The Formula Design Module (FD) allows you to quickly generate any number of test formulas, containing a common base raw material or formula, and varying combinations of additional ingredients.  For example, you could create a group of related paint formulas which contains a specific white base formula and various combinations of tints.  The formula design module automatically creates the desired formulas much more quickly than you could manually using the Formula “Save As” option.

Flexible Designer Lets You Control Formula Creation

The Design tab allows you to specify details about the formulas you are creating, including the number of design points, additional components, and base formulas/resource components. 

Several Options are Available

You can enter raw material amounts in percentage or an absolute amount in a chosen unit of measure.  You may choose to "expand" the base formula during the creation of the formulas.  You can enter more than one base formula and the system will create formulas for each base/design point combination.  For example, if four design points are defined for two bases, eight formulas will be created (4 design points times 2 bases).  You also can choose to create duplicate formulas for each design point.  This is useful if you plan on making other changes to the formulas after they are created and you want to use the same starting formula or if you want to run statistics.  By default, the routine will only create one unique formula for each design point.