Preventing computer from going to sleep

Our main production software (IQue 5.5) is screwed up if the computer goes to sleep. We put in an order for 10 mac minis running mavericks and then the new mini got announced the very next day and there is no stock left on the old machines and we were forced to try it with yosemite. We got one system and set it up on one guinea pig, and so far the only real problem is that yosemite no longer has an option to set system sleep to "never" and it keeps sleeping at random points while the user is working and kicks him out of IQue.
Is there some way that we can get the (new dual-core i7 at 3.0GHZ) mac mini to never sleep?

For what it's worth, I've had that hpdot4d process showing up ever since I set up my HP officejet 5610 on my Mac, and I'm still running 10.4. I'm pretty sure this is an HP problem, not an Apple problem...
--John

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