Multi-scale R&D Program: In the chemicals and consumer packaged goods industries, scientists perform R&D experimentation across different stages and scales, from discovery through scale-up to pilot plant. Symyx's Multi-Scale R&D program captures data and connects the scales, improving data access and analysis, reducing duplicate experimentation, and improving the predictability of costly pilot plant runs. Customers state that, without such an environment, 30-40% of experiments are simply repeated because data is so poorly accessible that it is often faster to rerun experiments and collect the data again.

• Integrate R&D activities so that scientists can more easily access, correlate, and model recipes, procedures, and experimental results across R&D stages and scales
• Accelerate data point collection and prediction with improved automation and modeling, from discovery through scale-up to pilot plant
• Reuse valuable data as experiments move from lab to plant to manufacturing by employing structured and scalable data formats and exchange mechanisms