Repetitive acquisition work on a TEM or SEM ties skilled people to a microscope for hours, doing something the instrument could do on its own. EM Flow Creator (EMFC) is Hitachi's visual scripting software that solves this problem: you build a recipe by arranging blocks on screen rather than writing code, and the microscope runs it.
We recently ran a live webinar on automated electron microscopy, covering how recipes are built, how automation handles real samples that don't behave uniformly, and where it fits into standards-driven work like asbestos analysis and technical cleanliness.
The questions that came in were specific and mostly practical. Here are the answers.