Accelerate Color Development and Matching
Slow color development slows the business. Every extra loop delays approvals, stretches time to market, and makes production transfer harder. Metromation helps coatings manufacturers speed up color development, improve matching accuracy, and move from lab results to production reality with more confidence.
Why It Matters
Color development is not just a lab task. It decides how fast new products move, how reliably supply starts, and how consistently color performs later in production. When matching takes too long, the whole process slows down.
Why It Deserves a Fresh Look
Too much color development still depends on iteration, memory, and individual experience. That worked when speed mattered less. Today, shorter timelines and higher expectations demand a faster, more structured way to develop and match color.
How Metromation Changes the Game
Metromation combines liquid color measurement technology, application expertise, and Metromation Intelligent Process Services (IPS) to cut time out of color development and improve matching accuracy. IPS helps correlate liquid and dry color results, connect data sources, and apply algorithms that link both worlds. This allows a dry target color to be translated into a liquid target, development work to move faster in liquid, and final approval to stay in dry. The result is shorter time to market, more reliable in-time supply, and a smoother transfer into production.
What Makes Our Approach Different
We work directly with liquid coatings, where faster and more relevant color information supports quicker decisions. Learning from liquid and dry samples improves the prognosis of a dry color from a liquid measurement.
Measurement Technology
Faster, precise and more usable color information workflows using liquid color measurement.
Application Expertise
We do not stop at the lab value. We connect color development to how coatings behave in real application and production conditions.
Metromation IPS
Metromation Intelligent Process Services (PIS) connects liquid and dry color data to support faster matching and smoother transfer into production.
How to Make It Work Well
The biggest gains come when color development is treated as a repeatable process, not an isolated expert task. Good measurement, clear comparison logic, and structured data make matching faster, more transferable, and less dependent on rework.
Key Success Factors
- Clear color targets and acceptance criteria
- Fast access to relevant liquid color data
- Consistent comparison logic
- Application-oriented evaluation
- Structured reuse of past matching results
- Clean transfer from lab to production
See How to Speed Up Color Development and Matching
If color development is taking too long, matching accuracy is inconsistent, or transfer into production is too slow, Metromation can help you identify where better measurement, and smarter decisions will accelerate results.