Ziccum AB has signed an agreement contracting the ICP Institute of Computational Physics at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences' School of Engineering (ZHAW) for the next phase of the project developing 3D modelling of LaminarPace - Ziccum's unique ambient drying system for biopharmaceuticals. The project aims to accelerate industrial development of LaminarPace and will run over three years. The team at ZHAW is one of the most recognized internationally within industrial simulation and modelling.

Ziccum has now signed an agreement contracting the Research Area Multiphysics Modeling and Imaging team of the ICP at ZHAW to begin the next phase of an ongoing project developing 3D modelling, and ultimately Digital Twin capabilities for LaminarPace, Ziccum's unique ambient drying system for biopharmaceuticals. The ICP team is made up of 20 simulation experts, physicists, mathematicians and engineers led by Prof. Dr. Gernot Boiger and has carried out projects modeling particle flow across industries including pharmaceuticals, aerospace, energy, automotive and more. LaminarPace is developed as a unit for unique ambient drying that can be integrated into the pharmaceutical manufacturing process.

This project will significantly accelerate that industrial development, tech transfer and scaleout. With 3D modelling, Ziccum can provide its clients with the optimal process and material parameters for LaminarPace to be integrated into their existing manufacturing processes as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. A cloud-enabled Digital Twin, the planned final stage of the project, will apply the ZHAW team's machine learning algorithms to process thousands of data points from LaminarPace's historic sensor data.

This will produce multiple models of optimized manufacturing volumes, flows and outcomes that will reduce risk, increase cost-efficiency and enable partners to predict what will happen to their product or campaign when a parameter is changed in real-time. On September 14th 2022, Ziccum and ZHAW announced that they had applied for joint funding towards the project from the Eurostars funding body. The results of that application are expected in December 2022.