Zeiss revolutionising customised automation in microscopy
09/03/2021
Zeiss has introduced Zeiss Solutions Lab, an innovative service that provides its customers with rapid access to new applications for their microscopy systems or correlative microscopy suites. Zeiss Solutions Lab enables customers to select, or to drive demand for, module-based workflows built on Zeiss software packages for a wide variety of requirements specific to their research needs.Analytical requirements can vary widely across applications and are traditionally difficult to address in a heterogeneous marketplace. Developed for agile response, a fast-acting team and an intelligent software toolkit are able to rapidly implement specialised solutions that enhance microscope functionality, provide specific measurement or analysis capabilities, or automate complicated workflows, unique to the customer requirements. By providing a rapid response approach, the Zeiss rapid applications development team supports a new market-driven path to long-term development.
Solutions developed by the Zeiss Solutions Lab team enable customers to be efficient with their advanced optical or electron microscopy, focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM) or X-ray microscopes from day one, allowing them to realise the value of their investments far earlier. They also provide access to advanced technology, enabling applications that may not have previously existed or been practical to achieve. This provides built-in flexibility and longevity for what can be a significant capital equipment investment for higher-end systems, making them more accessible and viable in a routine workstream.
Dr Bernhard Schwarz, Head of Zeiss Software at Zeiss Research Microscopy Solutions, said: “The Zeiss Solutions Lab is a unique response in the world of microscopy to the rapidly changing requirements of our customers, in both the industrial and academic research sectors, for solutions that focus on their immediate needs for micro- to nanoscale characterisation of new or advanced materials or functionality. These solutions also make advanced microscopy systems easy to use for a wide variety of skillsets.”
To date, solutions have been created in the fields of geoscience, mining, metallurgy, additive manufacturing and semiconductor research and development (R&D). Examples of just some of the unique applications include pore and particle analysis for both additive manufacturing and mining, hard phase analysis for cast iron, profilometry solutions for thin films, permeability prediction using thin sections, measurement of dendrite arms and 3D surface exposure analysis.
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