Lab Owl - Bioreactor Control System
Lab Owl is a flexible, fully integrated, remote access bioreactor control and information system for cell culture, fermentation, regenerative medicine, cell and gene therapy applications. Lab Owl features an easy-to-use interface for bioreactor automation and process control that is highly adaptable and has been leveraged in applications ranging from development labs operating bench-top parallel bioreactors to pilot plants and manufacturing operations.
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What our Customers Love About Lab Owl
Easy Set Up & Scalability
Scientists can easily configure Lab Owl to achieve unique experiment goals while enjoying a highly scalable bioprocessing automation and control system that handles upstream process development through manufacturing.
Outstanding Flexibility
Your lab team can use Lab Owl’s open bioreactor software system to accommodate a wide range of devices and instrumentation, making it an ideal lab automation and control solution regardless of bioreactor or technology types.
Secure, Remote Access
Your scientists can monitor, control and fix runs remotely, eliminating midnight lab runs with push notifications, including alarms, sent right to their devices.
Data Collection & Reporting
Lab Owl records bioreactor data and laboratory information from all integrated analytical instruments, empowering your team to quickly identify bioreactor recipes that are working so your team can operate more efficiently.
Comprehensive Support
Scientists and lab technicians will receive ongoing, expert customer support from day one. Bioreactor control system installation and setup is just the start of a long-term consultative support relationship.
Strong Return on Investment
Lab Owl is affordable and, even more importantly, you only pay for the lab automation and control your lab and scientists need.
Benefits
The esteemed scientific journal Nature surveyed nearly 1,600 researchers and found that 70% had tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiment and more than 50% failed to reproduce their own experiments. Bioreactor automation, information control and targeted customization can have a tremendous positive impact on development lab performance.
No matter what size lab you have, the more automation, control and historical data you can apply to your experiments, the more successful you will be. With Lab Owl you will have all of the information and capabilities that you need, right at your fingertips, to achieve more, all while working smarter and more efficiently with each new experiment or run.
EASY SET UP & SCALABILITY
Scientists can easily configure Lab Owl to achieve unique experiment goals while enjoying a highly scalable bioprocessing automation and control system that handles upstream process development through manufacturing.
OUTSTANDING FLEXIBILITY
Your lab team can use Lab Owl’s open bioreactor software system to accommodate a wide range of devices and instrumentation, making it an ideal lab automation and control solution regardless of bioreactor or technology types.
SECURE, REMOTE ACCESS
Your scientists can monitor, control and fix runs remotely, eliminating midnight lab runs with push notifications, including alarms, sent right to their devices.
DATA COLLECTION & REPORTING
Lab Owl records bioreactor data and laboratory information from all integrated analytical instruments, empowering your team to quickly identify bioreactor recipes that are working so your team can operate more efficiently.
COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT
Scientists and lab technicians will receive ongoing, expert customer support from day one. Bioreactor control system installation and setup is just the start of a long-term consultative support relationship.
STRONG RETURN ON INVESTMENT
Lab Owl is affordable and, even more importantly, you only pay for the lab automation and control your lab and scientists need.
Features
Lab Owl offers a host of flexible, modular bioreactor automation features that will streamline your cell culture and fermentation applications while seamlessly integrating custom aspects of your lab with the entire bioreactor control and information system configuration.
OUT-OF-THE-BOX POWER AND AGILITY
- Right out-of-the-box you get a fully integrated system including controller, HMI, probes, cables, pumps, motors and more
- 21CFR Part 11 compliant Audit Trail and available IOQ templates makes it easier to deploy Lab Owl in your GMP environments
- Lab Owl is highly scalable and can accommodate a wide range of control devices and instrumentation of various sizes, making it an ideal solution for development and manufacturing environments
- Lab Owl is modular and built with industry standard components so when you need more you can easily expand it to meet your lab’s needs
SET UP AND CALIBRATION
- Easily accommodates the physical bioreactor/s configuration
- Save equipment setups for use on future experiments or to easily configure multiple bioreactors
- Simple configuration of variable speed pump motor capabilities in ml/min rather than worrying about pump speed
- Choose from a number of service options, including base, acid, and nutrient feed for each pump
- Lab Owl’s intuitive set up wizards walk you through pH and DO calibration
CONTROLS
- Simple control methodology definition set up for each loop
- Easily construct time or event triggered control functionalities—or recipes—that enable unattended operations like set-point changes and feeds
- Leverage advanced dissolved oxygen controls where all control devices can be sub-loops to the DO loop, with the additional ability to run multiple sub-loops simultaneously
- Material can be charged by flow rate or by weight using the optional scale interface where feed bottles (charging by loss in weight) or vessels (charging by gain in weight) can be put on the scale
REMOTE ACCESS
- Provides convenient remote access whether you’re in another building on your organization’s campus, at home or in transit
- Easily configure the alarm limits for all process variables with notification available locally or at the station, as well as remotely via email, text message, and more
DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING
- Records data from your bioreactors and data outputs from all integrated analytical instruments in a single, easy-to-search repository
- Collects data that helps your team identify runs that are repeatable, robust, and produce just the right yield or desired outcome
- Generates reports from Lab Owl’s historian (in Lab Owl standard format, Excel, or custom formats) and merges it with data from your other lab equipment
How Lab Owl Works
Lab Owl makes it easy to view, manage, control, and fine tune all the elements, parameters, and components of both your experiments and systems
On the Home screen you can see all the bioreactors that are connected to your system. When you click on each bioreactor you can see all the details and components related to that bioreactor. For example, all control loops, pumps, MFC’s and agitator information is available, and you can further click on each one of those items to view a pop-up which allows you to both view, adjust and fine tune the parameters of each. Lab Owl also features a unique wizard which guides you through each step of the pH and DO Probe calibration process.
Macros
Clicking on the Macros button in the Navigation Bar takes you into the Macros feature which includes both the Manager and Editor function. This powerful tool allows you to set up every step of an experiment run, save it, then select and re-run it later without having to re-enter every step from hand written lab notes. This can prevent human errors and save you a lot of time, frustration and money. It also allows you to automate your experiment runs rather than it being a highly manual process.
Name your experiment runs. You can then capture all your data allowing you to document, track, analyze and revisit.
Lab Owl makes it easy to organize your experiment runs. First, you give it a title and a brief description. Next, you can create run markers, and take samples during the run. Lab Owl keeps track of each sample taken assigning it a time, value, user, and all other pertinent information. Then, click on Sample Manager in the navigation bar and you’ll see a list of every sample taken during this experiment run. The Historical Data button in the navigation bar allows you to see, analyze, and do a deep dive into all the data related to your run. Then finally, the data log button gives you all the information you need about the run, including data, audit log trail (for 21CFR part 11 compliance), sample data, and more. All of this information can easily be exported by clicking on the Export button at the bottom of the page.
Notifications and Remote Access
The Notification button on the Navigation Bar directs you to a unique feature that allows you to select any user to receive remote/mobile notifications about your experiment runs. You can select any parameter within the run, the notification details, as well as the message to be sent to the individual user. Also, you can decide whether that notification is delivered by email or text message. This powerful feature can provide enormous peace of mind to the scientist or other lab personnel by simply notifying them of important events that occur during a run… whether expected or unexpected. Once notified, the user can log into the Lab Owl system remotely and make any necessary corrective changes. This makes it possible to potentially save an entire run, which also saves your lab and company time and money.
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