Nippon Shokubai Co. Ltd. has newly established data science & informatics promotion office on June 1, 2020 at Innovation & Business Development Division in the Suita Research Center.

 

The comoany has been uniquely applying data science and materials informatics for the past 10 years to accelerate the development of materials such as acrylic acid catalysts and superabsorbent polymers. Our approach was achieved through Bayesian inference methods, with the comprehensive analysis of multifaceted research data on manufacturing methods, physical properties and measurements.

 

In recent years, since the demand for responding to diversifying customer needs and shortening the lead time to commercialization in overall product development has been stronger than before, we have established the DS&I Promotion Office to enhance data-driven research and development throughout the company, by further developing our technologies and knowledge accumulated in the fields.

 

The DS&I Promotion Office will carry out far-sighted capital investment and technology demonstration. At the same time, we attach great importance on cultivating data literacy of our R&D staff, and we will also aim to foster relevant researchers continuously and allocate them in all research departments appropriately.

 

In the medium to long term, we will focus on building a cross-departmental information infrastructure, toward transforming our data resources into further strengths in R&D strategy, that will dramatically improve certainty and speed of exploratory research to commercialization.