Formulations development
Common Challenges
- Managing the long process of developing a new formulation/product.
- Improving the performance of an existing formulation/product in a timely manner.
- Replacing supply chain ingredients of existing formulations/products.
- Data is highly multi-dimensional and requires long and tedious experimentation cycles to obtain it.
- Too many experiments and iterations to reach the desired performance target. Waste of time and resources.
- Lost information. Not every result is recorded, leading to less than perfect predictive models and waste of time and resources.
The value proposition of MaterialsZone
- One platform, all the data, all the insights, all the stakeholders (R&D, scale-up, manufacturing QC, supply chain alternatives selection).
- Easily applied AI/ML visualizations, insights and predictability.
- No loss of knowledge.
- Cut the number of experiments and iterations to optimize the formulation performance through design of experiments. This results in reduced R&D costs and faster time to market.
- Focus on parameters (variables) that really matter.
- Rapid accumulation of knowledge and predictability.
- Easy application of AI/ML visualizations, insights and predictions.
What does it take from a Materials Informatics Platform (MIP)?
- Flexible data model that supports multiple dimensions, multiple types of data and any hierarchical nesting and association inherent in materials data.
- Flexibility to accumulate data incrementally and continuously while the AI/ML insights and visualizations update as well.
- Easily applied AI/ML visualizations, insights and predictability.
- Simple workflow (figure 1) to obtain the desired results in the shortest way possible.
MaterialsZone solution for formulation development
Formulations are everywhere - polymers, building materials, composites, etc. Formulation development is the basis of companies developing materials-based products. In formulation-based products, usually the product performance depends hardly on the product formulation and less on processing.
Typically, designing or developing a new formulation is triggered by new product specifications to meet. Along with product specification comes constraints on the materials to use, processing constraints, etc.
To avoid trial-and-error methodology and stick with a data-driven approach, MaterialsZone has developed an efficient workflow (figure 1) for formulation development that will reduce your R&D efforts and significantly reduce the number of experiments and iterations needed to reach the desired formulation.

Other MaterialsZone solutions include:
- Materials data management
- Design of experiment
- Materials development
- Materials selection – supply chain
- Manufacturing scale-up
- Innovative Plastics
- Materials manufacturing QC (six-sigma)
- Digital materials/product catalog