Connected Productivity in the Materials Lab: ZEISS ZEN core: Your Software Suite for Connected Microscopy—from the Materials Lab to Production

ZEISS ZEN core is a powerful software suite for microscopy imaging, automated control of motorized ZEISS microscopes, and multi-modal workflows in material

laboratory environments. Use ZEN core to handle routine tasks on a wide range of ZEISS microscope and camera systems. While extracting the highest technical performance from your microscopes, ZEN core provides access to every parameter and function you might wish to optimize through an intuitive and configurable graphical interface. Create task-specific workbenches that show only the r equired microscope controls on the screen. Combine these workbenches to create dedicated jobs that assist your operators through a defined flow of c onsecutive tasks, to ensure data repeatability in a multi-user environment. ZEN core helps you to make your lab even more productive. With workflow and infrastructure solutions that connect data from different microscopes, ZEN core delivers more meaningful information in the form of correlated multiscale and / or multi-modal characterization data. And thanks to its database connectivity features, you keep your valuable data together across instruments, laboratories, and locations.

Image. Analyze. Connect.

Easy to Configure. Easy to Use.

ZEN core gives you the benefit of an adaptive user interface tailored to the needs of industrial and research environments. The easy-to-follow GUI configuration accommodates tasks of all kinds and any complexity. ZEN core also offers you configurable user management, so you can specify users and user roles. Whatever their level of experience, operators will learn the software quickly. Using the ZEISS Word Add-In lets you easily create user configured report templates in MS Word®. The reporting functionality exports reports to various file formats including PDF or DOCX.

Advanced Imaging and Automated Analysis

ZEN core is the command center for automated imaging and analysis functions on compound light microscopes. By using built-in automated image acquisition routines, such as HDR or Best Image, you benefit from the consistency of an advanced and repeatable workflow. ZEN core provides automated image segmentation based on machine learning algorithms, as well as analysis functionality such as phase analysis or particle counting. Application-specific modules enhance your microscope to answer typical questions about the material structure in research and quality control.

Infrastructure Solution for the Connected Laboratory 

ZEN core provides the infrastructure for connected laboratory environments, linking all your ZEISS imaging and microscope solutions to a single, familiar GUI. ZEN core is also the interface to the ZEISS Axiocam camera portfolio, safeguarding an open connected laboratory architecture for 3rd party solutions. ZEN core bridges different forms of light and electron microscopy, improving productivity and multi-modal data integrity. Data management and database connectivity features help you to keep your valuable analysis data together across instruments, laboratories, and locations.