Materials Design, Development, and Deployment in Manufacturing Industry

Abstract

The materials and manufacturing industry is undergoing transformation through adoption of various digital technologies. Though the adoption of digital platforms for operational needs is significant, their adoption for core design and development of products and their manufacturing are limited. While the use of physics and data-driven modeling-and-simulation tools is increasing, these are not systematically leveraged for larger benefit. Besides these tools, product design and development requires deep contextual knowledge necessitating systematic capture of data and knowledge. To achieve this, we need flexible digital platforms that enable integration of diverse design domains and tools through a common semantic basis and construction of engineering decision workflows leveraging various simulation tools and knowledge. This chapter builds these requirements through presenting three case studies from the materials manufacturing industry and presents requirements for a digital platform. Finally, one such platform, TCS PREMAP, being developed by the authors is described in some detail.