Presented by X-Rite Pantone
December 02, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. EST | 3:00 PM CET
Manufacturers of coatings, plastics, personal care products, and cosmetics often develop and approve color standards in a controlled laboratory environment using benchtop spectrophotometers. However, maintaining the same level of color confidence throughout production can be challenging when measurements are taken by different operators, instruments, facilities, suppliers, or manufacturing sites.
The challenge becomes even greater when working with high-chroma colors, textured surfaces, translucent materials, optical brighteners, packaging influences, and temperature-sensitive production environments. These variables can create measurement discrepancies that lead to repeated checks, slower approvals, inconsistent pass/fail decisions, and increased production costs.
This educational webinar explores practical strategies for reducing the gap between laboratory and production measurements. Attendees will learn how standardized measurement procedures, improved instrument agreement, connected color workflows, and consistent quality-control practices can help improve confidence, reduce uncertainty, and support more consistent color decisions across the organization.
The session will also demonstrate how portable, lab-aligned color measurement solutions can extend color confidence closer to production without requiring benchtop instruments at every manufacturing location.
Attendees will learn how to:
- Understand the primary causes of color measurement variation between laboratory and production environments.
- Identify measurement challenges associated with high-chroma colors, textured surfaces, translucent materials, optical brighteners, cosmetic formulations, and complex part geometries.
- Improve measurement consistency across operators, sites, suppliers, and manufacturing partners.
- Reduce repeated measurement validation and reconciliation activities.
- Increase confidence in pass/fail decisions against customer tolerances.
- Maintain measurement agreement through standardized workflows and instrument profiling.
- Build a more connected color-quality workflow from formulation through production control.
Presenters
Maximilian Gießelmann
Application Engineer
X-Rite Pantone
Maximilian Gießelmann is an Application Engineer at X-Rite specializing in color measurement, quality control, and color management workflows. He works with customers to improve color consistency, optimize production processes, and achieve reliable results across a wide range of applications.
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