Case Study: Fortune 500 automotive coatings company achieves 80% faster color matching with Selerant's Devex PLM

Streamlining a business process with Devex PLM Fast and fully automated color matching for automobile repair technicians

Fortune 500 Company, a global leader in automotive coatings with $18 billion in revenue and 60,000 employees, faced a time-consuming, error-prone color matching process for collision repair technicians who needed fast, exact paint matches. The company engaged Selerant and implemented its Devex PLM solution to search millions of color formulas and support technicians with a configurable, web-based color-matching tool.

Selerant deployed Devex to centralize a knowledge library, automate color searches from spectrophotometer readings, create projects and color panels, and integrate with the existing ERP. The result: color-matching time dropped by 80%, a streamlined, repeatable process with instant pigment ratios for technicians, and a measurable competitive advantage as more auto body shops choose the company’s paint.