Service Training
SPECTRO MAXx LMX06
Software Overview
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Spark Analyzer Pro MAXx
• A complete new development, based on C# and .NET
Framework
• Operating System Windows 7 Professional
• Without fee required licences
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Overview
• Easy Handling (New Platform)
– Separation of Method Development and Routine Measurement
– Application Profiles – Creation Simplified by Wizard
– Simple Navigation
• ICal
• System Diagnosis
• Service
• Service Report
• User and Service Login
• ...
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Routine Measurement and Method Development
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Routine Operation
• Measurement
• Application Profiles
• Toolbar Navigation
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Application Profiles
• Application Profiles
– Manual or Automatic Method Selection (APF)
– Automatic Reproducibility Test
– Grade Search / Grade Verification
– Sample IDs
– Print / Export / Display Settings
– Value Formatting Rules
– Function Keys and Toolbar for Measurement Screen
• Profiles are created using a Wizard
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Method Development
• Creation, Editing, Viewing of
Method Data
• Calibration Measurements
• Usability
– Topic Navigation
– Docking Windows
– Highlight Changes in Yellow
– Calibration Spectra included in
Methods
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Overview
• Easy Handling (New Platform)
• ICal
– Primary Reference and Sample Replacement Recording, Master-Slave
ICalization (Method Development)
– ICalization (Routine Measurement)
• System Diagnosis
• Service
• Service Report
• User and Service Login
• ...
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Master-Slave ICalization
• ICal Considers Three Components
– Instrument Differences
– Charge Differences of the Sample
– Time Shifts
• The Shift Resulting from the
Instrument Switch compared to the
Reference is by far the largest
Difference
• The Master-Slave ICalization
Eliminates Errors Resulting from
Inst and Charge
SpecInstrument(Charge_x, t) = SpecReference(Charge0, t0) + Inst + Charge + Time
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Overview
• Easy Handling (New Platform)
• ICal
• System Diagnosis
– Instrument Status in all views
– Extensive event logging
– Diagnostics view in the Routine Measurement
• Service
• Service Report
• User and Service Login
• ...
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System Diagnosis (Method Development)
• Instrument status and optics
temperatures in the status bar
• Service Tools dialog for Firmware
Diagnostics (DMB)
• Constant Light Test
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System Diagnosis (Routine Measurement)
• Status indicator in the status bar
• Quick access to the Diagnosis
View
• Extended component information
• Encountered errors in the
message table
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Overview
• Easy Handling (New Platform)
• ICal
• System Diagnosis
• Service
– Test of valves functionality
– Devices and Firmware access
• Service Report
• User and Service Login
• ...
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Service
• Manual I/O control (Shutter, Mask,
Const-Flow, Flush)
• Access to the Firmware Diagnostics
Tools (DMB) – only with Service Token
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Overview
• Easy Handling (New Platform)
• ICal
• System Diagnosis
• Service
• Service Report
– Status Monitor
– Automatic creation of the “Service Report”
• User and Service Login
• ...
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Service Report
• Instrument Data and Configuration
• Firmware and Software Versions
• Current component states
• The “Service Report” contains the
presented information and
preselected files (status, logbooks,
configurations)
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Overview
• Easy Handling (New Platform)
• ICal
• System Diagnosis
• Service
• Service Report
• User and Service Login
– User Management
– New flexible Service Token concept
• ...
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Service and User Login
• Different authorization mechanisms
for SPECTRO Service and Users
– Service Token
– User Management
• User Management
– Can be deactivated
– Flexible User’s Permission Roles
(Administrator, Full, Routine and Basic)
– Password security (format, limited
validity time and repetition count)
– Access security (auto-logoff, max. failed
login tries)
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Overview
• Easy Handling (New Platform)
• ICal
• System Diagnosis
• Service
• Service Report
• User Management
• ... (there is even more)
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Overview (Continued)
• Spectra Viewer Pro
– ICal configuration
– Spectra examination
• Sample Result Manager
– Results overview and details
– Print, export
– Filtering, sorting, grouping
– Graphical results summary
• Sample Result Conversion Tool
– SPECTRO XML to 4.4 format
– File based
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