Short Course- Material Data Management

Audience

Engineers, engineering management, IT and knowledge management professionals.

Outline

This short course covers the basics of material data management, enabling users of Matereality and management personnel who are looking to position this technology for a user community within their enterprises to obtain a holistic view of MDM and its importance for the enterprise.

Topics

Introduction to MDM

Types of material property data
Specificity of material data for particular applications
How material data is used in the enterprise

Application of MDM to product development groups

Characteristics of design appropriate material properties
Deficiencies in commonly available material data pools
Sourcing strategies for design properties

Application of MDM to procurement groups

Properties specific to procurement activity
Applying supply chain integration to management of material data

Extension of MDM to enterprise-wide activities

Depositing all material property data within a single architecture
Positioning data for specific groups
Access control and security
Information sharing between collaborating enterprises

A short tour of Matereality

Personal collections vs. global collections
An overview of the breadth of Matereality
Viewing properties
Visualizing dependencies, variability
Unit conversions
Assessing quality with Data Certificates
Exporting data
Using MIRO to locate data
Properties for design
Material models for CAE/FEA