Smart Data Management and Advanced Analytics to enable Bioprocessing 4.0

We have significantly reduced the training needs by creating a product with an easy and intuitive user interface thereby flattening the learning curve and speeding time to independent operation.

With our annual subscription model, customers can easily budget for the product without the need for a high upfront investment. Additionally, the design and deployment model of the product allows for increasing the scope in phases as the company’s needs grow.

The simplest form of data management in a manufacturing set-up would involve basic data aggregation capability in a validated manner and a set of statistical tools to do process analytics. This is enabled by the Bio4C™ ProcessPad Offline Module. This module also provides the ability to capture data from manual paper records in an electronic format. For large companies with systems like MES (Manufacturing Execution System), LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System), Bio4C™ ProcessPad can connect to these systems directly to fetch offline batch parameter data. In addition to offline data, if a company would like to add machine data visualization and analytics capability, they can add a Bio4C™ ProcessPad-RT module to add this functionality.

One of the key benefits of Bio4C™ ProcessPad is that it enables data sharing and collaboration within the organization. Since our product is browser-based and our license structure provides unlimited user access throughout the company, users from different groups such as process development, internal regulatory and manufacturing teams can easily share their data analysis and visualizations, insights, reports (APQRs, Campaign Reports, Process Summary Reports, Equipment Utilization reports) etc. with each other through the platform.

Our product is designed and built by bioprocess engineers for bioprocess needs and workflows, hence templates for data reporting can be set-up very quickly through a simple user interface by the end-users directly. We provide comprehensive training to all end-users for template creation at the time of product deployment. Once you’re trained, you can manage template creation without any dependency. This process simply involves the selection of key process/analytical parameters that one would like to trend, analyze, and use for reporting purposes.

Bioprocess 4.0 is a lot about digitalization and how this concept can streamline the analysis and multidirectional communication of data—be it between equipment, among unit operations, or across groups and stages of development. The concepts behind Industry 4.0 is related with the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” These concepts include—connectivity, intelligence, and flexible automation. Our Bio4C™ Software Suite within Biocontinuum™ Platform is a novel platform combining process control, analytics, and plant-level automation, which enables users to look across the entire manufacturing process versus individual operational units, giving biomanufacturers complete process control and deep insights.

Our deployments for Bio4C™ ProcessPad is performed in three phases and is supported with services every step of the way.

Phase I consists of web form creation and capturing all offline datasets in these process forms.

Phase 2 involves connectivity to process equipment through data historians to fetch online near real-time sensor data.

Phase 3 involves integration with other data management systems such as LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System), QMS (Quality Management System) or MES (Manufacturing Execution System).

No, implementation of our product Bio4C™ ProcessPad doesn’t impact manufacturing production. We understand the criticality of manufacturing operations and hence our deployment process is short, smart, and user-friendly. Most importantly there is no need for your facility to be offline during the entire deployment of the product.

The Bio4C™ ProcessPad-RT module provides direct web-based access to streaming data from process equipment for real-time machine and batch data analysis. Process engineers have easy access to data to perform routine monitoring of batch profiles or process troubleshooting.

Our module collects the sensor data directly from process-equipment in near real-time for trending, reporting and process analytics.

All these process parameters can be monitored live on user-defined dashboard with the additional capability of monitoring process-excursions and process anomalies.

Intelligently combining process data from disparate data sources generated during batch execution into a single, contextual, integrated data source, Bio4C™ ProcessPad ensures process information is current, complete, and accessible throughout the product lifecycle.

Since the dataset from multiple data-silos is aggregated and contextualized in our platform, this dataset can further be leveraged for building mechanistic models in advanced analytics applications such as digital twins.

Bio4C™ ProcessPad software is a data collection, visualization, and analytics platform that enables bioprocess monitoring, lifecycle management, reporting, investigations, and continued process verification (CPV). Our platform collects datasets from multiple disparate data management systems and serve as a single, contextual, and integrated data source.

A browser-based environment, our product can connect seamlessly with third-party API’s (application programming interface) for artificial intelligence applications such as smart devices.