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Tar­ge­ted Solu­ti­ons Pro­vide a Rapid ROI for Uni­que Cus­to­mer Requirements

ZEISS today intro­du­ces 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.

Agile sys­te­ma­tic to enhance micro­scope functionality

Ana­ly­ti­cal requi­re­ments can vary widely across appli­ca­ti­ons and are tra­di­tio­nally dif­fi­cult to address in a hete­ro­ge­nous mar­ket­place. Deve­lo­ped for agile response, a fast-acting team and intel­li­gent soft­ware tool­kit are able to rapidly imple­ment spe­cia­li­zed 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.

Rapid Return-on-Invest­ment

Solu­ti­ons deve­lo­ped by the ZEISS Solu­ti­ons Lab team enable cus­to­mers to be effi­ci­ent with their advan­ced opti­cal or elec­tron micro­scopy, FIB-SEM, or X‑ray micro­sco­pes from day one, allo­wing them to rea­lize 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 , says, “The 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 cha­rac­te­riza­tion 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 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.

ZEISS Solu­ti­ons Lab: www.zeiss.com/solutions-lab

About ZEISS

ZEISS is an inter­na­tio­nally lea­ding tech­no­logy enter­prise ope­ra­ting in the fields of optics and opto­elec­tro­nics. In the pre­vious fis­cal year, the ZEISS Group gene­ra­ted annual reve­nue tota­ling 6.3 bil­lion euros in its four seg­ments Semi­con­duc­tor Manu­fac­tu­ring Tech­no­logy, Indus­trial Qua­lity & Rese­arch, Medi­cal Tech­no­logy and Con­su­mer Mar­kets (sta­tus: 30 Sep­tem­ber 2020).

For its cus­to­mers, ZEISS deve­lops, pro­du­ces and dis­tri­bu­tes highly inno­va­tive solu­ti­ons for indus­trial metro­logy and qua­lity assu­rance, micro­scopy solu­ti­ons for the life sci­en­ces and mate­ri­als rese­arch, and medi­cal tech­no­logy solu­ti­ons for dia­gno­stics and tre­at­ment in oph­thal­mo­logy and micro­sur­gery. The name ZEISS is also syn­ony­mous with the world’s lea­ding litho­gra­phy optics, which are used by the chip indus­try to manu­fac­ture semi­con­duc­tor com­pon­ents. There is glo­bal demand for trend­set­ting ZEISS brand pro­ducts such as eye­glass len­ses, camera len­ses and binoculars.

With a port­fo­lio ali­gned with future growth areas like digi­ta­liza­tion, health­care and Smart Pro­duc­tion and a strong brand, ZEISS is sha­ping the future of tech­no­logy and con­stantly advan­cing the world of optics and rela­ted fields with its solu­ti­ons. The company’s signi­fi­cant, sus­tainable invest­ments in rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment lay the foun­da­tion for the suc­cess and con­tin­ued expan­sion of ZEISS‹ tech­no­logy and mar­ket lea­der­ship. ZEISS invests 13 per­cent of its reve­nue in rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment – this high level of expen­dit­ure has a long tra­di­tion at ZEISS and is also an invest­ment in the future.

With over 32,000 employees, ZEISS is active glo­bally in almost 50 count­ries with around 30 pro­duc­tion sites, 60 sales and ser­vice com­pa­nies and 27 rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment faci­li­ties. Foun­ded in 1846 in Jena, the com­pany is head­quar­te­red in Ober­ko­chen, Ger­many. The Carl Zeiss Foun­da­tion, one of the lar­gest foun­da­ti­ons in Ger­many com­mit­ted to the pro­mo­tion of sci­ence, is the sole owner of the hol­ding com­pany, Carl Zeiss AG.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion at www.zeiss.com

ZEISS Rese­arch Micro­scopy Solutions

ZEISS Rese­arch Micro­scopy Solu­ti­ons is the world’s only one-stop manu­fac­tu­rer of light, elec­tron, X‑ray and ion micro­scope sys­tems and offers solu­ti­ons for cor­re­la­tive micro­scopy. The port­fo­lio com­pri­ses of pro­ducts and ser­vices for life sci­en­ces, mate­ri­als and indus­trial rese­arch, as well as edu­ca­tion and cli­ni­cal prac­tice. The unit is head­quar­te­red in Jena. Addi­tio­nal pro­duc­tion and deve­lo­p­ment sites are loca­ted in Ober­ko­chen and Munich, as well as in Cam­bourne (UK) and Plea­san­ton (USA). ZEISS Rese­arch Micro­scopy Solu­ti­ons is part of the Indus­trial Qua­lity & Rese­arch segment.

Press Cont­act

Vyb­hav Sinha
ZEISS Rese­arch Micro­scopy Solutions
+49 3641 64–3949
moc.ssiez@ahnis.vahbyv