Qubicon provides a centralized software platform for real-time monitoring, data management, and advanced process control in biotechnological and pharmaceutical R&D labs and GMP production facilities. The platform unifies data from online, at-line, and offline devices into a single database, enabling quality-based process decisions through features like golden batch comparison, soft-sensors, and flexible control strategies. It also includes a PAT-Box hardware device that translates signals from lab equipment into the OPC UA standard for seamless integration.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Biotechnological and pharmaceutical R&D laboratories and GMP production facilities often struggle with fragmented data from diverse online, at-line, and offline equipment. This leads to inefficient workflows, delayed decision-making, and a reliance on raw data rather than quality-based process control, increasing the risk of batch rejection and hindering process optimization.
Solution
Qubicon provides an all-in-one software platform that automatically unifies data from all process-relevant devices into a central database, creating a single source of truth. The platform enables real-time monitoring, process comparison against golden batches, and advanced process control through soft-sensors, KPIs, and model-based predictive strategies. By interlinking all process and product information, Qubicon converts raw data into actionable knowledge, allowing users to move from raw data-driven to quality-based process decisions. The software supports flexible control loops, even across multiple devices, and can be applied in both R&D labs and entire GMP production facilities.
Target Audience
Primary customers are biotechnological and pharmaceutical R&D laboratories, as well as GMP production facilities, including process engineers, scientists, and automation specialists seeking to digitize and optimize their bioprocessing workflows.
Features
- Central data platform that automatically unifies data from online, at-line, and offline equipment into one database
- Real-time process comparison with golden batch functionality, deviation alerts, and time-offset alignment for multiple process curves
- Advanced process control with soft-sensors, KPI calculations, setpoints, and model-based predictive control strategies like feed on demand
- Client-server architecture with unlimited access points and support for various communication interfaces and data protocols, including OPC UA
- PAT-Box hardware device that translates signals from lab equipment into the OPC UA standard, enabling integration of existing devices
- Sampling functionality for auto-generation of unique sampling IDs, with optional external IDs displayed as QR or barcodes