Communication
An industrial computing system used to automate processes via monitoring inputs (like sensors or switches), processing the logic, and triggering outputs to control equipment in real time.
What is a PLC (programmable logic controller)? Note: customers have these, and sometimes CURIS provides these.
An asterisk/assumption that helps to ensure both efficacy and staff safety.
What is requiring the customer provide/ensure a sealed space/envelope?
The industry/jargon term for a touchscreen that is incorporated into an integration
What is an HMI?
What is the EnviroPod?
An additional assumption/prescription/requirement that must be made of the customer when a dehumidifier or air-dryer is included in the scope of the project
What is a drain, or action of draining a reservoir?
A centralized, computer-based control system that monitors and manages a facility's mechanical and electrical equipment. It serves as the "brain" of a building, regulating heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), lighting, security, and fire safety systems to optimize energy efficiency and occupant comfort
What is a BMS (building management system)?
An asterisk/assumption (important to note when we aren't including a dehumidifier) that helps ensure the customer understands that efficacy is only guaranteed when the starting parameters of the cycle closely mimic the parameters of the cycle development.
What is making customer responsible for management of starting environmental conditions (RH% and temperature) and responsible for validating efficacy in any conditions outside of what our cycle development was validated to.
A device that CURIS can include with fixed (PLC based) integrations, to help ensure that the treatment space is at the appropriate environmental conditions for starting a cycle.
What is a dehumidifier?
A device that has the sole and explicit purpose of terminating cycles (and when possible, initiating aeration/catalyzation of the space)
What is an E-Stop button?
The most important factor impacting turnaround time
What is exhaust/aeration (capacity)?
A lower cost alternative for communicating with the customer BMS than CURIS providing a full PLC.
What is a CURIS BMS Link Box/device?
Two essential PHYSICAL modifications that must be made to the building before the CURIS install to make the space CURIS Integration ready.
What are penetrations, outlets/receptacles? (door seals, wire chase, or similar answer may also count)
The industry/jargon term for the mechanical device that closes off an air supply or exhaust
What is a damper?
The two methods for which CURIS can incorporate an electronic safety checklist into an integration.
The CURIS Decon App (BMS Link) or directly on an HMI (fixed, PLC based integration)
A very impactful variable for MAL integrations, that, when increased, can extend cycle lengths, but decrease overall takt time and increase overall throughput of materials over a given period of time.
What is cubic volume?
The communication protocol/method for interfacing the CURIS BMS Link Box/Device with a customer PLC.
What are dry contacts?
A common CQV activity that CURIS does not perform, but is willing to support.
What is a PQ / Performance Qualification?
Industry jargon terms for the entry and exit side of chambers or airlocks
What are "ingress and egress" or "loading side and unloading side"?
An EnviroPod feature that helps to ensure accurate ppm readings for the fastest room re-entry possible
What is oversaturation protection?
The marketing name for the fixed, PLC based, CURIS integration system
What is the "Totalis"?
The PREFERRED communication protocol/method for interfacing a CURIS PLC with a customer PLC.
What is Modbus over TCP/IP? (if asked if we can do BACNET, the answer is "yes, but at an additional cost") (If asked if we can do dry contacts, the answer is yes)
The party responsible for any necessary modifications to the customer's PLC or BMS
Who is the customer, or the customer's chosen contractor?
The 3 ways in which a BMS Link connected cycle can be initiated
What are "from the BMS", "from the built in CURIS 3 controller", "from the CURIS Decon App".
Industry/Jargon term for completely airtight and gas-tight. Regularly used in BSL-4 contexts, but also sometimes in BSL-3 contexts and biopharmaceutical contexts.
What is a hermetic seal / hermetically sealed?
The industry jargon term used for the fixed assembly of CURIS devices that have a footprint in the mechanical space or mezzanine
What is a skid?