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News Release from: Crane Process Flow Technologies | Subject: Saunders HC4 Design and Specification Programme
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 January 2005
Saunders Bio-Block valve manufacturing
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Crane Process Flow Technologies has developed software allowing biopharmaceutical processors to specify custom bio-block valves without the usual time-consuming exchange of 2D drawings
Crane Process Flow Technologies (CPFT) has developed software allowing biopharmaceutical processors to specify custom bio-block valves without the usual time-consuming exchange of 2D drawings The software supports the CPFT continuing programme of Saunders HC4 deliverables
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 22 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Saunders HC4 Design and Specification Programme allows the customer to specify and select a fully coded 3D product design, including weir and port sizes as well as diaphragm and topworks details, which can be amended and agreed for manufacture in very short lead times.
A Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML) tool allows the specifier to view custom solutions which will be used to create individual bio-block assemblies by advanced 3D-computer design software and direct tool interfacing.
"The programme offers the customer numerous design options and allows selection of the most appropriate to meet requirements in a fraction of the time it would take to prepare traditional 2D drawings," says David Birch, CPFT HC4 product manager.
"The VRML software allows the designer to rotate and zoom into any aspect of the proposed design whilst discussing requirements with customers wherever they are in the world.
"Custom bio-block selection and creation is the translation of complex piping design into a machined-from-solid valve.
The software programme can achieve this more accurately and efficiently than before." The programme contains more than 100 basic bio-block configurations in 3D coded representation, together with an explanation of design principles, valving terminology and P and ID coding structure.
Customer input and design criteria are translated into a bio-block solution of optimum structural integrity, reduced deadlegs, minimial component numbers and condensed wetted surface area.
Enhanced coding allows the specifier to stipulate all aspects of the design including orientation, material designation, weir and port sizes, surface finish, diaphragm grade and topworks requirements.
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