diff --git a/Device/IO/DataFormatUtil.cpp b/Device/IO/DataFormatUtil.cpp
index ca05967f37d41e0f5ecba6e3ee33d8db979f1460..d66d18ee605533f327bd3d546b5ec70e87602c32 100644
--- a/Device/IO/DataFormatUtil.cpp
+++ b/Device/IO/DataFormatUtil.cpp
@@ -23,8 +23,6 @@
 
 namespace {
 
-using createAxisFun = std::function<Scale*(std::istringstream iss)>;
-
 const std::string GzipExtension = ".gz";
 const std::string BzipExtension = ".bz2";
 const std::string IntExtension = ".int";