Innovative Low Cost Laboratory Automation Environment and LabVIEW Reformation Application Case Study

TL;DR

This paper presents a low-cost, LabVIEW-based automation environment that significantly improves system performance and reformation capabilities for legacy laser atomic spectroscopy systems, emphasizing modularity and transferability.

Contribution

It introduces an innovative, open-source automation environment with enhanced features and demonstrates its application to reformation of legacy spectroscopy systems, achieving substantial performance gains.

Findings

System reformation boosted performance by 983%

Environment is 500% better with open source and remote capabilities

Reformation strategies are transferable to other systems

Abstract

In recognition of the catalytic role of instruments, we report on an original, low-cost, robust, LabVIEW-based automation development environment configuration and application to reformation of a legacy laser atomic spectroscopy system. Open source, version and configuration control, full back-up, and remote/distributed capability characteristics make the new environment 500% better. System reformation using reusable type definitions, functional encapsulation, increased modularization, and polymorphism boosted performance 983%. Both the environment configuration and reformation strategies are transferrable to most endeavors.