A Faster Way To Screen Supply Chains For Harmful Chemicals
IBM, Friday, June 13th, 2025
IBM's new Safer Materials Advisor can speed up the review of thousands of chemical products for PFAS by more than four times while reducing the chance of errors.
More than 4,500 chemical products are cleared for use within IBM Research headquarters in Yorktown, N.Y., and documentation for just about each one has crossed Angela Hutchinson's desk at some point in the last two decades.
As the Yorktown chemical coordinator, it's Hutchinson's job to review all chemical requests tied to research happening at the lab, from semiconductors to quantum computing. As IBM's business has evolved, so have the requests.