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Camunda BPM at Zymergen

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Technology Category	Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries	Chemicals Life Sciences Pharmaceuticals
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Predictive Quality Analytics Process Control & Optimization
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services
Challenge	Zymergen, a molecular technology company, was facing challenges in expediting the process of onboarding new projects while maintaining process efficiency and customizability. With an increase in clients, the company needed to reduce the time required to onboard new projects while still guaranteeing efficient and customizable processes. This required a solution that could integrate with its automation and digital systems while providing a flexible interface for scientists and other non-programmers to create, update, and execute these complex workflows. Read More
About Customer	Zymergen is a US-based molecular technology company that creates and improves products using biology. It works with companies in industries including agriculture, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, materials, electronics, and personal care, to both improve the economics of existing molecules, as well as develop new products with engineered microbes. Zymergen’s manufacturing teams engineer and test microorganisms such as bacteria and yeast to improve performance in large-scale fermentation processes. These methods ultimately help microbes more efficiently transform raw input, such as sugar, into molecules of interest. Read More
Solution	Zymergen decided to implement Camunda BPM, a flexible and scalable workflow automation solution. The company uses Camunda’s Spring Boot integration to implement a project and primarily uses Java to interact with different software and automation services in their ecosystem. The combination of Spring and Camunda makes it easy for Zymergen to utilize technologies like REST or publish/subscribe to coordinate and orchestrate its systems. Using these techniques, the Zymergen software team has developed a library of Call Activities that interact with data and automation systems, which scientists use to assemble biologically-significant workflows. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms

Applicable Industries

Chemicals

Life Sciences

Pharmaceuticals

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Predictive Quality Analytics

Process Control & Optimization

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

Challenge

Zymergen, a molecular technology company, was facing challenges in expediting the process of onboarding new projects while maintaining process efficiency and customizability. With an increase in clients, the company needed to reduce the time required to onboard new projects while still guaranteeing efficient and customizable processes. This required a solution that could integrate with its automation and digital systems while providing a flexible interface for scientists and other non-programmers to create, update, and execute these complex workflows.

About Customer

Zymergen is a US-based molecular technology company that creates and improves products using biology. It works with companies in industries including agriculture, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, materials, electronics, and personal care, to both improve the economics of existing molecules, as well as develop new products with engineered microbes. Zymergen’s manufacturing teams engineer and test microorganisms such as bacteria and yeast to improve performance in large-scale fermentation processes. These methods ultimately help microbes more efficiently transform raw input, such as sugar, into molecules of interest.

Solution

Zymergen decided to implement Camunda BPM, a flexible and scalable workflow automation solution. The company uses Camunda’s Spring Boot integration to implement a project and primarily uses Java to interact with different software and automation services in their ecosystem. The combination of Spring and Camunda makes it easy for Zymergen to utilize technologies like REST or publish/subscribe to coordinate and orchestrate its systems. Using these techniques, the Zymergen software team has developed a library of Call Activities that interact with data and automation systems, which scientists use to assemble biologically-significant workflows.

Impact #1	Increased the speed of process onboarding
Impact #2	Reduced the number of manufacturing workflow deviations
Impact #3	Minimized the time spent analyzing data for process troubleshooting and optimization

Impact #1

Increased the speed of process onboarding

Impact #2

Reduced the number of manufacturing workflow deviations

Impact #3

Minimized the time spent analyzing data for process troubleshooting and optimization

Benefit #1	Approaching 20,000 process instance executions per month

Benefit #1

Approaching 20,000 process instance executions per month

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Camunda BPM at Zymergen

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