Overview:
Delivered in conjunction with Applikon, Emerson and Industrial Technology Systems Ltd. (ITS), this three-day course introduces the benefits, strategies and concepts of automation and control in industrial biomanufacturing. Participants learn about the potential for control improvement, how to know when process control systems are underperforming, and gain an appreciation of how to build a business case for implementing better quality control systems.
Content:
Day 1
Session one
The Bio Control Systems Landscape
Session two
Dynamics and why it is important to control design
Session three
Open and closed loop control concepts, reverse acting / forward acting, performance metrics and PID control
Session four
Bioreactor measurement and the implications for control, online measurement and offline sampling
Session five
Controller tuning laboratory
Day 2
Session one
Advanced control concepts – feedforward, cascade and ratio control
Session two
Bioreactor loop interactions and their implications. Control strategies to mitigate interactions
Session three
Cost-benefit analysis
Session four
Industrial implementations of bioreactor control at the lab and pilot plant scale
Session five
Overview of statistical process control – concepts and its role
Day 3
Session one
Overview of advanced control concepts
Session three
Control and automation in the validated environment
Session two
Software demonstration of advanced control
Session four
Exploiting data from the controlled environment