new PLM White Paper: The Essential Guide to Product Formulation
Mastering the Core of Chemical Innovation: Why Digital Continuity is the Key to Formulation Excellence
The chemical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food industries are at a decisive turning point. Mastering product formulation—the complex process of linking raw materials, dosages, and transformation parameters to create stable, market-ready products—is now a major strategic challenge.
Traditional methods based on manual processes and empirical experience are quickly showing their limits in the face of increasing regulatory complexity and pressure on time-to-market. Our latest white paper, “The Essential Guide to Product Formulation: Enhancing Traceability, Compliance, and Agility,” provides a roadmap for manufacturers to transform fragmented data into a decisive competitive advantage.
Why Download the White Paper on Formulation Management?
This resource is essential for R&D, Quality, and Regulatory professionals looking to:
- Digitalize Institutional Knowledge: Move away from isolated spreadsheets to a single source of truth that captures and reuses long-term expertise.
- Achieve Predictive Compliance: Shift from reactive verification to real-time regulatory alerts, integrating standards like TSCA, OSHA, and 21 CFR Part 11 directly into the design phase.
- Harmonize Global Processes: Connect geographically dispersed sites and laboratories through a unified digital thread to eliminate redundancies and performance gaps.
- Accelerate Innovation: Leverage structured data and AI-assisted prediction to optimize formulations, reduce R&D costs, and shorten approval times.
By downloading this guide, you will understand how to manage your formulation as an evolving, traceable entity whose past and present are known and whose future can be foreseen.
Key Challenges in Modern Formulation
Mastering the product lifecycle requires addressing several critical pain points:
- Fragmented Data Silos: Isolated systems (ERP, LIMS, spreadsheets) create contradictory versions of data, leading to operational inefficiencies and traceability failures.
- The Trap of Reactive Compliance: Detecting non-compliance only at the end of the development cycle leads to costly rework and delayed time-to-market.
- Complex Change Management: Without siloed data, identifying all formulations impacted by a single raw material modification is nearly impossible.
- Version Control Risks: Lack of historical traceability regarding who validated which version of a formula is a critical risk during audits and investigations.
A proactive digital strategy addresses these risks, transforming change management from a strategic risk into a lever for performance and control.
TEEXMA for PLM Formulation: From Complexity to Control
The TEEXMA for PLM Formulation solution is specifically designed to meet the challenges of the process industries. Key capabilities include:
- Holistic Formulation Module: Manage multi-level Bills of Materials (BOM) with automatic dosage conversions and multi-level consolidation of costs and properties.
- Proactive Regulatory Alerts: Automatically generate alerts when an ingredient is subject to new restrictions or falls within the scope of future regulations.
- Structured Validation Workflows: Define configurable roles and approval levels for R&D, quality, and regulatory teams to secure every market launch.
- Zero-Error Versioning: Maintain an unalterable history of every modification, ensuring all stakeholders use the correct, validated version at the right time
With TEEXMA, your formulation data becomes a living system capable of supporting continuous innovation and organizational transformation.
Download the White Paper: Master Your Formulations Today
Gain total control over your product lifecycle by downloading “The Essential Guide to Product Formulation.” Discover:
- Best practices for centralizing and structuring technical data.
- How to integrate sustainability-oriented design into the R&D process.
- The role of Low-Code and interoperability in ensuring documentary continuity.