Bioreactor Recipe Conversion via Word Processor Styles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional batching software systems for bioreactor systems are complex and difficult to use for authoring recipes, leading to high costs due to the need for specialized staff or consultants, especially in smaller companies, as manufacturers focus on adding features rather than improving usability.
Innovation Solution
A bioreactor control system that includes a batch server, batch software, and a recipe conversion system capable of translating word processor files into a format usable by the batch software, utilizing XML files and custom document properties and styles to simplify the recipe authoring process, allowing for the generation of control sequences for bioreactor systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional batching software systems are used with complex recipe authoring interfaces, then the software can provide comprehensive bioreactor control functionality, but the ease of operation deteriorates requiring specialized staff or consultants
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary conversion system that translates between simple word processor files and the complex internal recipe format of batching software. This mediator allows users to author recipes using familiar word processing tools while the system automatically handles the complex translation and validation, resolving the contradiction between comprehensive control functionality and ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a simplified copy of the recipe authoring interface using standard word processor formats. Instead of requiring users to learn complex proprietary interfaces, the system accepts familiar document formats and converts them into the required control sequences, maintaining full bioreactor control functionality while dramatically improving usability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If comprehensive features are added to batching software to enhance bioreactor control capabilities, then the software functionality is improved, but the device complexity increases making the software more difficult to use
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complexity of recipe authoring from the batching software interface itself and relocates it to an automatic conversion process. The complex feature set remains in the batching software for comprehensive control, while the user interacts only with simple word processor files, effectively taking out the complexity barrier.
Solution Approach 2:
The conversion system acts as an intermediary layer that handles all complexity translation. Users work with simple documents, the converter manages the complex mapping to software features, and the batching software executes comprehensive control functions. This intermediary architecture allows full functionality without exposing users to software complexity.
3Reliability
If specialized staff or consultants are hired to author recipes in complex batching software, then accurate bioreactor control is achieved, but the loss of substance increases due to higher operational costs
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service recipe authoring by allowing any user with a word processor to create and import recipes without requiring specialized training. The automatic conversion and validation processes ensure accuracy while eliminating the need for expensive specialized staff or consultants, reducing operational costs while maintaining reliability.
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AI summary
A bioreactor control system comprises a batch server for controlling a bioreactor system in response to a recipe, a batch software system for generating a control sequence for the bioreactor system via the batch server for implementing the recipe, and a recipe conversion system that inputs the recipe into the batch software system. Preferably, the recipe conversion system reads a word processor file containing the recipe and interprets styles applied to text in the word processor file as indicating equipment and phases of the recipe to the recipe conversion system. Generally, the bioreactor system includes one or more bioreactors and additional hardware to perform the upstream and downstream processing. The document properties of the word processor file containing the recipe are applied as header information for the recipe input into the batch software system. This system solves a problem associated with traditional batching software systems, in which the authoring of recipes on the systems can be relatively arcane. Here, the recipe can be authored on a common word processor.