Seminar - Brooklands Museum, January 29, 2008

Materials Information - Using it to Enhance Innovation, Increase Productivity, and Reduce Risk

Each particpant identified issues of importance to them and their organizations. Note - participants could 'vote' for as many items as they wished.

1. We lose materials property data or waste time finding it	16
2. We want to consolidate our materials (test) data in one place	14
3. We need to improve our monitoring of materials in production	6
4. Our materials modelling uses many large sets of raw data	7
5. We want to deploy corporate materials data to engineers	14
6. We need to get the correct data into our FEA, CAD, etc…	13
7. We’d like to publish materials information to our customers	3
8. We often need to find a cheaper material to do the same job	6
9. Our company wants to limit proliferation of material choices	8
10. We want to help designers make rational materials decisions	15
11. We need to position the materials we produce v competition	2
12. We must comply with regulations (e.g., REACH, EuP…)	7