Enzyme Processing

I did a little skunk works project in early 2019. An old colleague called me up and asked if I was up to a bit of programming. I had worked with this person in the late 90's as a consultant and created a emulator for gasoline pumps. That project worked out really well and helped my colleague test their POS system very thoroughly.

This new project was totally different; automating an enzyme production process. Very different.

The goal was to automate a manual process, involving heating and cooling some material, transferring it from one device to another, monitoring temperature and Ph levels in the various steps, triggering alarms and aborting the process if something went wrong. As I am not a biologist or chemist, I have no idea of the true details, I just needed to program the mechanical and monitoring aspects of the process.

Other attempts at automation had been made by my colleague's employees but there has been issues with the control software. This is why I got called.

The previous automation attempts used an Arduino board for the control software and interfaced to various off the shelf sensors and relays. Since I had had no experience with using an Arduino, I used this hardware as a base to start from, but I tossed any existing code.

More to come...