Viewer
Sample
The sample settings are in place to provide the user with various options during the run as well as adjust certain
testing parameters to optimize the ORACLE analysis for specific sample types. While certain settings are applied
system-wide, others are specific to certain samples as indicated.
• Sample Tags - Sample tags can be added to individual tests as a way to further identify and group certain
samples being analyzed. This is especially useful on the sample results screen, where grouping samples
by product type may be desired.
• Auto Optimize - A system wide internal process where the ORACLE will automatically determine if a sample
contains low levels of fat, and optimize the signal to those levels. This will increase analysis time by
approximately 1.5 minutes and has shown to increase repeatability and accuracy for certain samples.
• High Temperature Mode - Some samples will require a higher temperature for optimal analysis. Only
activate High Temperature Mode if instructed by a CEM specialist.
• Fat Dry - This will calculate the % Fat based on the sample mass after drying, rather than the initial weight.
• LIMS output - This can be activated to send data to an external LIMS database. Data will be sent through
the ORACLE in the High Throughput configuration. For users with a SMART 6 connected to the ORACLE,
LIMS output should be handled by the SMART.
• QuikPrep conditioning time - For high throughput users, this will be the length of time the sample sits in
the QuikPrep heater before beginning analysis in the ORACLE.
NOTE
This should be set to “0” when paired with the SMART 6 as QuikPrep is set through SMART 6 method
development parameters.
• QuikPrep conditioning temperature - This will set the temperature a sample is heated at while in the
QuikPrep heater. For optimizing both time and temperature of the QuikPrep, please consult the CEM
Process Applications team.
