From managing siloed data to navigating the complexity of diverse workflows and teams, companies in the chemicals & materials industry face significant challenges, which slow decision making and hinder productivity.
Data consistency is a major obstacle to being able to leverage data as a proprietary asset—that’s true for all industries. But it’s particularly difficult to manage the diversity of chemicals & materials workflows, which represent a multitude of scientific disciplines, including synthetic chemistry, polymer science, formulation, and process development.
Companies need to be able to make informed decisions fast. That includes the ability to visualize, analyze and collaborate across a wide variety of data sources, teams and locations, both cross-functionally and geographically. The chemicals & materials landscape adds layers of complexity, due to teams often being located around the globe and sometimes joined into one company through mergers and acquisitions. This can lead to different teams employing distinct workflows and point solutions, creating siloed data.
Plus, teams utilize complex research processes, which are not linear or standardized across the system. Frequently there are high levels of variability, where steps are not-searchable or comparable. The variety of stages of the process and actions happening within R&D makes it hard to assess and analyze the trees of experiments that lead down to a series of products. It’s hard to answer “why” one material performed better than another, and hard to link experiments together.
Add to these issues teams’ natural resistance to change and the result is a serious change management bottleneck leading to slower decision-making timelines, and negatively impacting both return on investment (ROI) and time to market.
Searching for a Solution
To address these challenges companies are searching for a single source of truth—a comprehensive solution that offers advanced data management capabilities and the expertise to apply AI / ML on their data.
It’s not enough to plug chemicals & materials data into a platform. A useful solution must be able to manage the diversity of data and processes that researchers navigate on a daily basis. Companies need technologies that are both scientifically smart and chemically aware. They need tools that know science, and that’s an impossible task unless the technology is developed by teams with equally deep scientific knowledge of the intricacies of specific domains of research.
Using a solution that understands the science and scientific workflows can help to provide standardization of the processes, making them searchable and repeatable, and giving consistent results. For example, imagine the ability to link related experiments containing data such as ingredients, processing parameters, and test results for easy comparison of data across the entire workflow. Teams also need simple and easy-to-use workflows and modern, accessible interfaces so that scientists can accurately and efficiently enter and review data, thereby organically encouraging adoption of the tools across the organization.
Discover the Dotmatics C&M Solution
Purpose-built for chemical & materials companies, the is equipped with configurable formulations, and an advanced workflow engine. With its focus on simplifying data intelligence, the Dotmatics Chemicals & Materials Solution helps researchers accelerate new product development by enabling data-driven research, simplifying project management, and reducing the complexities of research IT infrastructure.
Dotmatics Chemicals & Materials Solution the Dotmatics enterprise scientific platform
The Solution is built on , with a feature-set designed based on customer requests for most-wanted functionality, including:
Multiexperiment Work ows - Build experiment hierarchies for related formulations and tests, track genealogy through the hierarchy, link related experiments, and automate data flow to reduce manual errors and increase productivity—enabling you to focus on innovation
Process Capture - Design and define processes, including ingredients, amounts and process conditions to be done at the lab bench. Record a series of systematically varied processes to generate an array of products within a single experiment; enumerate options created by variant process parameters, build a process from preconfigured actions, set up to capture all the relevant parameters in a standardized format, capture detailed process steps, and maintain a comprehensive record of all experimental data. Processes are searchable and comparable Robust Inventory ManagementLeverage strong capabilities in inventory management to create full traceability of all formulation constituents and their properties, and simplify setup of workflows and applications.
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Luma Lab Connect Ready - Easily extended to to offer advanced instrument data capture and handling to eliminate manual data handling, increase accuracy and accelerate decision makin
Integrated Visualization Tools - Easyto-use analytics tools allow your project team to analyze and visualize its data.
Request Management - Request tests and other related work to be done with automated notification of the parties involved; relates results back to the formulation/product/sample where it was requested
Testing - A flexible testing regime is provided that accepts a variety of manual and file-based result data
Searching - Comprehensive searching that automatically connects ingredient, process, and test data so users can easily find data, spot trends, and make decisions.
Summary
Bringing to Life Real-World Benefits
With Dotmatics, scientists gather, understand, use, and share research data across locations, experiments and modalities to provide access to previously invisible possibilities. The Dotmatics Chemicals & Materials Solution is custom-designed to empower teams to gain insights, make informed decisions, and streamline workflows, ultimately driving greater efficiency and productivity. Key benefits include:
Implements work ow and roles - Adapt the Dotmatics platform to your ways of working (not the other way around . Simplifies end-user adoption and improves collaboration.
Logically connects all R&D data - With a comprehensive experiment concept, all relevant metadata are connected, allowing for simplified data capture and results analysis
Solves data management issue - With the Dotmatics platform being open, connect existing LIMS/ELN systems or existing third-party data repositories for full data interoperability.
Deep data insights - Easy-to-use analytics tools included in Dotmatics’ data visualization tools allow project teams to analyze and visualize their data.
nowledge sharing and reuse - A common platform for integrated decision-making ultimately giving faster product turn-around.
Shorten turnaround times - Automate repetitive data upload and data processing tasks while simplifying results annotations with focused results entry forms
Collaborate across teams, divisions and geographies - Leverage a standardized framework that enables teams to collaborate across divisions, departments and geographical sites, enabling centralized collaboration.
Why Scientists Choose Dotmatics
Dotmatics’ mission is to help scientists make the world a healthier, cleaner, safer place to live—and we believe technology and data science can make that happen.
Scientists at companies around the world work with Dotmatics to provide solutions that power their journeys in scientific discovery, including tools for ELN, screening, searching, inventory, registration and workflows. Our software is used by more than 2 million scientists globally from BASF and Merck to research universities like MIT and Oxford.
Dotmatics’ company vision and depth of capabilities make it an ideal long term partner. That’s because Dotmatics knows science and employs many scientists internally, with a team of 580 worldwide, over 16% holding advanced science degrees.
Dotmatics provides end-to-end coverage to help companies execute their R&D projects, including scientific support, professional services, a world-class product development team, and a highly responsive support team to assist our customers. Dotmatics also supports strategic organizational objectives, while keeping total cost of ownership (TCO) under control, including licensing, maintenance, deployment, customization, and implementation costs.
To learn more about the Chemicals & Materials Solution, and how to partner with Dotmatics, visit Dotmatics.com.
