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Paints, Inks & Chemicals
 
 
Brightening the worlds of both consumers and businesses, the Chemicals, Paint, and Ink industry must navigate obstacles of costs, quality, and regulatory compliance to stay afloat in an extremely competitive market. Selerant's web-based PLM solution, DevEX provides Chemicals, Paint, and Ink companies with the ability to easily create, organize, and maintain customer specifications. These customer specifications can be customized and include sections such as formulation, packaging, manufacturing instructions, labeling, and marketing information. These specifications can not only keep corporations organized, but enable developers to adhere to the customer targets. Once the targets are met, developers can create samples, with DevEX automatically managing the sample lifecycle process. DevEX equips corporations to go global in more ways than one. Developers can ensure regulatory compliance throughout development by running Regulatory Calculations. The Legal Department can simplify Compliance Management by managing groups of countries as a single group to the most stringent level of regulations. DevEX provides the Chemicals, Paint, and Ink industry with the tools for:· Formulation tools for rapid product prototyping· Check Danger and hazard calculations while formulating· Specifications to organize, control, and manage the product data· Generate compliance documentation from the formula database integrated with standardized regulatory templates· Sample Management with sample shipment and customer feedback · Formula Optimizer to recalculate the formula to a target
For a complete listing of DevEX features and benefits for the Paints, Chemicals, and Ink industry.
 
Challenges
DevEXSolution
Create products to meet the specific demands of customers and consumers
  Configurable product requests criteria
  Analysis of customer specifications throughout development
  Product Portfolio
Effectively formulating and using past formulas
  Formula optimization tools
  Formula versioning and trial management
  Target formulation
  Formula batching
  Search past formulas based on key words including trial notes
Maintain Regulatory Compliance
    Automatic product information integration
  Automatic regulatory alerts
  Template-driven documentation with multi-language functionality
  Document version management
Applying the Stage-Gate approach and technical project management
  Stage-Gate configurable workflow and detailed global project management system developed specifically for the R&D project management team
  Best of breed project management templates built on best practices
  Project progress and analysis dashboards