Interview with Key-note Tim Jaarsma: Innovation Support and Growth hub – automation in bioprocessing
Tim Jaarsma talks about the development of products within the Growth Hub, an innovation platform of IMI in which solutions and/or new products are developed together with the customer based on problems from the market.
IMI is an engineering company that focuses on industrial automation, transportation and life sciences. Jaarsma is involved in bioprocessing within the life sciences section.
“By talking to R&D persons from life science companies or via a questionnaire that can be filled in online on our website, we learn about the problems that people encounter”, says Jaarsma. “By collaborating with them on new developments, we help to bring products to the market faster.”
15:45 – 16:30 am, Final session – Keynote 3
Tim Jaarsma, IMI Adaptas: Innovation Support and Growth hub – automation in bioprocessing
Read the interview with Key-note Tim Jaarsma
The additional Keynotes
Keynote 1: Manufacturing of antibody-drug conjugates using single-use materials, pros and cons by Ruud Verstegen, Process Engineer downstream processing at Byondis, creator of precision medicine. Read More
Keynote 2: The use of Single use in Large scale Manufacturing – The Hybrid Approach
by John Rook, Process expert MSAT Ibex® Solutions at Lonza. Read more
Conference and trade fair sponsors 2023
Alfa Laval; AllPAQ; Aseptic group; AVANTOR; Beun – de Ronde; BioSPX; Broadley-James; CLARIPURE; ChemSPX; CPI Biotech; CYTIVA/PALL; Elscolab; Endress+Hauser; Eurofins BioPharma Testing Netherlands; Filtrox; FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific; GEA; Getinge/Applikon Biotechnology; GMPTEC GmbH; Hamilton Bonaduz; HITMA; HOF Sonderanlagenbau GmbH; KROHNE; Kuhner Shaker; Levitronix; M-filter; NOVA Biomedical; Parker Hannifin; RAUMEDIC AG; Repligen; Romynox; SANI membrames; Sanisure; Sonotec; TECNIC; Thermo Fisher Scientific; Watson-Marlow; XYLEM
The theme of Single-Use Event 2023: Compatibility/standardization
Although there are clearly numerous benefits to implementing single-use (SU) technology, there are still some challenges, such as equipment compatibility and lack of standardization.
Every SU producer manufactures their own SU components like bioreactors, sensors and connectors, which do not always fit to components of other producers. That makes it very complex and also logistically challenging for users.
By not standardising across SU system manufacturers it effectively forces the end user to remain within a given SU environment once they make that initial selection decision to go with a particular SU system manufacturer.
Advantages to single use system standardisation include the avoidance of costs for system modification and faster implementation.
If standardised designs are created that are more or less interchangeable from vendor to vendor the potential market for each SU system manufacturer should increase accordingly, and it should also allow cost reduction in terms of producing those items, because they become standardized.
About Single-Use
At the Single-use Event 2023 suppliers and users meet during the ultimate networking event in the world of bioprocessing, biotechnology and (bio)pharmaceutical manufacturing. The Single-use Event focusses on the technological and product developments in the following areas: Continuous Bioprocessing, Cell Culture Systems & Microbial Systems.
The visitors come to the event to orientate themselves on new products, to network and to attend the speakers program.
Among the visitors are (bio)process technologists, (bio)pharmaceutical scientists, (bio)chemists, life scientists, biotechnologists, process engineers and process managers.