Innovating with AI in the special chemicals industry

What happened: Lubrizol is building a digital foundation connecting business processes, modern data platforms, and cloud infrastructure to support its R&D teams, according to VP of IT Girish Rao. Why it matters: Rao says the goal is to give scientists better tools, not replace scientific judgment, and the company uses "fusion teams" and small pilots to build trust between scientists, data scientists, and IT.

Lubrizol is building a digital foundation connecting business processes, modern data platforms, and cloud infrastructure to support its R&D teams, according to VP of IT Girish Rao.

Rao says the goal is to give scientists better tools, not replace scientific judgment, and the company uses "fusion teams" and small pilots to build trust between scientists, data scientists, and IT.