Evonik team wins IT award for Coatino Defect Detection
A team from Evonik's Coating Additives Business Line has won first place in the IT Voice Best Data Project Award in the large company category for its newly developed digital tool Coatino Defect Detection (CDD).
The Best Data Project Award is presented by the Voice Association of IT Users and honors development teams from companies that have successfully designed and implemented data-centric projects. The Evonik development team accepted the award at the Voice Decision-Makers' Forum in mid-November. Coatino Defect Detection uses sophisticated image recognition based on a neural network to analyze painted test samples for defects. Within seconds, the tool delivers an objective and quantifiable result. This simplifies and accelerates laboratory work immensely, because the analysis and evaluation of painted samples is a typical task in the laboratory. Especially when many samples have to be compared and evaluated in a large test series, this takes a lot of time. In addition, the results are subjective and difficult to reproduce. "These routine activities rob time for the innovation process. We give some of the time back," says Oliver Kröhl, Head of Strategic Business Development at Coating Additives.
Coatino Defect Detection is part of the Coatino formulation network, which provides digital support to manufacturers in choosing their products and formulating their coatings. Currently, the tool is designed for the architectural coatings market, with other application areas, defects and additional features coming soon. The voice jury with representatives from science and practice sees all these advantages in the digital tool from Evonik Coating Additives: The benefits for customers are clear and measurable, they say. It is an externally marketed, highly developed image recognition service that was developed by a cross-divisional project team. The Voice Best Data Project Award is presented once a year in the categories of medium-sized company and large company. The projects considered deal with data collection and processing, data transport and provision, and their analysis, for example using machine learning or artificial intelligence. Factors such as the impact on the company, the level of innovation, originality and the use of innovative data technologies play a role in the evaluation. Voice - Bundesverband der IT-Anwender e.V. is an association of the German information and telecommunications industry and represents the interests of around 400 members and approximately 3000 member companies from various industries.