Formulation
MSDS
Formulation is the application for rules-based authoring, and designed
to automate the production of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) using
information about finished products or product components. For companies
whose business requires frequent changes in product recipe or
formulation, this rules-based application offers a cost effective way of
automatically generating MSDS’s.
Automated
MSDS Creation
MSDS’s may be generated largely without
human intervention, using MSDS templates, standard phrases, ingredient
or finished product information selected by pre-defined rules and/or
parts of other MSDS’s. By constructing MSDS’s from these building
blocks, changes that effect an entire group of MSDS’s, or a class of
products, can be made very quickly.
User-Definable
Chemical Information
The foundation for the MSDS Formulation
application is a database containing basic information about each
chemical, with an unlimited capacity for user-defined data elements.
These elements can include (but are not limited to) chemical name, CAS
Number, designations for mixtures and components, trade secrets,
specific gravity, hazard class, and links to regulatory lists.
Rules
for MSDS Creation
One use of the Chemical Information
Database is to serve as the source of data for dynamic MSDS creation.
When an MSDS is required for a newly created mixture or product, it is
generated automatically based on a template. Values can be either
numeric (such as flash point, PEL, TLV), or textual (such as hazard
statements, or disclaimers). The data may be obtained directly from a
product's chemical information record, or constructed dynamically from a
list of ingredients. For variable data, there are three possible methods
in which ingredient information can be placed into the finished MSDS;
Single Value, Range of Values, or All Values. Further processing can be
performed by executing calculations or flagging exclusive pairs, such as
ingredients which might have incompatible hazard statements.
Dispatching
MSDS’s
Used in combination with MSDS
Dispatch, MSDS Formulation sends new or changed product MSDS’s to
customers automatically when interfaced with core business systems.
