In the ever-evolving world of automation, particularly in biotech and pharma manufacturing, hands-on experience and continuous learning are invaluable. To
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ISPE Vendor Night – Lucid Automation in San Francisco
Our engineering team had a great time at ISPE Vendor Night. Not only highlighting the latest technologies, but served as
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Elevating Your HMI Designs
Elevating Your HMI Designs to Elite Status with my latest piece on Automation World . Discover the immediately actionable techniques we
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ITOT Converge in Standard Server Rack
Our latest PLC install, smartly nestled in a 19″ server rack. The image speaks volumes about Lucid Automation’s commitment to
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Leverage Custom Bioreactor Automation
Leverage the long equipment lead times with custom bioreactor automation to streamline your bioreactor processes. Regardless if you’re still in
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Process Data Lacking?
Automation gains are often realized on the back end of a project. Having a strategy upfront increases the effectiveness, cost, and
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New Equipment: Deciding on Custom vs. Default Automation
You’re specifying new bioreactor equipment. Time to consider automation options: Should you buy the off the shelf automation package or
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chatGPT Generated PLC Code
Functional PLC Structured Text Generation Using chatGPT: Yes, it Works Below, I detail how, within a few hours of learning
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Non-Obvious Gains Through Automation Strategy
Automation gains are often realized on the back end of a project. Having a strategy upfront increases the effectiveness, cost, and
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Lucid Supports “Girls In STEM” at UC Davis
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CuADSo-Lu1A/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MjAxZDBhZDhlNA== Big shout out to Marie and Haruka for participating in the STEM For Girls event at University of California,
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Lucid Expands To Novato and Davis California
We’re proud to be expanding our GMP Life Science Automation operations in California. Our second office is up and running
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Switching to Single-Use Purification
Switching to Single-Use Down Stream Purification, either Chromatography or Tangential Flow Filtration, is not as straight forward as the marketing
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Single-Use Chromatography Data Analytic Upgrades
Life is too short to suffer bad automation. Upgrading off-the-shelf chromatography skids is a cost-effective method to increase productivity and close
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Validating GMP AI Models Published on Automation World
Automation World published my article on validating control system ML models. It’s an exciting new area for life science automation,
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Wire Label
There is one optimal way to label a wire: length-wise, tight to insulation, and near point of termination. Yet in
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Tuning VMs For Industrial Applications
Virtual machines are used at every level because of the value they provide in development, testing, backup, and recovery. But
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Trace Matrix Gap
Inevitably, we all run into a documentation gap. Restarting the workflows to initiate the change, approve, test, and review can
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Alarm Management (ISA 18.2) – Automate This! Podcasts
How many nuisance alarms do you have active? Alarm management includes cheap alarms, ISA 18.2, code libraries, and release by
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Retrofitting Stratix 5700 into Existing Biotech Skid
Retrofitting an OEM skid with a Stratix 5700. When buying new equipment be sure to specify, at a minimum, an
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Bringing Your Design to Life
Do you have a Life Science manufacturing project combining GxP documentation, process control, and data integrity for mixed equipment? Simplify
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Release By Exception – Leverage Your Data
The most satisfying report I ever wrote had one, plain-text “COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY, READY FOR RELEASE” line distilled from 5k+ batch
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Pi to Pi Historian Transfer
Some tips and performance metrics for a project we just completed replicating a Historian Collective from plant floor securely up
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Historical Data and Control Made Easy
Collecting data from small lab equipment and automatic control is harder than it should be. A mix of proprietary software,
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Simplify Your GMP Validation with Code Modules
Simplifying Acceptance Testing starts with design docs and software developed with a solid foundation of GMP change control. There are
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Recognizing Engineering Excellence – Natalie Rusca
I recall trying my best to warn Natalie during her intern interview that this job is tough… Even tougher in
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Automation Internships – Automate This
Should you expose interns to the frustrating side of solving automation problems? Our team discusses the goals of both the
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Cobot Podcast – Automate This! Podcast
Behind the scenes look at the Automate This! News development test runs. Podcasting is definitely a skill that needs to
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Single-Use Bioreactor Market Growth – Automate This! News
Where do you see the Single-Use Bioreactor growth going? Here’s a highlight from our discussion in this week’s Automate This!
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Passwords – Automate This! Podcast
Biometric Passwords and Credential Stuffing in Manufacturing Industry. Life stories used to illustrate https://youtu.be/ILPMlGdNl-4
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Credential Stuffing In ITOT – Automate This!
Credential Stuffing is a common attack on the manufacturing floor. The Lucid team discusses what credential stuffing is and some
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Mentorship, The John Interview – Automate This! Podcast
The Lucid Automation team sits down with John to discuss mentorship past, present, and future. And the value of a
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Chromatography UV Peak Detection
Our Special Projects Intern, Eliott Park, presented his Chromatography UV Peak Detection model using a Keras TensorFlow neural net API.
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Considerations in Mounting DIN Rail Inside Datacenter Racks
Automation is moving into the datacenter. It’s cleaner, cooler, and closer to the IT infrastructure. But there are quite a
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Suffering from Ambiguous Automation Projects?
Determining where to start is critical; trust us to help get you set on the path to success. We’ll be
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S88 Batch Considerations
When designing a set of S88 Batch phases, consider the intended use of the equipment. Expectations for a Process Development
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New Year, New Panels
The first panels of the new year are just about ready to ship! Special thanks to Buckles-Smith Electric, Rockwell Automation,
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Rockwell Automation Fair in Chicago
Lucid has boots on the ground in Chicago for the Rockwell Automation Fair! Getting some swag ready for the Rockwell
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Industrial IT/OT Zero Trust
Manufacturing network boundaries are becoming fuzzy as external business applications requiring trusted access to plant data perforate the once rigid
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Industrial NES Controller – Intern Project
Here is a preview of our intern training project under way. Natalie Rusca and Robert Orta made good progress on
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PLC to SQL, Why Would I?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/plc-sql-why-would-i-bill-mueller/ There exists a gap between the process historians and ODBC-enabled batch/SCADA services to get PLC tag data into a
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GMP Process Solutions
GMP Process Automation is much more that just “Getting it working”, the right experience saves critical time at the end
Prepared To Visualize Your Data – RtReports
RtReports are built to address the needs of Biotech and Pharmaceutical Processes. There are many data visualization solutions out there,
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Validating Biotech AI
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/oracle-problem-validating-biotech-ai-bill-mueller/ One of my more aspirational career goals has been efficient validation testing. It’s an odd goal, but one those that
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Think Twice Before Scanning That QR Code, Cowboy…
As automation and security experts, we’re here about to lay down some serious wisdom about those sneaky little QR codes
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Network Regression Testing
Regression testing of network upgrades is sometimes overlooked when swapping out the core or distribution switches of the factory floor.
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Remote Access – Is it time to review?
We often work remotely, but sustained heavy use has highlighted minor inefficiencies and gaps in audit trails (like identifying ESXi
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Scalable Industrial Network Designs
The network is the base upon which all production equipment and data systems are built. Lucid’s designs are fully documented,