product development software, workflows, work processes, formula management, process development

We at Formation, help paint and coatings companies achieve market success and growth through effective product development. With Optiva, Formation's Product Development Suite, you can:

• Bring more products to market faster
• Lower product development costs
• Improve product quality and global consistency
• Reduce the complexity of your supply chain

Formation offers product development software solutions to the paint and coatings industry to help companies formulate faster, at lower cost and higher quality. Our solution is specifically designed towards getting more products out faster, reducing cost of product development, ensuring compliance with regulatory and environmental regulations, cost effective product customization, and globalization of products.

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The Challenge for Paint & Coatings Manufacturers
Many of today's leading paint and coatings companies are facing a tough competitive environment and are consolidating and restructuring to become global, agile and flexible organizations in order to achieve greater growth and cost efficiencies. In a tough competitive environment, companies that have superior product development processes enjoy a sustainable competitive advantage. More and more companies are realizing that to achieve growth, improvements in the product development process will have a greater impact than any other improvement they can make. These companies can formulate faster, at lower cost and higher quality.

Meeting the Challenge with Formation
Optiva's integrated modules comprehensively cover the entire product development process, from product definition to product design/formulation to scale-up and manufacturing. Among our ranks you will find seasoned industry formulators/product developers, professional IT staff, and innovative software designers, each with more than 15 years of experience bringing new consumer products to market, implementing software applications, and developing intuitive easy-to-use software. We have assembled the largest team of multi-disciplinary experts in our industry to help you. At Formation, our commitment is to your success not just with our products, but in the market place.