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CPC platform

CPC control systems

The control platform on more than 2,500 autoclaves and ovens worldwide — a great many of them on equipment ASC did not build. Recipe-driven, safety-interlocked, and producing a batch record that survives an audit years later.

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Why it exists

A SCADA package does not know what a cure is.

CPC is written specifically for thermal processing. It holds your cure recipes, drives the cycle from the lagging thermocouple, proves the vacuum circuit before it starts, and refuses to open a door that still has pressure behind it.

Recipe management

Versioned recipes with electronic approval and full revision history. The cycle that ran is the cycle that was approved, and you can prove it.

Lagging-thermocouple control

The cycle follows the slowest part in the load, so every part in the batch meets specification — not just the one nearest the fan.

Vacuum integrity

A six-step pre-run check and continuous in-cycle leak detection on every port. A bag failure is alarmed when it happens, not found at inspection.

Interlocked safety

Door locking proved against vessel pressure, redundant over-temperature trips, and an emergency stop path independent of the software.

Audit-ready records

Tamper-evident batch data with a 21 CFR Part 11-style audit trail. Formatted for AMS2750 and Nadcap review rather than for our convenience.

Fits your plant

OPC UA and MES integration, secure remote access for diagnostics, and retrofit onto third-party equipment of almost any age.

Three tiers

One process record, whichever you run

New installations ship on Appward. Multi-site operations run Enterprise. And CPC Legacy remains fully supported for operators who prefer the platform their team already knows — we are not in the business of forcing an upgrade.

New

CPC on Appward

New · current platform

Our current-generation platform, built on Appward. Browser-based operation, modular apps for recipe, scheduling, maintenance and reporting, and a deployment path that does not require a rip-and-replace of your control panel.

  • Browser-based — no client install on the shop floor
  • Modular apps: recipe, scheduling, maintenance, reporting
  • Live cure monitoring from any authorised device
  • Role-based access with full electronic signature
  • Ships as standard on all new ASC equipment
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Scale

CPC Enterprise

Multi-cell · multi-site

A supervisory layer across every autoclave, oven and press on the site — including machines from three different original manufacturers — so a part carries one traceable record regardless of which cell cured it.

  • One recipe library authored and approved once
  • Central scheduling across mixed equipment
  • Unified batch record format site-wide
  • Fleet-level reporting and utilisation data
  • Integrates with MES and quality systems
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Supported

CPC Legacy

Proven · still supported

The platform many of our customers have run for a decade or more. Still maintained, still supplied, still supported — with spares and engineering cover. If it does what you need, there is no reason to change it.

  • Full spares and engineering support maintained
  • Familiar interface — no operator retraining
  • Runs on existing panel hardware
  • Upgrade path to Appward whenever you choose
  • No forced migration, no end-of-life cliff
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Safety by design

The control system is a safety system.

On an autoclave, the software is what stands between an operator and a vessel holding 25 bar at 425°C. We treat it that way.

  • Door interlock proving — the lock is verified against measured vessel pressure, not inferred from a valve position
  • Redundant over-temperature — an independent trip path that does not rely on the control loop
  • Emergency stop independence — hardwired, not a software command
  • Oxygen monitoring where the resin system and your insurer require it
  • Alarm discipline — a short, meaningful alarm list, because an operator cannot triage forty simultaneous warnings
Safety hub
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Questions we are asked

Before you specify

Can CPC run on equipment you did not build?
Yes — that is a large part of what we do. See AnyOEM Retrofit". We have put CPC onto autoclaves from most of the major manufacturers and onto machines whose maker no longer exists.
Do we have to move off CPC Legacy?
No. Legacy remains fully supported with spares and engineering cover. We will tell you honestly when a specific component is becoming hard to source, but there is no end-of-life cliff and no forced migration.
What does Appward change for the operator?
The cycle runs the same way. What changes is access: the interface is browser-based, so supervisors and quality can see a live cure from a desk without standing at the panel, and the reporting apps replace the spreadsheet most sites keep alongside their controls.
How long does a control upgrade take?
Typically two to four weeks on site per vessel, plannable inside a shutdown. The pressure envelope is not touched, so no vessel requalification is required.
Will it satisfy our Nadcap audit?
CPC produces the instrumentation, survey and batch-record evidence an AMS2750 audit asks for. The accreditation is yours to hold, but we have supported a good number of customers through it and we know what the auditor will open first.

See a cure run live.

We will walk you through a real cycle on CPC — recipe approval, pre-run vacuum check, lagging-TC control and the record it produces at the end.

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