Thermo Fisher Scientific has released a software module that enables high-precision and automated analysis of precious metals and high-concentration elements.
Thermo Scientific's Iteva Precision software integrates with the Thermo Scientific Icap 6000 series of inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometers (ICP-OES) to deliver analytical results.
Designed for the metallurgy industry, the module is claimed to enhance the Thermo Scientific Iteva software by delivering a simple workflow for high-precision analysis, with real-time data processing using the bracketing standards approach.
According to Thermo Scientific, ICP-OES is a popular elemental analysis technique due to its rapid, robust and multi-element capabilities.
It can, however, be challenging to analyse elements in samples of high financial value, or with analytes at high-percentage concentrations on a daily basis.
The Iteva Precision software module is designed to meet this challenge by using bracketing algorithms (as stipulated by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) for data processing) to generate high-quality ISO-compliant data in real-time.
Thermo Scientific claims that Iteva's automated data processing capability makes external calculations unnecessary and eliminates the potential for human transcription errors associated with performing manual off-line calculations.
The software module is also able to perform required post-run data reprocessing without re-analysing samples, thus accelerating workflows and conserving high-value samples.
Multi-language support is offered, including English, German, French, Chinese, Japanese and Russian.