Case Studies

Observability Platform

The Observability Platform interface, showing live temperature, pressure and MFC readings on a single screen

These control units were built for research. Functional, but very limited. The brief was to modernize them without replacing the underlying hardware, and give operators a faster read on the whole system.

We built custom hardware to multiplex 50 thermocouple readings into a single modern interface showing temperatures, pressures, MFC readings, and heater status at once. Previously each reading could only be checked one at a time on the analog controllers. A manual, sequential process became a real-time heads-up display.

Custom Control System

The D.U.C.K. software was integrated into catalysis research units to provide full system data collection and control using 'off the shelf' I/O hardware.

We reduced the CapEx costs of the research units by 90% and de-risked their supply chain by using our framework.

The system includes temperature sensing and control, flow rate control through mass flow controllers, pressure readings, and valve actuation. The system can be interacted with through a full custom user interface including data display, graphing, and data export.