South KoreaConsumer goods2024 – ongoingCOSMAX
Smart AI colour matching for cosmetics formulation
COSMAX said AI raised the share of colour matching completed within 4 rounds from 52% to 78%
Problem
Manual colour matching required repeated formulation experiments. Cosmetics customers also wanted shorter development cycles.
Approach
COSMAX developed a smart colour-matching system that predicted a formulation's colour from colour data. The system supported early formulation choices and AI-based setting of initial pigment quantities during manufacturing.
Results
Takeaway
Colour prediction moved part of formulation work ahead of physical trials.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Consumer goods
- Business function
- IT and R&DProduction and quality
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Predictive analytics and ML
- Adoption
- Built in-house
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
COSMAX said it was already using smart AI colour matching in research and production in October 2024. It also reported introducing an internal generative AI chatbot.
COSMAX described predicting formulation colours and setting initial pigment quantities with AI. It said completion within 4 rounds increased from 52% to 78%.
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