improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article is an orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . july 2016 this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . july 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message aspex corporation type publicly traded purchased by fei company 1 9 2012 industry scientific and technical instruments founded 1992 headquarters delmont pennsylvania united states area served global key people harry shimp ceo greg ott president products scanning electron microscope website 1 aspex corporation originally founded in 1992 is a supplier of electron microscopy tools to researchers developers and manufacturers working on process control through automated scanning electron microscope and energy dispersive x ray spectroscopy . aspex specializes in the manufacturing integrated energy dispersive x ray spectroscopy and electron microscope . the company develops automated algorithms for routine production monitoring and control . aspex s microanalysis solutions are seen in a wide range of production environments including critical cleanliness microcontamination analysis product purity contamination diagnostics predictive maintenance and other statistical process control initiatives . 1 aspex instruments are typically more industrialized then standard sem equipment . you will typically find them installed in non traditional locations like steel mills and automotive assembly lines . the most common usage revolves around automated feature analysis for particle characterization . contents 1 market divisions 2 locations 3 history 4 competitors 5 references market divisions edit steel which includes a broad range of steel producers and universities interested improving the production process through non metallic inclusions content control . 2 pharmaceuticals which includes developers and manufacturers of pharmaceutical products medical devices and new drug delivery tools . 3 forensics which includes institutes universities crime labs conducting various trace evidence applications and gun shot residue analysis . military which customized field deployable units to monitor jet engine wear debris and predictive maintenance on military aircraft . automotive which includes automotive suppliers and producers interested in characterizing the parts cleaning practices and the critical cleanliness of components and assemblies . locations edit aspex corporation maintains research and development and sales operations in delmont pennsylvania . history edit the origins of aspex corporation date back to 1992 formally a division of rj lee group inc. where developers recognized the limitations and costs associated with traditional scanning electron microscopy sem . as a result the company developed and introduced the world s first personalized sem or psem . the timing of the introduction coincided with a number of important trends including increased emphasis on materials characterization the outsourcing of r & d applications to service laboratories and the quality revolution of the 1990s . since then aspex has continued to develop various industrialized sems for quality and process control purposes . as of january 9 2012 fei company purchased aspex from their privately held venture capitalists . after one year of operating under the name aspex an fei company the stand alone entity of aspex was absorbed by fei and the electron microscopes produced in the delmont pennsylvania facility are now grouped with the fei offerings under the newly created aspex product group . 4 although aspex is not operating as a stand alone business entity the three product lines express explorer and extreme are still available for purchase with their automated software . this enables the user to engage the sem with edx if equipped to automatically scan an area of interest about a sample and collect particulate information . such information includes morphology thumbnail image chemistry if edx is equipped 5 competitors edit tescan carl zeiss nts gmbh phenom world b.v. hitachi jeol inc. semtech solutions inc. references edit fred schamber and kai van beek a different kind of microscopy microscopy today january 2007 . timothy j. drake et al. development of an high throughput inclusion analyzer for process control and optimization aistech proceedings may 2008 . david castaldo identification of foreign particles below 10 microns key to inhaled drug quality pharmaceutical processing may 2004 . http www.fei.com aspex product group http www.fei.com industrial manufacturing wear debris characterization retrieved from https 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