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Batch Expert 5.4 Released
Version 5.4 includes several new features including new equipment support, KPI reporting, and much more.     Read more here.
 
PAT
Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) has become an increasingly important approach to improved process characterization in the development of pharmaceuticals including products created from fermentation and bioprocessing.   Read more here.
 
Chemical Manufacturing
ILS is working closely with a chemical manufacturing facility to increase productivity and profitability through new technology.  Read more here.
 
High-Throughput Applications
ILS is working closely with scientists to automate the heuristics of method selection for high-throughput chromatography applications.  Read more here.
 
BPDF Partnership
ILS partners with Dr. Mike Meagher and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Biological Process Development Facility (BPDF) to integrate Batch Expert as a platform for more flexible fermentation control and PAT.
 
Gensym® G2 Services
ILS is a partner of Gensym and provides Gensym G2 based solutions and products.  Read more here.
 
Interfaces
Batch Experts integrates multiple equipments and instrument sources including B. Braun, Applikon, New Brunswick, BioEngineering bio-reactors ans YSI instruments.
 
Useful Laboratory Databases
ILS provides solutions and services to implement affordable, standard databases in a laboratory environment.  Integrate equipment, instruments and off-line measurements in a robust central database.  Applications include fermentation, bioreactor, and analytical laboratories.  ILS integrates non-proprietary databases in an open and transparent manner.      
 
Selected ILS Customers
ILS works with primarily process, manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies with applications in research/development and production. 
 
Gensym® G2 Bridges
ILS delivers new DDE and Serial software, interfaces bridges for  the Gensym G2 platform.  ILS also provides the expertise to implement G2 interfaces.      Read more here.
 

 

Batch Expert

- Improving development and production batch processes:

  • Enhanced SCADA solution for batch processes
  • Control and batch reporting with emphasis on biotechnology processes for PD through pilot scale
  • Tailored towards data acquisition, control and reporting for fermenters and bio-reactors
  • Recipe-based sequential control and process monitoring
  • Designed for processes that desire or require highly reliable control and data acquisition
  • Integrate a wide variety of instruments, valves, pumps, etc.  Batch Expert can communicate to any device with a serial port, DDE interface, OPC interface, or connected to a PLC/DCS.
  • Enterprise-wide integration with Oracle and/or SQL Server for data storage, retrieval and reporting
  • Ease of adoption though graphical programming and simple straightforward user interfaces.  Designed with the scientist, the technician and software engineer in mind.   

ILS Solutions and Services

- Solutions and services tailored to meet the needs of our customers

  • Realize an integrated laboratory of equipment, instrument, control and databases
  • Develop and deploy custom and control, monitoring and reporting strategies to improve productivity
  • PLC based solutions for control of instruments, machine and batch processes.  We specialize in pharmaceutical and biotechnology processes that require FDA validation and 21 CFR Part 11 electronic signatures.  Maintain the desired functionality and connectivity while still meeting regulatory requirements.      
  • Database design and implementation for fermentation and bio-reactor laboratories
  • Rule-based systems for equipment and process monitoring.  Real-time, multi-threaded systems that evaluate user-defined rules to monitor and control a variety of processes.

ChromSmart®

- Increased throughput and productivity for HPLC applications

  • Increased throughput by marrying equipment control and real-time, rule-based decision making. Intuitive flow sheets execute the decision making process
  • Intuitive systems geared towards technicians and operators for Open/Access and Walk-up systems
  • Commit fewer personnel resources for development through development, analytical and preparative applications

RECENT ILS VALUE-ADDED APPLICATIONS

- Adding Value Through Automation & Data Integration

  • Robust, real-time software bridges to serial based laboratory equipment.  Implementing the foundation of rules-of-thumb to reliably and robustly communicate to laboratory equipment with serial RS232/RS422 interfaces over a Local Area Network (LAN, TCPIP)  
  • Real-time process monitoring, diagnosis and troubleshooting for polymer manufacturing based upon laboratory/real-time  measurements.  Rule-based and robust manner to monitor and diagnose the process based upon fundamental process engineering and SQC rules.
  • High-Throughput method selection and method analysis.  Real-time execution of rules in the form of flow-sheets to choose an appropriate method and analyze the data from an executed method.