ISC provides independent, high quality control engineering consultancy services to the pharmaceutical industries.
ISC specialises in:
Our simulation models are always validated to the highest standards against plant data from production or prototype testing, to ensure that the simulation accurately represent the real system.
Optimal control solutions can range from simple classical feedback/feedforward to advanced control, such as model-based methods like MPC. Nevertheless, simplicity remains a key objective in our solutions, providing performance criteria can be met.
Our clients include Centre for Process Innovation, GSK and Roche.
We provide standard, industry specific and bespoke courses on a range of fundamental and advanced control engineering topics.
We can adapt individual courses to suit your company's industry/business.(Examples)
The manufacturing process of medicines and therapeutic products for humans requires extensive quality control to ensure both safety and consistency. These rigorous quality targets can lead to a high level of wastage so minimising product batch failures is a key concern.
Using LabVIEW and the Control Design and Simulation Module, we created a biological process training suite for operations personnel, simulating long duration bio-manufacturing processes whilst balancing realism and technological capability with cost, ease of use and future extensibility.
The training suite consists of an instructor and a trainee module. The instructor model supports customisation of the training needs and specific scenarios (normal and fault conditions). Equipped with a dynamic simulation of the targeted bio-process, the trainee module enables the process operator to gain hands-on experience of the processes during normal and fault scenarios.
An investigative study undertaken for a manufacturing site revealed pH drift in a process sample occurred in the period between sampling and laboratory testing. Procedures were reviewed and changes were recommended.
Benefits included elimination of routine manual laboratory sampling (savings of over 800 hrs/annum), reduction in pH calibration "trimming" (a saving of approximately 1000 hrs/annum of Instrument Technicians time), and improved reliability of measurements.