SITUATION

The process of creating, optimizing, and testing new engine lubricants has been a long, high-risk, high cost, trial and error process that requires deep domain expertise. In addition, ever- changing regulatory, environmental, and equipment manufacturers’ guidelines further complicate the process. Lastly, each candidate formulation is typically validated through a long and expensive series of tests, further increasing the cost, risk of failure, and time- to-market for new products.

CHALLENGES

Lengthy & costly process - taking months to years
High risk of failure in required tests
Resource-intensive & repetitive methods
Limited access to experienced formulation experts
Experimental processes - leading to low predictive accuracy & less optimized products

SOLUTION

Beyond Limits’ Cognitive Formulation Advisor leverages your historical data (historical blend composition and measured properties) to propose new hypothetical blends. Through this process, Beyond Limits incorporates your formulation domain knowledge, alongside parameters and directional guidance (such as regional availability of base stock) into the AI-driven solution.

The result is a well-integrated software product that recommends hundreds of viable blends meeting constrained viscometric targets with high confidence in predicted properties in a fraction of time compared to the alternative approaches. The solution also explicitly characterizes the confidence level in its prediction and recommends a series of optimized blends by considering cost and performance. A few select lead candidates can be created and tested with results verified in your laboratories. Customer results suggest that Beyond Limits' solution was more than 95% accurate on average.

BENEFITS

Reduced production material costs
Higher predictive accuracy of candidate properties
Expedited access to hundreds of viable, new & improved formulations in minutes
Accelerated time-to-market for optimal lead candidates
Standardized process based on best practices - readily accessible across the organization

Cognitive Formulation Advisor

by Beyond Limits