Finesse Introduces TruBio, The Industry's First 'Open' Configurable Bioreactor Control System
Santa Clara, CA - Finesse, LLC, 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.
SOURCE: Finesse, LLC