MachineStudio Lens™
AI built for epitaxy — ask questions and get answers, directly from your growth data.
Lens is the AI analysis layer for MachineStudio. Connect your preferred LLM — Claude, ChatGPT, or any OpenAI-compatible model — directly to your running MBE system. Ask about temperatures, correlations, distributions, and trends in plain language. Get answers grounded in real instrument data.
It's worth appreciating what this actually is: a production MBE reactor's source-cell temperatures, queryable by any LLM. Point Claude at your OpenAPI spec and pose your question — it will chain these tools autonomously and answer.
This capability doesn't come at the cost of security. Lens is built on a hardened application security architecture designed for environments where live instrumentation and remote AI access must coexist without compromise. Every data channel is protected by 512-bit encryption, ensuring that all process parameters remain unreadable in transit — even across public networks. Access to the API is routed exclusively through a dedicated VPN. Only authenticated, credentialed endpoints can reach your reactor data. All traffic flows through an encrypted tunnel that prevents interception, man-in-the-middle attacks, and packet inspection at the network layer.
The result is a system where the full reasoning power of modern AI — autonomous tool chaining, multi-step inference, real-time anomaly detection — operates directly on live industrial data, without exposing your lab's process secrets to the open internet. Your data stays yours. Lens brings the intelligence to you.
Natural Language Analysis
Ask about any instrument parameter in plain English. Lens fetches the data, calculates statistics, and explains what it sees — mean, standard deviation, range, skewness, and more.
Visualization on Demand
Ask for a time series, histogram, correlation plot, or density heatmap. Lens generates publication-quality charts directly from live IDP data, with full control over colors and layout.
Themes, Your Way
Lens fits your workflow, not the other way around. Choose your own color scheme via a built-in theme editor. Configure every accent, background, and highlight, just the way you like.
Transparent Cost Tracking
Every session shows token usage and cost in real time. Monitor spend by model, API key, and time window. No surprises — you always know what the analysis costs.
See what Lens™ can do
Correlation analysis
Ask Lens to compare any two parameters and it will fetch the data, calculate the Pearson correlation coefficient, and generate a density heatmap showing where values cluster.
Distribution analysis
Lens can generate histograms of any IDP or derived dataset. Ask for the distribution of a temperature differential, a pressure reading, or any calculated value across a time window.
Summary statistics
Ask for summary stats on any instrument parameter and Lens returns mean, standard deviation, range, median, quartiles, skewness, and kurtosis — with a plain-language interpretation.
Go from instrument to intelligence
MachineStudio exposes a local REST API with a published OpenAPI spec. LLMs that support tool/function calling can discover and chain these endpoints autonomously — no custom integration required.
Your data stays yours
The MachineStudio API runs locally on your network. Your instrument data never leaves your facility unless you choose to expose it. Lens is designed to work within your existing security posture.
API key authentication
Every request requires a valid X-API-Key header. Keys are configured locally in appsettings.json and never transmitted to EpiWare or any third party.
Local by default
The API binds to your local network by default. Cloud LLM access requires you to explicitly expose the endpoint — typically via a Cloudflare Tunnel or VPN. No exposure without intent.
VPN & tunnel support
For teams that want cloud LLM access, we support Cloudflare Tunnel and standard VPN configurations. Your IT team controls access; the API endpoint is the only surface exposed.
