Invensys to present on biotechnology process automation at INTERPHEX Puerto Rico

Presentation discusses the collaborative, standards-based approach to bio-process design employed for Genentech’s successful Project TRINITY and related process performance benefits

Daren Moffatt, a pharmaceutical industry specialist at Invensys Process Systems, will present a technical case study paper at the INTERPHEX Puerto Rico Conference on February 16th 2006 at 11:00 AM. The presentation was developed in conjunction with Ron Menendez, a senior automation engineer at Genentech.

The presentation, based on the successful Project TRINITY at Genentech’s flagship South San Francisco bio-manufacturing facility, examines process design, an early, but critical, step in the automation of a biotechnology process and the benefits of using a collaborative team approach with early involvement by all parties. This helps to ensure that the project requirements are built into the design and successfully fulfilled. The importance of a standards-based approach is also discussed, as are the process performance improvements realized using this overall approach.
Invensys Process Systems is also demonstrating instruments, systems, software, and services from the company’s Foxboro, SimSci-Esscor, Validation Technologies, and Wonderware units at Interphex Puerto Rico Booth #906. (Additionally, Invensys’ local Foxboro instrumentation representative – PAS Technologies, Inc. – will be exhibiting a variety of high-quality Foxboro field instruments at Booth #931.)


About Genentech

Genentech is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and commercializes biotherapeutics for significant unmet medical needs. A considerable number of the currently approved biotechnology products originated from or are based on Genentech science. Genentech manufactures and commercializes biotechnology products and licenses several additional products to other companies.

About Invensys Process Systems

Invensys Process Systems, a business unit of Invensys plc, provides products, services and solutions that enable today’s industrial process plants to monitor, manage, and improve the performance of their manufacturing assets while complying with global regulatory requirements. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions group, Invensys Process Systems includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, SimSci-Esscor, Validation Technologies, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products and services are installed in more than 100,000 plants across the world. These range from small hybrid and batch food and pharmaceutical plants to the world’s largest upstream projects, refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills.
 

The Invensys Group (www.invensys.com) is made up of five businesses: Process Systems, APV, Eurotherm, Rail Systems and Controls. The Group is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.