Biotech company to host fieldbus seminar

Genzyme, a leading biotech company, will host a comprehensive Foundation fieldbus seminar on 3rd and 4th November 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Genzyme, a leading biotech company, will host a comprehensive Foundation fieldbus seminar on 3rd and 4th November 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The event will include hands-on instruction in the use of Foundation fieldbus control systems, and feature presentations by leading worldwide experts in fieldbus technology.

At the Genzyme facility on Thursday 3rd November, Tri-State University (TSU) Technology Center will host a workshop covering fieldbus end user applications in the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries.

The instructor will discuss implementation of the open, integrated Foundation fieldbus H1 and High Speed Ethernet (HSE) automation architecture in life sciences production environments.

The seminar will also include a tour of Genzyme's Allston Landing manufacturing facility, which includes several hundred Foundation fieldbus nodes.

Allston Landing is a licensed manufacturing site and part of the therapeutics business of Genzyme Corp.

The 16,700m2 facility has bulk manufacturing capacity for multiple products utilizing recombinant mammalian cell culture.

Six 2000-litre bioreactors are used to produce recombinant enzyme products for the treatment of patients with specific lysosomal storage diseases.

These genetic disorders are ultra-orphan diseases that affect very small patient populations.

The Allston Landing site also has a product filling and lyophilisation capability for the enzymes produced there, as well as additional products manufactured at other Genzyme locations and other companies in collaboration with Genzyme.

Commercial products currently produced at Allston Landing include: Cerezyme, Fabrazyme, Thyrogen and Aldurazyme.

Catherine Cook, Genzyme's Director of Communications, will introduce the Genzyme Corporation.

Bill Dolan PE, Principal I and C Engineer who has been intimately involved with the fieldbus controls at the Allston Landing facility, will deliver a paper on Friday morning discussing the lessons learned in implementing a multiple-bus control system in a biotech facility, with a particular emphasis on the Foundation fieldbus elements of the system.

TSU Technology Center is the newest regional training center providing certified Foundation fieldbus training courses.

Located in Angola, Indiana, the TSU Technology Center lab is being equipped with Foundation-compliant host systems and fieldbus instruments provided by Fieldbus Foundation members.

The Foundation is supporting the facility through the creation of a training curriculum for end users, and training of the centre's instructors.

The seminar agenda on Friday 4th November will include an overview of the Fieldbus Foundation's global end user councils (EUCs), presentations concerning Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) technology and fieldbus economic models, and an update on recent Foundation activities around the world.

Prominent end user companies will also give presentations.

The program will conclude with a panel discussion involving seminar speakers.

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