It seems worth mentioning again that our JEOL and Cameca (factory approved) software products can run alongside the JEOL or Cameca OEM applications (usually on separate computers), but connected to the same instrument *simultaneously* along with the OEM applications at the same time.
In the past this was not possible due to the nature of the instrument communications, but since the introduction of TCP/IP networked EPMA instruments starting with the JEOL 8900 and the Cameca SX100, there is essentially no practical limit to the number of computers/applications that can connect to the instrument at the same time. This provides enormous flexibility for both the developer and users.
I remember at the time when we first got this network communication working on an EPMA instrument and it was cool to watch a spectrometer start to move from one computer and even before it finished, start the same spectrometer moving in a different direction from the other computer and the spectrometer would slow down and reverse direction and proceed to completion. Wow I thought. This is going to be fun!
Just for illustration here is a JEOL 8200/8500 showing the JEOL UNIX software and the Probe for EPMA software running simultaneously. This is also true for the JEOL 8230/8530 instruments running the new PC based JEOL software applications.
And here is a Cameca SX100 instrument showing both the Cameca PeakSight software and the Probe for EPMA (and Thermo EDS) software running at the same time:
So the point is, with Probe Software EPMA applications, one gets to keep everything they already have with their instrument, but by making a simple network connection to the existing instrument network, one can open up a new world of analytical possibilities for improving accuracy and precision (and most importantly, laboratory throughput!).
I'm also attaching (please login to see attachments), a PPSX (Power Point Presentation Show) file below that describes some of these improvements that I presented recently. Sorry for the "advertising" nature of this post, but some people aren't aware of these cool networking capabilities of their instruments and we would like to help.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
john
