Norgren’s new active controls for life science applications

Working to better understand and solve customer challenges, Norgren is targeting life science instrumentation OEMs by increasing its range of system components that deliver market-leading accurate control and precision-based performance.

Mass flow controllers (MFCs) and electronic pressure controllers (EPCs) ensure the accurate measurement and control of essential liquids and gases used across many life science-related processes, which is key to driving operational efficiency and safety objectives.

Long standing challenges associated with the variety of processing media that require handling, as well as limitations on space within application locations, has traditionally meant the use of multiple MFC and EPC devices. However, this increases the overall instrumentation footprint, drives up procurement expenditure, and adds to system complexity.

Norgren is working towards solving these issues for the life science marketplace. Developing a single, fully integrated, and miniaturised ‘active control’ device that can address the prevailing modularity, cost, and sizing issues around MFC and EPC specification.

The company has produced a short white paper – ‘Taking Control: innovative MFC and EPC solutions to overcome life science OEMs biggest application challenges’, which sets out the common barriers the life science instrumentation industry faces and how Norgren is developing the transformative solutions to overcome them.

As part of the customer-centric and collaborative approach to the development of active controls, Norgren is seeking to work with partners across the life science instrumentation sector to trial the new range of single device MFC and EPC solutions. Giving businesses the opportunity to examine and test the performance of the device and gather informed insight around the potential for operational benefits and future cost savings.

Patrice Salameh for Norgren, said: “The opportunity to trial out the concept of active controls will put a new and innovative solution into the hands of its target audience. It will provide the ability to apply precise control thanks to a smart and automated way of adjusting and modulating media flow and pressure within processing systems. Active control is the new solution to control multiple and often difficult gases and liquids from a single device and is set to deliver outstanding operational benefits to the OEM instrumentation life science sector.

“Active Controls is a tangible example of breakthrough engineering in action. It aligns the long-standing heritage and technical excellence Norgren has within the mass flow and pressure controls marketplace with the real-world issues our customers face. Through better understanding, and by taking a collaborative approach with potential users, decisive and innovating solutions such as active controls can be unearthed and developed for the benefit of the sector in general.”