LANXESS is set to break new ground when it comes to the development of customer-specific high-performance plastics. By deploying artificial intelligence (AI), the specialty chemicals company is looking to drastically cut the amount of time it takes to develop new materials. For this, LANXESS has entered into close collaboration with Citrine Informatics, a U.S.-based AI company specializing in data-driven materials development.
与Citrine信息学合作
两家公司已经启动了一个试点项目，旨在衡量AI对塑料生产的潜力。目的是进一步优化Lanxess用于增强其许多高性能塑料的玻璃纤维，并最终提高材料的性能。亚博网站下载
AI削减开发时间
Glass fiber sizing plays a key role here. Glass fibers that are mixed with the plastics to increase their mechanical performance are surrounded with a sizing. This helps the glass fibers to bond more strongly with the plastic matrix, ultimately ensuring the properties required of high-performance plastics. The process of optimizing glass fiber sizing is complex, laborious and time-consuming.“We expect AI to cut the development time for optimized formulations by more than half,”says Dr. Axel Tuchlenski, Head of Global Product and Application Development in the LANXESS High Performance Materials business unit.“这将使我们不仅可以为客户提供更好的量身定制产品，还可以减少上市时间。”
AI推荐配方
In traditional product development, the complex composition of glass fiber sizings and the numerous variables when manufacturing high-performance plastics require extensive testing, the results of which can be hard to predict. AI can make an important contribution in this case by getting the most out of the available data. Supplied from thousands of measurement results from previous formulations, raw material information and a host of additional data, AI algorithms calculate forecast models for improved test configurations and parameters, enhance these models on the basis of the measurement results from each individual test, and finally propose an optimum formulation. This procedure makes product development much faster than traditional methods.
LANXESS Digitalization Initiative
对于负责Lanxess数字化计划负责人的JörgHellwig来说，开发高性能塑料的试点项目只是Lanxess AI的开始。“Artificial Intelligence is a vital technology for creating innovation from the myriad data within the Group.”
Lanxess于2017年启动了数字化计划，建立了一支专门的团队。它是Hellwig以首席数字官的身份领导的，他直接向Lanxess AG管理委员会主席Matthias Zachert报告。该计划的核心行动领域是开发数字业务模型，在整个价值链中引入新技术，开发和利用大数据，并在员工之间培养数字专业知识。
柠檬油信息学是将数据驱动开发方法应用于材料科学的行业领导者，称为材料信息学。亚博网站下载亚博老虎机网登录使用材料数据和AI的力量，柠檬酸平台可以加速材料和化学物质的开发。亚博网站下载Citrine因世界经济论坛的技术创新而被认可为2017年技术先驱，并赢得了2018年年度最佳初创企业奖。CitrineInformatics与世界上一些最好的大学合作，包括宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡的卡内基·梅隆大学和加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校。
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