ProductVision for the Paint, Coatings, Chemicals, and Ink Industries
Companies in the paint, coatings, chemicals, and ink industries face unique challenges that ProductVision is adept at addressing. Compliance with hazardous chemical regulations, including GHS, is a significant challenge. ProductVision meets this need by automating creating and distributing Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and product labels in various formats and languages. This process is streamlined through ProductVision's interfaces with industry-standard regulatory databases.
Rapid Customer Response and Product Development
Quickly analyzing customer requirements and translating them into new products is crucial in these industries. Developing new colors or modifying existing products for new applications, often multiple times daily, is a common need. ProductVision Formula Management enables formulators to leverage past experiences to create new products swiftly.
Manages the Entire Product Life-Cycle
ProductVision is a rapid product development tool that handles all aspects of product creation, from initial concept to retirement. Workflow features automate the formula approval process and approved formulas, and raw materials can be "locked" to prevent accidental changes. All formula revisions are automatically tracked and maintained, with historical formulas archived separately from production formulas.
Increases Formulator Productivity
ProductVision significantly reduces the effort required to create new products and enhance existing formulas. New raw materials and formulas can be copied from existing items. The flexible formula editor allows freeform entry of unlimited lines, including multiple levels of intermediate formulas, to manage even the most complex products.
Multi-level "where-used" and global component replacement features enable rapid and accurate substituting of obsolete ingredients. ProductVision automatically performs all property and cost calculations quickly and accurately, allowing formulators to focus on product creation and enhancement for quicker market release.
Streamlines New Product Development
With ProductVision's "What-If" Analysis, you can quickly prototype new products. Set a target property or cost value for a formula, "float" one or more components, and the system will determine the correct composition to meet the target. Alternatively, directly edit a formula's composition, and ProductVision will recalculate and display the new properties.
You can create and view an unlimited number of alternate formulas. You can also graph selected values for visual analysis. Save experimental formulas developed using "What-If" to the permanent formula file for future use.
You can also track development activities using projects and flexible workflow features to ensure all process steps follow your company's guidelines.
Improves Customer Response Time
ProductVision's powerful query tool lets you quickly locate existing products that match specific customer requests, providing better service. Internally, queries save time and money by quickly locating substitute resources. They also find formulas that can accept reworked materials. Additionally, queries identify items that meet specific property, cost, or component criteria.
Provides Detailed Product Costs
ProductVision gives you a true picture of your formula costs and helps price products for maximum long-term profitability. With line-by-line and overall formula losses, formulators can clearly define product costs. The cost simulation feature helps analyze the effects of anticipated cost changes by allowing temporary changes to formula compositions or costs.
Links to Other World-Class Software
ProductVision can share raw material and formula information with popular Manufacturing Resource Planning, financial, and plant and lab automation software packages. This integration eliminates duplicate data entry, reduces time to market, and improves information accuracy.
We invite you to contact us today to learn more about how ProductVision can exceed your organization's expectations and enhance your product development capabilities.
