Commercially available high speed steel was analyzedsimultaneously using the EBSD and EDS techniques ata very high speed of more than 200 points/s. Thanksto its extremely fast reanalysis option the CrystAlign™ software permits the user to launch measurements withoutknowing all the phases present in the sample. This in turnsignificantly reduces the preparation time needed beforelaunching the measurement. Thanks to these new hardwareand software developments the SEM occupation time foracquiring a map of 480,000 points was drastically reducedto less than one hour i.e. 38 min for data acquisition, plusmaximum 15 min for sample, electron beam, hardware andsoftware setup.