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Adapt the machine yourself — and modernize the one you already have
Every experiment is different, and you shouldn’t have to wait on a vendor — or write code — to change the rig. → Reconfigure hardware, recipes and screens yourself, try it offline first, and bring an existing tool under modern control without replacing the chamber.
APS Recipe Editor — author processes as structured, validated recipes; the same project runs against the offline Emulator and the real machine unchanged.
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You Own the Config
What you get
- ▶ Reconfigure the rig yourself — add or move hardware, screens and interlocks in System Builder, no code and no vendor round-trip.
- ▶ Author any recipe — structured .rcpx with loops, variables, conditionals and sub-recipes, validated before it ever runs.
- ▶ Try it offline first — the physics-based Emulator runs your exact config, so you validate a recipe before spending precious chamber time.
- ▶ Upgrade the hardware you already have — the New-from-PLC wizard and MCGS HMI import re-drive your current S7-200 PLC and instruments, turning an aging control box into a clean, recipe-driven system — without replacing the chamber.
- ▶ Own your configuration — a plain-XML project, no lock-in.
What it means for you
Modernize and adapt your own tool on your own schedule — and spend grant money on science, not on control-software rewrites.
- Bring a home-built or legacy machine under modern control without buying a new chamber.
- Change the machine the day your experiment changes.
- Broad device support: S7-200 PLC plus serial, Modbus and SCPI instruments.