Technologies used at FOSS
FOSS is a high-tech company. This is reflected in the high proportion of employees with a top-level scientific or technical background, and in the fact that more than 10 % of FOSS’ turnover is invested in product innovation and development.
As a business-to-business provider of dedicated analytical technology to other industries, FOSS naturally has in-depth competence in scientific disciplines such as spectroscopy, X-ray technology and multivariate data analysis. However, FOSS never pursues such science fields in their own right but always with the aim of providing analytical solutions, which at the same time are state-of-the-art yet easy to operate even for un-skilled users. FOSS’ unique skills, therefore, lie in amalgamating widely different technological disciplines to form such integrated units. Schematically, typical elements of the analytical solutions include:
- An integrated sample presentation unit
- A high-performance analytical device (such as a spectrometer)
- Advanced mathematics for sophisticated, multi-layered data processing
- Embedded and PC-based software to enable system integration and interfacing with the operator
- Internet-based communication software for remote surveillance and support by experts
- Application support and training
Reliable solutions
As provider of analytical technologies to the world’s very biggest companies within the fields of agriculture, food production, and pharmaceutics, FOSS is obliged to ensure the analytical reliability of its solutions in all aspects: Naturally, each individual instrument must perform in its own right. On a higher level it is, however, equally important that instruments forming a population, whether used for global production control or for national payment systems, perform uniformly and consistently across all of the units. And it is essential that FOSS provides solutions allowing a few centrally based experts to supervise such sophisticated instrument networks in a cost- and time-efficient manner. The ultimate synthesis of FOSS’ technological is exactly to provide such overall systems of reliable analytical solutions.
To learn more about FOSS’ individual instruments please use the ‘Solution Finder’ tool and search by technology.