r/PharmaEire • u/LukeJHolmes • 3d ago

Built a free interactive DeltaV learning resource — couldn't find one so made my own. I hope its useful

Hi all,

Was trying to learn DeltaV properly for biopharma and couldn't find any decent interactive resources. Ended up building one myself.

It covers:

  • DeltaV architecture (Purdue model, controllers, historian)
  • S88 batch recipes with an interactive recipe tree
  • Live PID sandbox — tune, disturb, and recover a bioreactor temperature loop
  • Control Studio function blocks (AI, PID, AO, ALM)
  • HMI design (ISA 101, high-performance displays)
  • Alarm management — floods, shelving, eclipsing
  • CSV/CSA validation workflows, V-Model, OQ execution
  • Capstone: Validation Digital Twin

20 modules, free, open source, runs in the browser.

👉 https://csa-sim.vercel.app

Hopefully useful for anyone to grips with DCS in a GMP environment. Feedback welcome!

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u/eurokev 3d ago

Unreal - how did you do that!!

I've done 2 delta v courses in Leicester over the years probably costing my company e12-15k, and it hasn't equipped me that well really.

Just so you know Emerson now offer a micro training subscription thingy for like e500 for a year. It's ok, and you can request topics, but they use it too much to sell stuff

Expect Emerson to shut you down soon though :)..

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u/LukeJHolmes 2d ago

I built it for myself as a learning tool after seeing the prices and the wall that has been put up for people looking to learn without spending 15k of fees. I used Cursor, Claude Code, Vercel and Github. Spent about three weeks reiterating and working on it (especially the simulators). Its all based on publicly available information. I was finding the manuals a very ineffective way of learning so wanted to build a sort of biopharma control sim that allowed you to mess with settings and parameters and see the effects in real time.

Would be interested to see the Emerson micro training, although I designed this to be somewhat DCS agnostic.

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u/CarlitoBrigante25 3d ago

Class, fair play

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u/LukeJHolmes 2d ago

Thank you

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u/Moist_Pea5007 3d ago

Can't thank more😭

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u/LukeJHolmes 2d ago

No problem. Any feedback or feature suggestions give me a shout as this is a project I plan on interating

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u/Calebbuzy1 3d ago

This is amazing

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u/LukeJHolmes 2d ago

thank you

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u/Nuraya 2d ago

Super cool resource!

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u/LukeJHolmes 1d ago edited 1d ago

Thank you everyone for all the positive feedback. It has really help me to validate that this is in fact useful. I am a Limerick-based contractor in the biopharma space and do these projects for my own learnings most of all. Really appreciate you all checking this out. I have a few other projects you can view if anyone is curious : https://lukeholmes.github.io/

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u/SizeMysterious8873 1d ago

Is this MCS ? I’m a process tech i’m assuming this is for more advanced stuff ? Although i would like to learn more on mcs.

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u/LukeJHolmes 19h ago

My attempt here was to show a macro view of a DCS system and dive in to how different functions within a facility would interact with it. Doesn't cover the production side of things though. I thought about it but it would have added infinite complexity to the project. This more looks the system through a Quality, Validation, Engineering, Automation lens