Unified Control of Sample Environment Our equipments are controlled with IGOR Pro, an extraordinarily powerful and extensible scientific graphing, data analysis, image processing and programming software tool for scientists and engineers. IGOR Pro is developed by WaveMetrics for Mac OS and Windows. If we had to justify the reasons for which we use IGOR, we would simply list the following points:
- Very responsive company: clarifications, new features, and the occasional bug extermination
- Automatic log-book management, command line and powerful GUI,
- Programming language allows automation,
- Efficient storage of large data sets (unlike spreadsheets),
- Works well with 'missing' data (explicit use of NaN),
- Fast display of huge data sets (a million points in under a second),
- Steep learning curve, but useful work can be done within a day or so,
- Excellent documentation (paper, on-line and contextual),
- Cross-platform compatibility,
- Not costing a fortune.
We have developed several routines and plugins for monitoring and controlling our equipments. You can download them for free. For more information, please contact sane(at)ill.fr.
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| Liquid Helium Distribution The distribution to about 40 instruments and laboratories of liquid helium dewars and the recovery of about 12 tons of helium gas require a rigorous day-to-day management. In order to ease this work and allow a collaborative management, we use a mobile data terminal.
This terminal is a simple In-House application developed with the iPhone SDK. It allows us to: - Determine the quantity of liquid helium refilled,
- Determine the quantity of liquid helium used on an instrument,
- Determine the quantity of helium gas recovered on an instrument,
- Determine how much is sent to a liquefier
- Determine how much helium gas is stored in our racks.
The data are entered by the staff and uploaded to a server. An application downloads these data, calculates the losses and produces automatically the reports. For more information, please contact sane(at)ill.fr. |
