User needs for a gas chromatograph oven.
How to design a temperature-controlled gas chromatography column environment (oven) that saves the chromatographer time and effort.
A list of user needs
- The oven allows humans to work inside it easily
- The oven needs only one person without assistance to work inside it.
- The oven can be demonstrated easily.
- The oven can be demonstrated without eliciting dread in the student.
- The oven is laid out in such a way that it is clear how it used.
- The oven does not use hit-or-miss installation strategies.
- The oven's door stays open on its own.
- The oven does not look like it was assembled first and then made to work afterwards.
- The oven does not impose strain on components.
- The oven does not impose small radii on the capillary column.
- The oven does not have nuts that loosen under thermal cycling.
- The oven makes it easy to use leak detectors
- ! The oven is trustworthy
- The oven uses tested components.
- The oven uses trusted components.
- The oven uses elegant components.
- The oven's components are easy to access and work on.
- The oven's front inlet and rear inlet are equally easy to access.
- The oven's secondary oven does not impinge on access to the inlets.
- The oven has adequate space to work in
- The oven does not demand special furniture for one to work on it.
- The oven is safe to work in
- There is no danger of injury by cuts when working in the oven
- There is no danger of injury by burning when working in the oven
- ! The oven warns the user about hot components.
- The oven makes it easy to see where one is working.
- The oven does not demand bending and contortion when working in the oven.
- The oven has a video camera with which one can examine leak-prone components.
- The oven does not casts shadows where one needs to work.
- The oven has a lamp that supplies light where it is needed.
- The oven is tidy
- The oven does not snag the column.
- There is a convenient space to store tools near the oven.
- The oven does not collect debris.
- The oven is easy to clean.