Automated Clearing House

Step 14. The ITS verifies Customs duties owed and requests duty check from the Accounting Department unless paid by Automated Clearing House (ACH). Duty Checks are sent to the CHB for submission to U.S. Customs within the time frame set by regulations. 

For the water analysis, automation is clearly best achieved with an auto-injector for the mechanical handhng of the samples coupled with on-hne data capture, using the computer to analyse the peak data. Serious consideration was given to employing the very considerable in house automation experience to construct a purpose-built auto-injector. However, in the interests of a speedy implementation of the automatic system, it was decided to purchase a commercially available auto-injector and to concentrate the laboratory s efforts on the area of on-hne data capture. Interfacing the complete system assembly via a data communications network required the development of a special control device (commhox), which allowed the LGC hardware to run unattended hut provided an audible warning in event of a fault condition. 

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