Workflow

A technical operating layer for process design.

Automated stainless-steel bioreactor train with hygienic piping, instrumentation, pumps and control systems — Plant-wide operationsBuild around the complete production network.
Equipment occupancy, transfers, cleaning, utilities, maintenance and release steps become visible in one workflow.

Industrial 15,000-litre stainless-steel fermenters with platforms, separation equipment and plant controls — Production sequenceMove from process recipe to executable site schedule.
Reuse equipment, expose bottlenecks and compare operating scenarios before committing industrial capacity.

Operating model

Every workflow returns to the same governed plant.

Change one branch and review the consequences across balances, dynamics, capacity, cost, environmental impact and readiness.

Acatian plant overview with model scope, process status and engineering readiness — **Every workflow returns to the same plant model.**Change equipment, operating mode, schedule or assumptions, then inspect the effect across balances, capacity, TEA, LCA and readiness.

Four stages

Define, build, challenge and decide.

The interface reveals the next engineering action while preserving the source and model state behind every result.

ProductDefine product, organism, scale, titer, recovery, quality constraints, and uploaded data.

ProcessGenerate and edit the flowsheet, unit procedures, streams, utilities, cleaning loops, and recycle paths.

PhysicsCheck kLa, OUR, pH, DO, heat load, mixing time, cell boundaries, and CFD-style distribution risks.

DecisionCompare the process against scale-up, cost, quality, utility, and sustainability limits; then choose the next engineering action with the evidence attached.

Engineering questions

Follow the effect of a change through the whole model.

Each example starts with a decision and ends with recalculated outputs, a before/after comparison and an explicit evidence gap.

Workflow example

“Reduce media cost by 20%”

Open parameters, lower media intensity, test titer/recovery tradeoffs, inspect ammonium/osmolality warnings, compare direct cost, then download TEA-ready CSV for the new scenario.

Workflow example

“Can I scale this reactor?”

Jump to CFD, check kLa/OTR margin, mixing time, gas hold-up, shear and dead zones, then return to Process Builder to split the reactor into parallel scale-out trains.

Workflow example

“Prepare an LCA handoff”

Use streams and reports to export water, WFI, media, chemicals, utilities, waste, emissions, per-batch values, annual values, per-kg values, and screening CO2e factors.