Minerva allows the user to control Craic microspectrophotometers to acquire and analyse high quality ultraviolet, colour and NIR spectra of samples by absorbance, reflectance or fluorescence
Craic Technologies, a manufacturer of UV-visible-NIR microspectrometers, has released the newest version of its Minerva microspectroscopy software package.
This software is designed to collect, analyse and process microspectra from Craic microspectrophotometers.
Minerva represents a major step forward in that it is designed for both industrial processes and scientific research.
It is simple to use yet contains many advanced spectroscopic control and analysis features, says the company.
"Our customers want to use microspectroscopy in production environments for rapid quality control of their products.
"This new version of Minerva was developed in response to customer requests for a flexible package to control Craic microspectrophotometers situated on the manufacturing floor as well as those in the R+D laboratory.
"Two levels of access are provided to address both of these functions while maintaining the powerful analytical features of the previous versions of Minerva" says Paul Martin, president.
Minerva combines this advanced software package with the sophisticated hardware and optics of Craic UV-visible-NIR range microspectrometers.
Designed for the production environment as well as the laboratory, it incorporates a number sophisticated tools for analysing spectra.
It also incorporates two modes of operation: a production level with recipe driven instrument control and data analysis in addition to a password protected engineering mode for creating those recipes and for advanced research.
