What’s new in Process Analytical Technology?

Gregg Kell Kell Solutions

How about uses for standardized instrument control and data management software that’s compatible with the entire analytical instrument and process analysis industries and compliant will all 21 CFR part11 requirements?

Dr. Michael Doyle, Norm Jennings, and Dr. Mike Power are the three principals of Symbion Systems, Inc. a sister company to Axiom Analytical, Inc. a widely respected manufacturer of sample interfacing equipment for on-line process analysis.

Symbion Systems, Inc. was founded in 2002 to develop and market standardized instrument control and data management software for the analytical instrument and Process Analytical Technology needs.

After discussing this problem with their current software providers, Doyle and Jennings realized that, to tackle the problem of creating standardized software capable of meeting the generally accepted requirements for process analysis while interfacing with a wide range of instruments, they would have to do it themselves.

They were soon able to identify Dr. Mike Power as the ideal person to head up the software development program.

Dr. Power, with his unique experience on process analytical technologies was the perfect fit for Symbion. Dr. Power independently conceived the need for such a program and was already working on its development.

The fruit of their labor is SYMBION-DX, a universal application development and on-line monitoring environment for all process analysis requirements.

Symbion-DX™ fills the pressing need in the field of process analysis: the need for a common software platform to control and process data from a wide variety of analyzers while providing the functions required to implement all of the operational requirements of process analysis.

Prior to the development of Symbion-DX™, virtually all process analysis software was provided by individual analyzer manufacturers. Consequently, each program worked only with the instruments of that one manufacturer - making it necessary for process analysts to learn and train others to use a wide variety of programs.

In addition, the unit volume of individual hardware suppliers often has not justified the effort required to develop and support the comprehensive software required.

In the view of many process analysts, the majority of the programs currently available do not properly address the real needs of the process analysis community.

Axiom Analytical and Symbion Systems have stepped in and did something about it.

Gregg Kell is President of Kell Solutions a website design and search engine optimization firm based in Laguna Niguel, CA. Permission is granted to re-publish this article providing it is published in its entirety without exclusion including this Author’s Block and imbedded links. The author may be contacted via email.