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Technical Papers
Matplus GmbH
Right decisions by next generation material information management
Materials Technology with Passion
Materials determine costs and value of products. Materials technology optimizes the balance of costs, product properties and environmental impact. The objective
of a circular economy can only be achieved with appropriate materials. Matplus experts develop industrial material technol- ogies - from the idea to the semi-finished product – as part of their daily work. Mate- rials simulation and materials information management are vital for success in many projects. As a result, the Matplus product EDA® is now a leading solution on the market for advanced materials engineer- ing by providing a technology for a cross department collaboration of materials information management.
More than Materials Reference Data from material catalogs to a single point of truth
In many cases, the effort to make material data available in a digitalized format has led to unmanageable islands of data in compa- nies. Inconsistent data, missing interfaces, lack of traceability and incomplete informa- tion in combination with a large variety of (file) formats leads to inefficient business processes. Materials knowledge, which is
needed to accelerate processes and for decision making, is not available as a corpo- rate solution.
Material catalogs and reference databases are a first step to create such a knowl- edge base. As an example, the Stahldat
SX (www.stahldaten.de), which is also available online, provides the data for all European steels. In the aerospace sector, the MMPDS (Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization) data- base (www.mmpds.org) is an accepted starting point for material properties. It is crucial to extract a company-specific subset of released information from the multitude of heterogeneous information sources and databases.
Computational simulation is an increas- ingly important data source for material formulations and application designs. For structural metals, like steels and alumi- num alloys the material properties can be calculated as a function of temperature and process conditions using JMatPro® software (www.jmatpro.com). JMatPro® solves the model equation based on validated mate- rial models and is able to calculate a large number of variants with very little effort.
Fig 1: Materials Information in industry today – needs experts to locate right information
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