DSM Engineering Materials has announced the launch of Lucidiris™, a color and mechanical properties prediction tool powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
According to DSM, Lucidiris™ can help customers predict color and mechanical properties of polymer compounds upon the addition of color ingredients, predict the envelope of potential color space that can be produced within critical mechanical properties, and prescribe color ingredients to add to a polymer compound to meet targeted properties.
Lucidiris™ was developed to be able to be used for several high-performance material grades and will be extended, the company says, to include recycled-based and repurposed materials. The tool was developed with patented AI technology.
“LucidirisTM changes our design-build-test-learn development cycle for the customer applications of our materials fundamentally,” said Erwin Houben, R&T Manager Digitization DSM Engineering Materials. “This state-of-the-art AI-based digital tool reinforces our strengths in colored materials development and enables [us] to take on some tough challenges for reusing circular materials.”
“And there is more to come,” said Angelika Schmidt, Global R&T Manager of Performance Polymers, DSM Engineering Materials. “LucidirisTM is our next step into digitization of product development. What we can do for color development already today, will be possible for product development in the future. Combining human intelligence with machine learning will enable us to get to the successful recipes with much less iterations and therefore much shorter development times for our customers.”