W. Marsden, Granta Design Limited, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Materials are the bedrock of all products and structures. Their influence within the aerospace sector is particularly significant as they govern performance and drive innovation.
An influential group of commercial and government groups (including OEM’s, Tier-1 suppliers, materials suppliers, DoD, DoE, NASA, UK MOD, ASM International…) recognized this and have focused on creating a toolset for managing this vital resource within their organizations. Together they have influenced the development of a system to streamline and manage their materials workflow – meeting their own individual requirement with a common platform.
This group, collectively known as the Materials Data Management Consortium is in the second three-year phase and has a growing collective understanding of the problems they face, how the tool they developed continues to solve them and where further development is necessary.
The system allows all forms of materials data (text, numerical and pictorial) to be easily and automatically loaded into an environment for its storage where it is automatically linked to other pertinent data using in-house business rules and made accessible for further manipulation or comparison using toolsets specifically aimed at the different audiences and their workflows with the different organizations.
Ultimately, the information is used in the design and analysis of new components and structures. Deployment of data to these groups is the final stage in materials workflow. These groups use complex business and computational tools which can access the information within the system directly.
The new tool integrates directly with an organization’s existing practice. It allows organizations to realize efficiency benefits in the generation of design data, increase the quality and traceability of all materials information and reduces the risk of failure.
The results of the discussions within the MDMC, the software and future development will be discussed, in addition to some demonstration of the capabilities of the tool.
Materials are the bedrock of all products and structures. Their influence within the aerospace sector is particularly significant as they govern performance and drive innovation.
An influential group of commercial and government groups (including OEM’s, Tier-1 suppliers, materials suppliers, DoD, DoE, NASA, UK MOD, ASM International…) recognized this and have focused on creating a toolset for managing this vital resource within their organizations. Together they have influenced the development of a system to streamline and manage their materials workflow – meeting their own individual requirement with a common platform.
This group, collectively known as the Materials Data Management Consortium is in the second three-year phase and has a growing collective understanding of the problems they face, how the tool they developed continues to solve them and where further development is necessary.
The system allows all forms of materials data (text, numerical and pictorial) to be easily and automatically loaded into an environment for its storage where it is automatically linked to other pertinent data using in-house business rules and made accessible for further manipulation or comparison using toolsets specifically aimed at the different audiences and their workflows with the different organizations.
Ultimately, the information is used in the design and analysis of new components and structures. Deployment of data to these groups is the final stage in materials workflow. These groups use complex business and computational tools which can access the information within the system directly.
The new tool integrates directly with an organization’s existing practice. It allows organizations to realize efficiency benefits in the generation of design data, increase the quality and traceability of all materials information and reduces the risk of failure.
The results of the discussions within the MDMC, the software and future development will be discussed, in addition to some demonstration of the capabilities of the tool.
