Best Practices for Managing Materials

The right material can improve the reliability of your product, make it stand out from the competition, and/or save costs associated with manufacturing or operations. However, the number of materials available has dramatically increased during the past decades. Most companies realize that materials information has a critical role to play in product development. Still, many are not using best practices to collect, manage and capitalize on materials information.

Materials data is used at various stages of the product development process. For example, a designer can assign a material to a component in computer-aided design (CAD) software so that it can be used to determine a product’s weight. A simulation analyst might assign a specific material model in computer-aided engineering (CAE) software to more accurately run a simulation. Of course, basing designs or simulations on the wrong material data could have catastrophic effects.

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