The company's systems consist of microscopes, motorized microscope stages, digital cameras, computers, and image analysis software. Applications of its systems include use by steel mills to scan samples and quantify impurity levels so that production engineers and quality control managers can modify production methods to meet industry standards. Other customers come from the pharmaceutical, life science, automobile manufacturing, and metals and materials research industries--clients include General Motors, General Electric, Pfizer, and Dofasco. The company was founded in 1990.