precision fermentation process variable precision fermentation setpoint process variable An information content entity that represents a collection of configurable control settings for a fermentation system, which is realized as configuration input used to regulate a fermentation process by specifying operational setpoints, controller parameters, target values, and other mode-dependent control parameters in a bioreactor or fermentation system during the process. A decision was made to classify this as a information content entity rather than realizable entity (a realizable entity that inheres in a system and is realized in processes of controlling or regulating a process, serving as a parameter or setting that affects or determines the behavior, operation, or outcome of that process) as the intention was to emphasize the informational role rather than physical realisation of the control. A setpoint process variable may vary depending on the selected fermentation operational mode (e.g. batch, fed-batch, continuous) and are realized through instrument or system configuration. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7258-9596 parameter operational parameter operational setting REPR:InstrumentSetting