Formulated Product Development with Siemens Opcenter RD&L
Siemens Opcenter RD&L (Research, Development & Laboratory) is a comprehensive formulation and recipe management solution that helps coordinate product R&D, improve innovation efficiency, and maintain consistent data across the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. It enables organizations to align formulated product development with business goals, regulatory requirements, and market demands, accelerating time to market and ensuring data integrity.
Opcenter RD&L software offers configurable solutions for research, development, and laboratory management, helping companies drive innovation, efficiency, and maintain product data integrity. The suite is composed of three integrated components:
- Opcenter Specification: for centralized management of product, material, and compliance specifications.
- Opcenter Formulation: for digital formulation development, simulation, and optimization.
- Opcenter Laboratory: for quality data management, lab workflow coordination, and regulatory reporting.
What are the Customer Benefits?
Rationalized and harmonized
product
Faster exchange of product data with partners
Reduces administrative tasks and
errors
Well-maintained product quality and compliance
Cost reduction in new product development and introduction
Standardized intellectual property throughout the company
Opcenter Specificaton: Specification Management
Siemens Opcenter Specification enables efficient management and simulation of component raw materials, packaging, and ingredients across global, multi-language, and multi-site environments. It acts as a central hub for critical specification data, including product characteristics, quality norms and methods, recipes, nutritional values, production processes, and labeling information, feeding seamlessly into systems like ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), MES (Manufacturing Execution System), and LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System).
The platform supports comprehensive product specifications such as regulatory, legal, quality, logistical, nutritional, environmental, supplier, and process requirements, including bills of materials and compliance data.
Advanced, flexible search capabilities drastically reduce the time needed to access specification details, improving R&D efficiency and data accuracy. Label generation is streamlined with country-specific rules, enabling automatic calculations for nutriscore, allergens, and label declarations.
Additionally, Opcenter Specification enhances supplier collaboration through an integrated portal, allowing real-time sharing and updates of product specifications, improving transparency and reducing time-to-market.
Opcenter Formulation: Formula Development
Evolving consumer demands are driving the need for a broader variety of products and packaging, resulting in increasingly complex and dynamic production processes.
Siemens Opcenter Formulation empowers R&D teams to accelerate product development by reusing pre-approved ingredients and raw materials. It enables digital simulation of formula performance, reducing the need for physical trials and shortening development cycles.
With real-time recalculation of formulations based on changes in quantities or materials, teams can ensure product quality, cost-efficiency, and compliance from the start. Once a formulation is validated, it can be instantly transformed into a complete bill of materials (BOM) and product specifications, ensuring seamless handoff to manufacturing and supply chain systems.
Opcenter Laboratory: Laboratory Information Management
Siemens Opcenter Laboratory is a centralized laboratory information management system (LIMS) that optimizes quality data handling and laboratory workflows across R&D and Quality Control environments. It enhances data collection, analysis, and reporting while supporting both pilot production testing and routine processes in development labs.
The system enables automated data acquisition directly from connected analytical instruments, reducing manual effort and improving data accuracy. This automation also supports proactive instrument calibration and maintenance, minimizing downtime and ensuring reliable performance.
Comprehensive lab analytics are available through auto-generated reports such as Certificates of Analysis (CoA), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), management dashboards, and other customizable reporting formats, all designed to support regulatory compliance, traceability, and data-driven decision-making.
