HelianthOS™ is the central operating system for all of Sunflower’s bioprocess equipment, including the Daisy Petal™ and Dahlia Petal™ Perfusion Bioreactor Systems. Automation through HelianthOS™ reduces the need for bioreactor babysitting, allowing your team to dedicate more time to innovation and less to routine supervision and monitoring.
Features & Benefits
- Comprehensive automation from start to finish: HelianthOS™ automates every part of a fermentation campaign. Users have a hands-free experience while HelianthOS™ monitors and controls each step of your recipe with precision, ensuring consistency across campaigns. When the process recipe is complete, HelianthOS™ initiates system shutdown and empties the biomass from the reactor and the fluids from the tubing.
- Step in when you need to: There are situations during fermentation campaigns when you need to take charge. HelianthOS™ provides manual override options for key controls including dosing antifoam, changing cell removal rates, or shutting down the system if needed. Sometimes you need to make adjustments when life (or biology!) happens.
- Be informed, not overwhelmed: The HelianthOS™ dashboard shows all aspects of a process’ status in a clean, simple presentation. It provides straightforward visibility into your operations, putting all the monitored parameters front and center, without needing to navigate through confusing system diagrams or process trends. In a glance, you are easily informed about what’s going on during your process.
- Documentation matters: It’s essential to accurately record all actions taken and all process data collected during every fermentation campaign. HelianthOS™ logs every action that occurs during a campaign with full traceability, whether it is executed through automated system control or by manual intervention. Data from all monitored parameters is output from HelianthOS™ to Harvest™ for safe storage, so nothing is ever lost.
Nursery™ is the place where the process planning happens. It allows users to develop fermentation recipes, and document all the process fluids needed during a campaign. You can monitor process data (remote from the system!) using customizable tools to visualize your favorite parameters from a current or past campaign. Nursery™ also provides robust access control for secure user credentialing to the Sunflower™ software suite.
Features & Benefits
- Build your process: Nursery™ is where users design and modify fermentation process recipes for deployment through HelianthOS™ (including tracking the fluids used). Built in version control ensures precise process documentation and easy updating for future use. Set points for each process parameter are specified by users in Nursery™, along with process timing and the sequence of individual fermentation steps.
- Data visualization at your fingertips: Nursery™ provides remote access to current and historical campaign data stored in Harvest™ with tools for customized viewing, providing essential oversight for strategic decision-making during and after runs.
- Get reports that tell the full story: Nursery™ delivers comprehensive and customizable reports for in-depth analysis of bioprocess performance to support informed planning and process improvement.
- Secure access: only authorized personnel allowed: Nursery™ carefully manages who gets access to system hardware, recipes and data to keep sensitive information safe and uphold operational integrity.
Harvest™ is at the heart of managing the critical data for your campaigns. It ensures every piece of information collected using Sunflower’s equipment is stored and retrieved securely. Harvest™ is designed with flexibility in mind to meet your security and operational needs.
Key Features
- Adapts to your needs: Harvest™ is flexible, whether your application requires local storage, or you prefer to use Sunflower’s cloud-based solutions for data accessibility and security.
- Data Managed…period. From recipe specifications to telemetry data, Harvest™ keeps everything organized, secure, and accessible to those that need it.
- Ready for regulated use: Harvest™, along with all of Sunflower’s software tools, is designed to 21 CFR Part 11 standards. We support compliance-related activities to qualify our systems and software as requested.
- Easy local data transfer: Harvest™ makes it easy to transfer and archive your campaign data locally.