Benefits
of ProductVision
In this market, you must be able to rapidly
analyze what the customer wants and translate those needs into new
products. Sometimes several times a day. ProductVision
Formula Management
allows formulators to access past experiences and to rapidly create new
products based upon this information. Laboratory
calculation capabilities, such as solids percentage, volatile organic compounds (VOC),
and product costs are built-in.
Rapid prototyping of
products may be done using ProductVisions powerful "What-If" functionality.
With this, the formulator can eliminate non-viable formulations before going to the bench to
produce test batches. The Regulatory Compliance
features in ProductVision allow you to automatically create required
regulatory documents, such as Material Safety Data Sheets.
All of this in a user-friendly Windows environment that reduces
training time.
Features for Chemical Companies
"What If" Feature Allows You to Quickly Calculate Alternative Formulas
With ProductVision’s “What-If” analysis
tool, you can quickly prototype new products. You may set a target
property or cost value for a formula, “float” one or more components,
and have the system arrive at the correct composition to meet the
target.
Alternately, a formula’s composition can be directly edited and
ProductVision will recalculate and display the new formula properties.
Compare Recipes Side-by-Side to
Determine the Best Alternative
ProductVision allows you to
compare an unlimited number of formulas directly in a spread-sheet view
making comparisons of similar products a snap. The formula comparison
is “tabbed” to allow you to compare formula compositions, properties,
specifications, testing information, notes, alerts, and other
information directly.
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For further
study, you can quickly export some or all of the information to
Excel. You may use the raw material comparison feature to perform
similar studies for your raw materials.
Create Product Test Series Automatically Using
the Formula Design Module
ProductVision’s
Formula Design Module
allows you to create a series of
related formulations automatically to
streamline new product development projects. Using this, you
can vary the levels of existing raw materials, replace existing
materials with substitutes and make other necessary changes in a
large number of alternative formulations at the touch of a button.
Track Testing
and QC Requirements in the Integrated Testing Module
The Testing Module
is a powerful tool that allows you to enter extensive testing
information for raw material and formula. A single test entry may
include multiple test attributes, notes, and test results.
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The flexible design of the module makes it ideal for many different
types of tests including physical property, toxicological,
microbiological, clinical, and analytical tests. Test results
can be numeric, character, date, or logical (true/false). You
can set up a test to require as many test attributes and results
entries as necessary to fully define the test conditions, final
results and judgments (pass/fail).
Control Formula Creation and Revisions with Automated Approvals
ProductVision’s integrated
Workflow Module
greatly simplifies the execution and tracking of workflows that
are commonly encountered in product development. This may include
new product creation, reformulation projects, competitive analysis
studies and new/edited product formula approvals. ProductVision
allows you to integrate and optimize your business processes,
providing increased efficiency and accountability.
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Security
Features Control Access and Editing of Formulations
ProductVision security allows you to restrict who may view, create,
edit, delete, or print formulations. Formula access can be further
restricted by formula type, location (entity) and status
(“Experimental”, “Production”, etc.).
This ensures that only
qualified employees are able to view and/or modify your formula
information.
Fully Integrated Regulatory
Compliance
The ProductVision
Regulatory Compliance Module greatly simplifies compliance with
hazardous communication regulations. ProductVision automatically
generates raw material and formula-driven Material Safety Data
Sheets (MSDSs), product labels and other regulatory documents. The
system fully supports all current US and EU reporting requirements.
Input of required resource information is simplified by using our
integration to the Ariel Insight chemical property database.
Browser-based access to finished regulatory documents is easily
accomplished with the
Regulatory Distribution Module.
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Example Safety Data
Sheet |

Browser-based
Regulatory Distribution |
All Changes to
Information in ProductVision are Recorded for Future Reference
All changes made to an item are
logged by the system. Details of the change
include the user who made the change, the date and time, and exactly
what was changed on an item.
ProductVision allows you to prevent future changes to be made to
a finished formula by assigning a “locked” status to the item or by
moving the item to a non-editable Entity or Security Type.

"My Work"
and "My Recent Work" Buttons Cut Development Time
ProductVision
has two buttons which help you streamline your development tasks.
The “My Recent Work” button displays previously opened items in
chronological order. This sort order of items on the window can be
changed by clicking on the column header. Displayed items can be opened
simply by dragging-and-dropping them onto the desktop.
The “My Work” button
allows you to create a “to-do” list of items that you want to work on
within ProductVision. You can enter comments
about pending work and even assign items contained in your work cabinet
to another ProductVision user.
With proper security
rights, a manager can view “My Recent Work” and “My Work” entries for
any or all ProductVision users, if desired.
Single Source
for Product Information
ProductVision eliminates the
need for multiple systems (spreadsheets, databases, additional software packages) to
maintain product formulation,
characteristic, specification and costing information. ProductVision
gives the user a single source of information. With ProductVision there is one database
which holds all information concerning raw materials
and formulations, and that same integrated
system handles the automatic calculation of product properties, costs,
and regulatory information. Product
Developers have access to information
from their peers throughout the company, thus
chemists and others work
together as a team.
ProductVision Includes Extensive Reporting
ProductVision has many standard reports which allow you to view your
raw material, formula composition and property information, as well
as allowing you to create your own custom reports using our HTML
reporting tool.
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Standard Formula
Master Report |

Example User Created
Product Specification |
Some ProductVision Users in the Chemical Industry Include:
Eastman Chemical
Company
Elementis - The Rheox Group
Emerald Performance Materials
EMCO Chemical
Distributors, Inc.
Infineum
International, Ltd.
Johnson Polymer
Noveon, Inc.
Resolution Specialty Materials
Modules
Used in the Chemical Industry Include:
Formula Management
Auditing
Data Transfer
Projects
Workflow
Regulatory Compliance
European Regulatory Compliance
Regulatory Distribution
Ariel Interface
Testing
Samples
Formula Design
OLE Automation/Events
Guidelines and Restrictions |