Over the past few decades, various control disciplines like process, batch, motion and discrete control have been consolidated into a single, common automation architecture. This integration has ...
Equipment-agnostic process control is redefining how biopharmaceutical facilities manage multi-vendor instrument ecosystems. A typical manufacturing line draws on bioreactors, chromatography systems, ...
Integrated processes are those that combine more than one specific unit process into a single piece of equipment or into a group of work stations that are operated under unified control (NRC, 1992).