A machine configuration stores details of a coating machine, its sources and their tooling factors, and its monitoring systems. With the run sheet generator, the user can plan the monitoring of a coating design for a given machine configuration. Both optical and crystal monitoring are included as well as advanced features such as dynamic tooling factors and system bandwidth. Monitorlink Monitorlink provides extra software for connecting Runsheet to a deposition controller. A stand-alone program communicates directly with the controller and an extension to Runsheet gives it the ability to generate and edit deposition programs.
Simulator helps to answer that question.
Tolerance assessment in optical coating production is a real problem. There is no good, universal, analytical technique. Errors, a simple tool in the Core Essential Macleod, assumes independent random thickness errors in all layers and can quickly show that independent control demands impossible accuracies in many coatings that can actually be constructed using other methods. In fact, tolerances and effects of errors depend strongly on the control technique. Simulator solves the tolerancing problem by extending the Monte Carlo approach of Errors into a realistic model of the control process.