Fbs system

Compact, modular structured small sewage treatment plant with minimal technical components and high-quality clog-free airlift-pump for sludge.

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Fluidzsed Bed System; FBS Plant, fbs system.

No calibration required as this is done automatically. Ventilation with durable membrane technology. Hose connection pieces made of stainless steel (no fracturing possible). In the secondary sedimentation chamber, the cleaned wastewater is separated from the bio mass by sedimentation. At preprogrammed intervals, an airlift-pump returns sedimented biomass as surplus sludge back into the pre-chamber as programmed.

Fluidzsed bed system – FBS plant

Clearfox® FBS sewage treatment plant

Fully biological fluidised bed small sewage treatment plant ready to connect

The clearfox FBS system

Compact plastic small sewage treatment plant

Quick and easy installation

Minimal use of technology

Economic and reliable

Best outlet values guaranteed

Technology with long service life

Small maintenance effort

Application: domestic – municipal – industrial treatment
retrofitting: yes
manufactured in: germany

Functionality:

The plant always includes:

Primary cleaning stage

Fluidised bed reactor

Secondary sedimentation chamber

In the FBS there are free floating support medium (small plastic form parts) or particles (produced from UV-stabilised polyethylene), on which bacteria grow. A biological layer (micro-organic colonisation) forms on this medium after a start-up period. The biofilm which consists mainly of aerobic organisms, transforms the organic contaminants contained in the wastewater into sedimentary and mineral substances. The wastewater is serrated intermittently and the aeration system installed in the tank supplies the organisms with sufficient oxygen and in addition, the aeration process causes a current that moves the fliud containing the biofilm medium and the entire content of the reactor is blended.

This technology requires no rotating parts in the wastewater. Return sludge is transported via maintenance-free airlift-pump, operated with compressed air. The blower supplying the oxygen is placed outside the container near the control cabinet.

Mechanical cleaning stage:

Prior to the FBR biological stage, the raw wastewater is separated in this first stage by either mechanical separation or primary settlement depending on the project size. Particles in the wastewater that are smaller than 3mm pass through the screen and enter the FBS. The natural wastewater accumulation flows freely through the plant. An integrated restriction valve controls wastewater flow to prevent shock loading and to make sure that the flow is equalised in order to optimise the physical and biological processes.

Fluidized bed reactor:

In the fluidized bed container there are free floating support media (small plastic form parts) or particles (produced from UV-stabilised polyethylene), on which bacteria grow. A biological layer (micro-organic colonisation) forms on this medium after a start-up period. The biofilm which consists mainly of aerobic organisms, transforms the organic contaminants contained in the wastewater into sedimentary and mineral substances. The wastewater is aerated intermittently and the aeration system installed in the tank, supplies the organisms with sufficient oxygen. The aeration also causes a current that moves the fliud containing the biofilm medium and the entire content of the reactor is blended.

This technology requires no rotating parts in the wastewater. Sludge is transported via a maintenance-free airlift-pump, operated with compressed air back to the primary settlement zone. The blower supplying the oxygen is placed outside the container near the control cabinet.

Secondary sedimentation chamber:

In the secondary sedimentation chamber, the cleaned wastewater is separated from the bio mass by sedimentation. At preprogrammed intervals, an airlift-pump returns sedimented biomass as surplus sludge back into the pre-chamber as programmed.

Benefits of fluidized bed plants:

Low sludge volume

Good cleaning performance

Good cleaning performance even with underload

Simple retrofitting possible

Maintenance required only once per year

Proven system

The main advantage of a clearfox fluidised bed procedure is the high biomass concentration (>21gts/L) which allows for a small reactor design. This saves costs while reaching a high cleaning performance.

Certificates:

The clearfox FBS in modular construction

Ready to connect and fully biological application

Compact, modular structured small sewage treatment plant with minimal technical components and high-quality clog-free airlift-pump for sludge. No calibration required as this is done automatically. Ventilation with durable membrane technology. Hose connection pieces made of stainless steel (no fracturing possible).

The control unit is integrated into the ventilated manhole pit. Therefore no hose laying in the ground required.

Only an inlet, outlet and a power cable (earth cable 3×1,5mm2) must be connected. No further connection work required!

Inlet and outlet openings prepared for KG DN100 (high-quality EPDM-gaskets already integrated into the tank). The monolith tanks are made of high-quality PE in rotational moulding in one single piece and do not need to be screw-connected!

The vertically positioned rib structure ensures good and ergonomic blending in the reactor. The tanks are equipped in their basic configuration with a manhole pit extension for an inlet depth of

The tank covers (load-bearing up to 200 kg) are screw-tightened (childproof version).

The plant is CE conforming and includes EN 12566-3 test certificates for efficiency, water-tightness and fracture resistance. The plant consists of two interconnected tanks which can be placed as one piece into the building pit.

All technical components of the plant are pre-assembled in the factory ready to be connected (plug and play). The tanks are equipped with additional reinforcements made of stainless steel. Product: fully biological FBS small sewage treatment plant

Dimensions and technical data:

1 PE tank, 3500 litres

Chamber 1: sludge storage and buffer

Chamber 2: fluidised bed bio reactor

Chamber 3: secondary sedimentation with sludge chute

Individual weight: approx. 220 kg

Dimensions: 2430 x 1215 x 1710 mm (l x w x h)

Separation of the chambers by means of partitions

Required base area:

2430 x 1220 mm

Max. Inlet depth: 1000mm below area surface

Access opening tank: 600mm

Plant size: 4 – 5 PE (residents)

Power supply: earth cable with 230 VAC, 3 x 1.5mm2, installed by the customer

Fuse 10A, residual current operated circuit breaker

Control cabinet: control module integrated in manhole pit

Connected power:

50W

Outlet class: C (according to german classification)

Continuous improvement culture

Success at fortive doesn't just happen. We have a proven system for achieving it, based on the concept of continuous improvement at the heart of our values. We call it the fortive business system (FBS).

"every single day, in my role, I learn something new. I learn how to do things better."

Gideon fick, FBS leader, gilbarco veeder-root

FBS is the foundation of everything we do. It guides how we grow our portfolio, how we invent new products, how we drive strong results across our businesses, and how we develop our people. It inspires us to be and do better.

Every fortive employee has the opportunity to learn and apply the powerful FBS toolkit to create real value for our customers and shareholders. It shapes a dynamic environment of unending learning and growth. It is the cornerstone of our shared culture and a powerful competitive advantage. It drives every aspect of our work. We use FBS to guide our decisions, assess what’s working and what’s not, and accelerate breakthrough innovation.

Background

FBS was born in the mid-1980s, when jacobs vehicle systems, a fortive company, faced intensifying competition using lean manufacturing principles. This focused improvement initiative exceeded expectations and evolved into a set of best practices and processes now known as FBS.

At fortive, FBS powers a dynamic cycle. Our extraordinary teams are inspired by proven tools and processes that drive continuous improvement, innovations that serve our customers and superior performance for our shareholders. Superior performance and high expectations create a strong culture energized by opportunities for limitless learning and growth, which attracts extraordinary people to continue the cycle.

"our teams are relentlessly focused on driving improvement and winning through FBS. We continue to demonstrate the power and use of FBS across our company – from improving product development to a leadership offering that builds extraordinary teams. We will continue to drive results through our passion to always be better."

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Driving results

Our 2016 performance demonstrates our continued commitment to always doing and being better. Through the use of FBS our teams improved quality and on-time delivery, and gained share in their marketplaces. We held our first ever company-wide CEO kaizen event, with 17 teams driving breakthrough results to exceed our customers’ expectations. We also opened our fortive business system university, which supports the development of our employees and teams around the globe as they learn and deploy FBS to deliver results.

Future

Of course, this deep commitment to continuous improvement means that FBS itself is always evolving. After all, our customers, and the technologies they depend on, are moving faster than ever before. Fortive leaders at every level are piloting new methods to manage risk and increase the pace of breakthrough innovation, so we are ready to lead our customers to new and better solutions and services.

Fbs system

This tutorial shows how you can use fbs to create a simple python GUI and an associated installer:

You can follow this tutorial on windows, mac or linux. Only python 3.5 or 3.6 will work. Other versions will likely give errors.

Create a virtual environment in the current directory:

Activate the virtual environment:

The remainder of the tutorial assumes that the virtual environment is active.

Install the required libraries (most notably, fbs and pyqt5 ):

(if this produces errors, try pip install wheel first.)

You can also use qt for python instead of pyqt. To do this, simply write pyside2 instead of pyqt5 throughout this tutorial. For the above, use pip install pyside2==5.12.0 .

Execute the following command to start a new fbs project:

This asks you a few questions. You can for instance use tutorial as the app name and your name as the author.

The command creates a new folder called src/ in your current directory. This folder contains the minimum configuration for a bare-bones pyqt app.

To run the basic pyqt application from source, execute the following command:

This shows a (admittedly not very exciting) window. Screenshots on windows/mac/ubuntu:

Source code of the sample app

Let's now take a look at the source code of the pyqt app that was generated. It is at src/main/python/main.Py :

The important steps are highlighted as comments. They're the only boilerplate that's required. In the middle of the code, you can see that a window is being created, resized and then shown.

We want to turn the source code of our app into a standalone executable that can be run on your users' computers. In the context of python applications, this process is called "freezing".

Use the following command to turn the app's source code into a standalone executable:

This creates the folder target/tutorial . You can copy this directory to any other computer (with the same OS as yours) and run the app there! Isn't that awesome?

Desktop applications are normally distributed by means of an installer. On windows, this would be an executable called tutorialsetup.Exe . On mac, mountable disk images such as tutorial.Dmg are commonly used. On linux, .Deb files are common on ubuntu, .Rpm on fedora / centos, and .Pkg.Tar.Xz on arch.

Fbs lets you generate each of the above packages via the command:

Depending on your operating system, this may require you to first install some tools. Please read on for OS-specific instructions.

Before you can use the installer command on windows, please install NSIS and add its installation directory to your PATH environment variable.

The installer is created at target/tutorialsetup.Exe . It lets your users pick the installation directory and adds your app to the start menu. It also creates an entry in windows' list of installed programs. Your users can use this to uninstall your app. The following screenshots show these steps in action:

On mac, the installer command generates the file target/tutorial.Dmg . When your users open it, they see the following volume:

To install your app, your users simply drag its icon to the applications folder (also shown in the volume).

On linux, the installer command requires that you have fpm. You can for instance follow these instructions to install it.

Depending on your linux distribution, fbs creates the installer at target/tutorial.Deb , . Pkg.Tar.Xz or . Rpm . Your users can use these files to install your app with their respective package manager.

A more interesting example

We will now create a more powerful example. Here's what it looks like on windows:

When you click on the button in the window, a new quote is fetched from the internet and displayed above.

Before you can run this example, you need to install the python requests library. To do this, type in the following command:

The source code of the new app consists of two files:

Please copy the former over the existing file in src/main/python/ , and the latter into the new directory src/main/resources/base/ . If you are using pyside2 instead of pyqt, you have to replace all occurrences of pyqt5 in main.Py by pyside2 .

Once you have followed these steps, you can do fbs run (or fbs freeze etc.) as before.

The new app uses the following code to fetch quotes from the internet:

You can see that it uses the requests library we just installed above. Feel free to open build-system.Fman.Io/quote in the browser to get a feel for what it returns. Its data comes from a public database.

The app follows the same basic steps as before. It instantiates an application context and ends by calling appctxt.App.Exec_() :

What's different is what happens in between:

The first line uses get_resource(. ) to obtain the path to styles.Qss . This is a QSS file, qt's equivalent to CSS. The next line reads its contents and sets them as the stylesheet of the application context's .App .

Fbs ensures that get_resource(. ) works both when running from source (i.E. During fbs run ) and when running the compiled form of your app. In the former case, the returned path is in src/main/resources . In the latter, it will be in your app's installation directory. Fbs handles the corresponding details transparently.

The next-to-last line instantiates mainwindow . This new class sets up the text field for the quote and the button. When the button is clicked, it changes the contents of the text field using _get_quote() above. You can find the full code in main.Py .

As already mentioned, you can use fbs run to run the new app. But here's what's really cool: you can also do fbs freeze and fbs installer to distribute it to other computers. Fbs includes the requests dependency and the styles.Qss file automatically.

Fbs lets you use python and qt to create desktop applications for windows, mac and linux. It can create installers for your app, and automatically handles the packaging of third-party libraries and data files. These things normally take weeks to figure out. Fbs gives them to you in minutes instead.

Fbs's manual explains the technical foundation of the steps in this tutorial. Read it to find out more about fbs's required directory structure, dependency management, handling of data files, custom build commands, API and more.

If you have not used pyqt before: it's the library that allowed us in the above examples to use qt (a GUI framework) from python. Fbs's contribution is not to combine python and qt. It's to make it very easy to package and deploy pyqt-based apps to your users' computers. For an introduction to pyqt, see here.

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The forex breakout system can be traded manually.

The breakout trading system

To understand why breakout trading works, you’ll need to understand what signaling is, and why it developed.

The point to these signals is that they are not fixed and formulae based. (if they were, it would exactlybe covert communications would it?), but there is enough communication so that reliable informationcan be gathered and used to make a decision.These signal times are the pre-market hours; the hours before the major markets open. They providethe information about the direction the market is going to take, and when that direction will bedecided.

This information will help you to follow the market makers. Remember the forex market is a $3 trilliondollar a day market – your trading isn’t going to affect the market (unless you work for a bank!) this will illustrate it more – this is generated by the “FBS breakout” indicator.

The solid green box shows the pre-market times, and the high and low values reached during

That time: the signaling

• the extension to the box shows the rest of the trading day.

• the blue line is the bid line (normally you would have candles, but this is done for clarity)

• quite simply, when the signaling range is breached, follow the market

The trading day around the world

These signaling times occur at least 3 times during the trading day: the asia/tokyo market open the london market open and the new york market open.

Market pre-open time market time

Asia 22:00 – 01:00 00:00 – 09:00

London 04:00 – 08:00 08:00 – 17:00

NY 10:00 – 14:00 13:00 – 22:00

Initial stop loss settings

You can have either a fixed stop loss, or it can place the stops on the opposite side of the signal range. See note 4 and the examples for more about this.

The default is to use the opposite side, and if this is true, it will override the fixed pip setting.

This is only activated when the trade is in profit by at least the size specified here. This is a ratchet type stop loss adjustment, and is only adjusted in the direction of the trade

This is a fixed pip take profit setting

Default is zero as we believe that is can reduce the profitability, but remember, nobody ever went broke by taking profits. See the examples and note 6 and note 8

This picture is of a single box with no offset pips.

13 things FBS should learn from FCS

The lower half of division I does a bunch of things that could make the upper half better.

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1. FCS has a BIG, FAT PLAYOFF.

The FCS postseason is a 24-team playoff, in which eight teams get byes into the equivalent of college basketball’s sweet 16. Every conference that wants a reserved bid can have one, meaning a championship path for almost every program. It’s nothing like FBS, where practically the only playoff-eligible teams appear to be the 65 in power conferences (plus notre dame).

A four-team FBS playoff feels ultra-inclusive because of that level’s long history of having either no playoff or a two-team playoff, but it’s hard to argue eight or 12 would wreck everything when FCS has 24. (not to mention division II has 28 and division III has 32.)

There’s no playoff size that won’t make people furious. But the FCS playoff is a blast in ways that should carry lessons for FBS’ powers: having a bunch of teams involved is fun and inherently fairer. It also means there are no FCS national championship disputes, something FBS hasn’t been able to avoid even by installing its own little playoff.

2. Those FCS playoff games are on campuses.

The FCS playoff system has every game until the final being played on the campus of the higher-ranked team, rewarding good teams with revenue and packed crowds — as opposed to lifeless, faraway NFL stadiums.

3. In FBS, cowardly teams play teams from lower levels and get clowned for it. In FCS, brave, valorous teams play teams from higher levels.

There is honor (and money) in being the sacrificial lamb in a guarantee game. The FBS power gets made fun of for hosting an FCS team, but the FCS team often needs that money to meet its budget.

What can FBS learn from this? FBS teams should balance out their FCS games by scheduling the miami dolphins.

Of course, FCS teams play DII teams sometimes (let me direct you to this davidson-guilford game that had a 91-61 final score and one team getting 964 yards of offense). But that just continues the flow of cash from FBS on downward. If your 63-scholarship team has to go to tuscaloosa, you’ve earned an easy game.

4. Ole miss or mississippi state should’ve copied FCS alcorn state’s strategy of “having steve mcnair.”

Both would’ve had better years in the ‘90s if they’d landed the mount olive, mississippi native.

Mcnair is an example of the broader point: FCS has good football players. This is division I football, with good teams and good games — as people often forget until the FCS quarterfinals are on TV at the same time as some bowl game neither team cares about. The best players in the country aren’t generally choosing to play FCS ball, but the level has produced plenty of NFL stars.

5. FCS is open to a broad range of schemes.

Similar to how FBS is more schematically diverse than the NFL, and how high school is more schematically diverse (if you take a wide enough lens) than any college level.

In FCS, it’s not weird when regular public schools spend whole games running nothing but the triple option. Georgia southern built a bona fide dynasty in FCS, and in recent years, other flexbone-style teams and their offshoots have enjoyed a lot of success.

Like any other level, FCS can be a laboratory for cool football ideas, and there’s less of a stigma against certain schemes.

6. FCS has fewer regular season games (11, not 12), helping preserve players for actual playoffs.

Would you give up a regular season game every year if it meant a full postseason that matters matters?

7. Seriously, FCS has teams in places like montana, maine, and the dakotas that host playoff games.

Some regions of the country are almost entirely ignored in the FBS ranks, save for the one night a year when a few people watching football at 11:57 p.M. ET realize laramie, wyoming is hosting a decent game.

In FCS, overlooked regions can have central roles. That could never happen in FBS, where a small playoff and difficult recruiting geography keep teams from less talent-rich areas out of the hunt.

8. Despite having a massive playoff, a few FCS conferences have found different ways to make their seasons ultra-high-stakes.

The ivy league often has some of the best teams in FCS, but it’s just decided not to play in the playoffs. For teams there, winning the ivy league is enough to be more than happy, and that makes every ivy league game have a lot on the line. It gives their students and players something exciting to get into before they head off to law school or mckinsey.

The MEAC and SWAC, the two FCS leagues of hbcus, send their champions to atlanta’s celebration bowl, which happens during the FCS playoffs. The winner (it’s probably gonna be north carolina A&T) is as much a national champion of something as the playoff winner (it’s probably gonna be north dakota state).

Power 5 coaches, ads, and fans tend to be deeply obsessed with the college football playoff, even though if you’re not alabama or clemson, you’re probably not winning it.

These FCS leagues have found equally holy grails for themselves, and why not? Sports should be fun. As long as FBS’ playoff shuts out group of 5 teams, maybe it’d be fun for those schools to follow the hbcus and stage their own title game.

A daily-ish mini-column on the college football thing of the day, with some other stuff too.

9. FBS teams can learn from FCS schools not to schedule north dakota state.

You see, FCS schools usually have no choice. But FBS schools do, and they should look at what’s happened to their FCS brethren, then decide to play someone else.

FBS schools that have scheduled NDSU have lost repeatedly. In any given year, NDSU would be liable to whoop most of FBS. In 2018, for example, I deduced only about 30 teams from the top level would be favorites against the bison.

10. FCS schools usually don’t overdo it with enormous stadiums they can’t fill.

Both levels have smaller teams that rent out massive NFL stadiums and then do their best to fill them, but FBS also has a lot more big campus venues that often look . Ambitious.

Even when cal is decent, like in 2018, they can still average about 20,000 empty seats. It makes for a cavernous, quiet atmosphere.

That same year, the five leading FCS schools put between 18,000 and 25,000 butts in the seats. Four of those five stadiums seat between 19,000 and 25,000 people.

It’s a lot more fun to have a 19,000-person sellout at NDSU’s fargodome than to have a half-full stadium for anybody. And if the home team is bad, way less real estate is going to waste.

11. However, FCS stadiums are much more ambitious with their turf colors.

Do you think boise state’s blue is out there? Let me introduce you to eastern washington’s dystopian red field, which appears to have been stained with blood .

. And central arkansas’ purple field, which looks like the set of a PBS show:

You probably already knew about these, but that doesn’t make it any less bizarre, if you think about it. The teams at the bottom of FBS might as well at least make their playing surfaces interesting.

12. About 30 FBS teams should take after FCS by . Literally dropping down to FCS.

About half the group of 5 lacks the resources to ever seriously compete in FBS and lacks the fan interest to make it clear why they’re still trying. A bunch of schools don’t really meet the FBS requirement of 15,000 fans in attendance for the average home game, but get away with falling short by playing accounting tricks nobody cares about.

If you’re not winning, people aren’t bothering to watch, and you’ve got few prospects of ever getting better, then why not play at a less demanding level? Storing uconn-like substances in FCS would also make FBS’ quality of play better.

Schools could save a fortune. FCS schools can only give out 63 scholarships (or less in some leagues), while FBS schools give out 85. FCS schools also have smaller coaching and support staffs. Fewer mouths to feed means a better experience for the people who are actually there.

13. Hbcus have the best bands, and lots of hbcus are in FCS.

Python and qt:
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Python and qt are great for writing cross-platform desktop apps.
But packaging, code signing, installers and automatic updates are a pain.
Fbs solves these problems and saves you months of development.

Python qt GUI

Fbs is the fastest way to create a python GUI. It solves common pain points such as packaging and deployment. Based on python and qt, fbs is a lightweight alternative to electron.

Easy packaging

Unlike other solutions, fbs makes packaging easy. Create an installer for your app in seconds and distribute it to your users – on windows, mac and linux!

Open source

Fbs's source code is available on github. You can use it for free in open source projects licensed under the GPL. Commercial licenses are also offered. More information below.

Battle-tested

Applications built with fbs have been installed on tens of thousands of machines. It encapsulates years of experience. This ensures your app runs on your users' computers.

Get started

The best place to get started with fbs is the tutorial. All you need is a text editor and python 3. In 15 minutes, you will create a simple app and an installer. Everybody who takes the tutorial says it's a breeze!

Licensing

You can use fbs for free in open source projects that are licensed under the GPL. If you don't want to open your code up to the public, you can purchase a commercial license for EUR 449 per developer:

If you have questions about licensing fbs, please contact .

When using fbs, there are two other projects whose licensing terms you need to obey: qt and one of its python bindings. Qt can typically be used for free under the terms of the LGPL. On the other hand, the pyqt python binding is only available under the GPL. To comply with its license, you need to open source your application itself under the GPL, or buy a commercial pyqt license. You can avoid this by using pyside2 instead of pyqt, but support for it in fbs is not yet as mature as for pyqt.

Under the hood

Instead of reinventing the wheel, fbs builds on well-tested solutions: pyqt to use qt from python, pyinstaller for packaging, NSIS for windows installers, .Deb files on ubuntu. With fbs, you don't have to spend weeks integrating these technologies. It addresses common tasks such as shipping resource files and accessing them from within your application. Finally, it solves edge cases that only occur on some users' systems and would take time to figure out yourself.

Background

Fbs open sources solutions that were originally implemented for the cross-platform file manager fman. Months of fman's development went into creating installers for the various operating systems, code signing and automatic updates. Fbs gives you the same results in minutes instead of months.

Tet-system approved FBS

Gibco tet-system approved FBS has been functionally tested to provide researchers with optimal control over their gene expression systems, thus minimizing challenges that can be posed by this type of reagent.

Functional, cell-based assays that detect the presence of tetracycline and its derivatives are used to select FBS that delivers the highest range of induction.

Why cell-based testing?

Provides confidence, convenience, and control over your research:

Higher sensitivity compared to analytical methods

Enables sensitivity in gene expression experiments down to nanogram quantities of tetracycline

Detects the presence of tetracycline and tetracycline analogs (e.G., doxycycline)

Allows for greater control of inducible expression systems

Areas of research utilizing tetracycline-inducible system with FBS

ideal for researchers studying	example
neuroscience	produce GABAA receptors for electrophysiological study 1
cancer research	quantitatively control PVT1 expression by tet-on in bladder cancer 2 tetracycline-regulated shrna expression to apply to monocyte interaction 3
drug screening	establish cell line with inducible mglutamate receptor for drug screening 4
vaccine development	research for the safer vaccinia virus vaccines with tet-inducible system 5
gene editing	CRISPR/cas9-mediated control of NFAT5 6 and PVT1 and ANRIL 7

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“I require tight control of gene expression and I need to ensure genes are not expressed until tetracycline is added in, so tet-free is a requirement.”

– cancer researcher at US biotechnology company

Did you know?

Unintended expression can occur in very sensitive tet-inducible gene expression systems while using FBS. This happens because some lots of FBS contain residual amounts of the antibiotic tetracycline (tet) derived from animal treatment. It is important to use functionally tested FBS and don’t base your decisions solely on names like tet-free or tet-zero.

Using tet-system approved FBS is the most secure and shortest way for inducible expression systems

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For research use or further manufacturing use only. Serum and blood proteins are not for direct administration into humans or animals.

Priority software ® FBS

Facility billing system (FBS) is a fully integrated usage tracking and billing application designed especially for monitoring the chargeback recovery of facilities and service centers within a university or research institution.

Stop losing money!
Your services cost money. The longer it takes to collect your charges, the greater the chance for write-offs. FBS knows how your users are going to pay and automatically validates their funding before services are rendered.

Instant payments
FBS integrates with your institutional financial system to instantly transfer payments from your users to each of the facilities. Internal users can automatically encumber their usage and reconcile when the expenditure shows on the institution’s financials.

Internal or external
internal facility users (pay using the institutional financial system) are emailed with attached adobe acrobat (PDF) invoices. Their payments are pre-approved and debited directly from their specified account(s). External users (pay using a credit card or check) are sent paper invoices, past due reminders and their payments are tracked within the real-time accounts receivable feature. This invoicing workflow is very typical but can be easily adjusted to accommodate your needs.

Eliminate data entry
FBS can read data directly from your processing equipment (ex: DNA sequencer), point-of-sale (POS), existing database, excel spreadsheet or web form. Creating the invoices is then just a single click!

Center members
FBS can allow your center to subsidize member usage of shared facilities to maintain the same recharge rate to all users. Facility billing system (FBS) data sheet

Need scheduling?
FBS allows operators and users (optionally) to graphically schedule resource usage. FBS can even update their desktop calendar with a reminder. After the event time has completed, FBS can automatically charge for the booked time or can use this allocation as a “soft schedule” to be updated with actual time.

Flexible pricing
whether you are charging for products or services by quantity or time, FBS can provide the invoicing. Flexible billing options, including volume discounts, subsidies, and more.

Budget tracking
FBS allows you to establish a chargeback recovery plan for each facility and then monitor the progress throughout the budget period. If necessary, you can adjust your recharge rates at any time to more accurately reflect the cost.

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