Nevron Diagram component fulfilled all our use case requirements and much more. As weworked with the trial version, we were very impressed by the clear C# API

MKS, ION Systems® is the leader in ionization and monitoring products for manyelectronics (semiconductor, HDD, medical device, life sciences, etc) and industrial
markets. MKS, ION Systems® products provide turnkey solutions to monitor, analyze, andcontrol electrostatic charge and discharge. This is critical for environments where products
are sensitive to electrostatic charge, discharge, particle attraction, electromagneticinterference and other ESD-related issues. In clean rooms and sensitive manufacturing
facilities, our ionizers and monitoring products detect and help improve the processenvironment by detecting field (voltage), electrostatic attraction (ESA), electromagnetic
interference (EMI) caused by ESD, radio frequency interference (RFI) and ground noise.
Project Industry: Flat-panel fabrication
Project Type: Desktop application

AreaMonitor was developed to overcome a setup and monitoring problem for ceilingemitter ionizers. Large fabrication installations could have hundreds of ionizers distributed
in several buildings. These ionizers need continuous monitoring -- a malfunction could
cost tens of thousands of dollars in a very short period.
The ionizers have individual addresses on their communication network. It is easy for themonitoring software to detect the address of a malfunctioning ionizer. However, there isno inherent knowledge of the physical location. When an ionizer malfunctions, the clock
begins ticking.
Early installations required the setup engineer to manually draw layouts of the ionizer
locations, and note the electronic addresses for each physical position. The process waslong, tedious, and error-prone. When the monitoring software indicated an ionizer inalarm, the support engineer had to find the drawings, and then sort through them to findthe location of the failing ionizer, all under the pressure of the falling yields of the fab.
The Nevron Diagram component solved this problem. Now the physical locations of theionizers are part of the monitor software. The failing ionizer is highlight in red, and thesupport engineer can quickly go directly to the ionizer location. An added bonus of using
the Nevron Diagram is that it became much easier to diagram the ionizer locations in thefirst place. This shortened the setup time and improved the reliability -- especially when
we were able to add software checks to the diagram inputs.
An added benefit of using the Nevron dotNet Vision suite was the beautiful UI controls. It
was easy to choose a theme which reflected our company brand. The ease of use andthe professional look-and-feel of the GUI made us comfortable in releasing this software tothe customer, instead of reserving it for Ion’s support engineers. This further reduced oursetup costs and allowed the customer more control for the systems it had purchased.

Our experience with Nevron
We initially chose to evaluate Nevron because their Diagram component fulfilled all ouruse case requirements and much more. As we worked with the trial version, we were very
impressed by the clear C# API, the complete functionality, and that everything worked as
we expected. After designing our first project with the Nevron suite, we were mostimpressed with these benefits of using the Nevron suite:

Ease of development -- all the Nevron diagram functionality is demonstrated in acomplete example solution. We spent our first hours with the example matching ourrequirements to the code snippets. Then we worked with all the other features, and chose
additional functionality to expand our offering. One of the most important features was thePan and Zoom control. All the functionality of this high-level control and synchronization
with the main chart was accomplished with just a few lines of code.

Using the Nevron code, we were able to generate a complete mockup of AreaMonitor in
10 days, a small part of the 6 month completion schedule.

Professional appearance and workflow -- as we designed the workflow, we came to thedesign accustomed to the best diagramming programs from schematic capture
applications and presentation software. The Nevron Diagram behavior fit right into ourexpectations, and let us customizes those behaviors to fine-tune a match to our particular
product.
Our screenshot shows the elements which are generated dynamically in Diagram. It waseasy to make them match what the actual components look like, without a performancehit. We can generate and display hundreds of these components within a second on astandard=spec machine.
Reliability -- Nevron diagram uses a very intuitive object model that fit well into the objectoriented architecture of our project. We spent very little time dealing with problems in thecontrol itself -- we could see that the components were well-tested and mature. When we
did have questions, Nevron’s support engineers were quick to respond and very
knowledgeable.

Summary
We are very pleased with our choice of the Nevron dotNet Vision suite and its
performance in AreaMonitor. As our company moves from desktop to web products wesee that Nevron already has the web-based components ready. We are confidentdesigning Nevron into our future Diagram and GUI projects. Nevron Chart control is also
used from the MKS, ION Systems® marketing group and their ION Charging Generator
sales tool.

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