Speed at Scale
Analyze entire experiments, not individual samples.
Materials science is moving toward high-throughput experimentation — combinatorial alloy studies, DOE-based process optimization, self-driving laboratories producing dozens of samples per batch. The fabrication side of this pipeline is increasingly automated and fast. The analysis side is not. A DOE with 16 conditions means 16 individual analysis sessions, often spread across days or weeks, with results compiled manually at the end. The experimental feedback loop is gated by how fast a human can process samples one at a time.
Onyx restructures this around experimental campaigns. An entire DOE — 16 conditions, hundreds of EDS maps — is processed in a single batch job. Not over days. Over a lunch break. The output is immediately comparable across conditions: per-sample phase area fractions, composition statistics, particle size distributions, and spatial maps, all organized by experimental variable.
Onyx processes entire experimental campaigns in a single batch job. The data for those 16 conditions is analyzed while the operator moves on to the next task. Experiments that were previously too large to justify — too many samples, too much beam time, too many hours of analyst review — become routine.
Example — Unexpected Finding in Additive Manufacturing Research
A research team characterizing laser powder bed fusion 316L stainless steel runs EDS mapping on every cross-section as routine characterization. Onyx processes the full dataset in a single batch and flags something nobody was looking for: a persistent microsegregation pattern present across every sample, identified by the model’s sub-pixel phase indicators.
The signature turned out to be a fingerprint of non-equilibrium solidification — a phenomenon driven by LPBF’s rapid cooling rates that is absent from conventionally processed 316L. It surfaced because every sample was analyzed, not just a representative few. Spot-checks tell you whether the thing you’re looking for is there. Systematic analysis tells you what’s actually there.