Designed for the bioprocessing market, the i-ControlXL platform offers industrial power, reliability and expandability using standard programmable logic controllers (PLC) and distributed control systems (DCS). The platform addresses critical issues, such as high-throughput screening, scaling up and down, and the requirements of the FDA’s process analytical technology (PAT) initiative.

Updates to CISPro Global and CISPro Live enhance the user’s ability to track biological and radiological materials in inventory. A new function permits sorting by user-defined properties. For biological materials, such as bacteria and purified plasma, six attributes are built into the new tracking function. These include reference number, user-defined type, species variety, genes of interest, transgenic filing and research notes.

Designed for use in quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) applications, the recently released Testream/CS 7.0 features the data-reporting tool ReportWriter. Employing an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, Report-Writer enables users to combine different data elements, such as spreadsheets, graphs, control charts, Word documents, into one report.

The Material Balance Module (MBM) for this firm’s Advanced Real-time Performance Modeling (ARPM) suite, is an easy-to-use, flowsheet-based solution that uses advanced mass and volume reconciliation to reveal sources of random error, bias, and gross error that jeopardize the accuracy of real-time plant data. The software interfaces directly with a plant’s IT infrastructure to automate data reconciliation without additional routine data entry.

QuickQuan 2.0 delivers rapid LC-MS/MS optimization through an automated online infusion mode and valve switching design, allowing precise auto-tuning with high sensitivity and maximizing successful automated quantification of chemically diverse compounds. The unique autosampler infusion feature enables automated compound optimization. All analytical information can be stored in Microsoft Access or Oracle databases, which facilitates rapid data exchange across global networks.

This new software, a result of the partnership between SAP and TechniData, integrates all phases of the newly enacted European Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) legislation to help organizations protect their brand and reputation while driving higher growth and stakeholder trust. REACH legislation requires specific documentation and data from more than 6,000 chemical-related companies for the handling of 30,000+ substances entering the European markets.

The ControlWizard Control-Loop Performance Monitoring (CLPM) technology is now equipped with full multivariable predictive control (MPC) capability. These new capabilities are compatible with all types of multivariable control applications, including DMCPlus and other similar MPC technologies to deliver clear and concise benchmarks of MPC performance. Multivariable control has long provided significant benefits to the process industries, but most MPC applications require dedicated maintenance by skilled professionals.

 PVGEN Pro creates an intelligent 3D AutoCAD-based model of any pressure vessel by reading and preserving the geometry, specifications, and material properties from the equivalent Compress file. Once the 3D model is generated, users can refine it by directly editing components, such as nozzles, modifying clearances, and adding supporting and miscellaneous steel structures.

SIL Solver is an advisory software package intended for use in verifying the safety integrity level (SIL) of safety instrumented functions (SIF) and other protective instrumented functions (PIF). It uses globally recognized calculation methods defined in appropriate standards and methodologies including: ANSI/ISA 84.00.01-2004/IEC 61511; ISA TR84.00.02; and CCPS Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis (CPQRA).

The LABTrack Pro electronic laboratory notebook is a thin-client application that can be used with both PCs and Macintoshes running browsers such as Internet Explorer, FireFox and Safari. LABTrack Pro’s new Smart-XForms allows users to create and apply fully searchable templates on LABTrack’s lab notebook pages. Created with the built-in word processor, Smart-XForms can contain text, spreadsheets, form elements, rules and calculations. These user-defined forms are automatically indexed and the form’s captions and values made available for users to search across notebooks.