Bioreactor Control System has configurable architecture.
Share:
Press Release Summary:
Powered by DeltaV Controller, TruBio features embedded PI Enterprise Server with PI Historian, PI Datalink, PI Process Book, PI Batch, and OPC-HDA for data management. TruBio OS Bioreactor Control Operating System provides embedded configurable control logic for various parameters as well as control required for cell culture and fermentation applications. TruLogic controller supports analog and digital solutions and can control up to 6 bioreactors and/or fermentors per controller.
Original Press Release:
Finesse Introduces TruBio, the Industry's First 'Open' Configurable Bioreactor Control System
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 1 -- Finesse, LLC, Santa Clara, CA, a manufacturer of measurement and control solutions for life science process applications, has announced the TruBio -- Bioreactor Control System, the first truly "open" configurable Bioreactor Control System. TruBio is powered by a DeltaV Controller from Emerson Process Management and includes an embedded PI Enterprise Server complete with PI Historian, PI Datalink, PI Process Book, PI Batch and OPC-HDA for data management. The design of the TruBio System consists of two distinct components:
TruBio OS -- Bioreactor Control Operating System
The TruBio OS -- Bioreactor Control Operating System -- is the first "open" configurable software solution developed specifically for the life science industry, and suitable for new as well as existing installations. The embedded configurable control logic for pH, Dissolved Oxygen, Temperature, Pressure, Flow, Level, Foam, Agitation, Weight and a host of other parameters provides the control required for both cell culture and fermentation applications. TruBio OS is designed to enable OEM's, system integrators, engineering firms and end users alike to quickly customize the control system to meet their individual application requirements. "TruBio's 'open' configurable design has the power to compress project schedules and reduce engineering costs while still facilitating customization, and provide a unified platform for plantwide control. The advent of a control system like TruBio has been much needed in the life science industry, as competitive and regulatory pressures continually increase," says Larry West, Exec. V.P. of Sales and Marketing at Finesse. "Our industry has needed a product that steps out of the box to give them hardware independence and as such, the freedom to utilize preferred best in class suppliers for their process measurement and control solutions. The TruBio Operating System delivers on the promise of scalability from R&D to Process Development and into Manufacturing."
TruLogic Controller
The TruLogic controller has been designed to optimize the performance of the TruBio OS. Powered by an embedded DeltaV Controller from Emerson Process Management TruLogic can interface to controllers from Allen Bradley, Applikon, Foxboro, Honeywell, New Brunswick Scientific, Sartorious/BBI, Siemens and Wave Biotech among others. An additional feature of the TruLogic controller is its ability to support both analog and digital solutions while utilizing no proprietary components. The design of the TruLogic controller enables it to control up to six bioreactors and/or fermentors per controller while allowing the networking of numerous individual controllers. Perhaps the most innovative feature of TruLogic is its ability to significantly reduce the high licensing costs traditionally associated with the use of DeltaV. Therein, the TruLogic controller delivers the ability to control hundreds of analog and discrete values with fewer than 5 DeltaV DST's per bioreactor/fermentor controlled. "While other controllers claim to scale-up, the TruLogic controller actually scales down. It scales the DeltaV controller down from Manufacturing into Process Development and R&D," says Larry West, Exec. V.P. of Sales and Marketing at Finesse.
About Finesse
Finesse focuses on delivering innovative optical sensors and next generation digital control systems to enable improved process measurement and control. Our expanding sensor product line provides a complete suite of in- line biological and chemical measurements for bioprocess applications. Our digital control system enables improved process measurement and control, resulting in increased reliability, improved scalability and unprecedented repeatability. For more information on Finesse, please visit us at www.finesse-inc.com
CONTACT: Larry West of Finesse, LLC, +1-949-302-9652
