Jova Solutions, a company supplying products and services for biotechnology and electronics applications, announced that it has released FermWorks™ version 2.1 , its software for comprehensive management of cell culture and fermentation processes.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, March 01, 2005
FermWorks™ 2.1, influenced by best practices employed in the electronics industry, is a unified, scalable solution that automates control and data management from small-scale process development labs up through production facilities. FermWorks™ has been in use at leading biopharmaceutical companies since 2001, where it has been proven to accelerate the commercialization of new biotherapeutics. This new version adds more powerful analysis and control capabilities, as well as support for additional industry-standard instrumentation protocols , such as OPC and National Instruments FieldPoint. Increased efficiency and repeatability, adherence to Good Laboratory Practices, FDA compliance, and data security make FermWorks™ 2.1 a must for protecting and increasing serious investments in biopharmaceutical production processes.
The features of FermWorks™ 2.1 include recipe development and process control; data acquisition, analysis, display, and archiving; communication with instruments regardless of manufacturer; access from anywhere in the networked system; system security and tracking. However, i n addition to these general capabilities, FermWorks™ can be extended to include a company's own proprietary control algorithms, calculated results, custom data displays, and unique hardware.
Companies using FermWorks™ have realized several important benefits. First, the increased efficiency in process development and analysis of results leads directly to reduced time to market for new products. The time saved translates directly into reduced operation costs and avoids lost opportunity costs. Another invaluable benefit is the reduced chance of expensive, catastrophic loss of experiment data and materials when FermWorks™ is managing the process data, control, analysis, and security. Finally, FermWorks™ minimizes the cost of expansion for companies that want to unify their facilities and plan for the future. Expansion includes scaling up production, increasing process volumes, adding more bioreactors and other instrumentation, developing new control strategies or analyses, and integrating with other parts of the business enterprise. FermWorks™ can accommodate all this growth over time, without the purchase, retraining, and data conversion price tags of a series of limited systems.
FermWorks™ has a unique origin, combining the lessons learned in the Silicon Valley electronics industry with years of experience in biotechnology and chemical instrumentation. The exponential advances in efficiency and repeatability achieved by electronics manufacturers over the past decade enabled that industry to produce higher quality products in greater volumes for lower cost with fewer personnel. Jova Solutions, in collaboration with some of the West Coast’s major pharmaceutical companies, implemented a “factory automation” model for the biopharmaceutical industry. With this networked, scalable system, experiments are designed in researchers’ offices, refined in small volumes in R&D labs, perfected in larger Process Development reactors, and can be deployed to the Pilot Plant and manufacturing, with results summarized at every stage for both scientific analysis and business planning.
About Jova Solutions
Jova Solutions, Inc. (formerly WireWorks West) develops advanced software solutions for distributed process control and data management for science and industry. Leveraging its proven core platform for process control, it creates software solutions and complementary products that match the business and technical requirements of specific markets. Jova Solutions, founded in 2000 by Martin Vasey and Andrew Johnson, is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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