Integrated Computational Materials, Process and Product Engineering – IC-MPPE 2022

The development of new and improved materials and the use of existing materials in new applications across different industries are a significant innovation driver and a key factor for the success and sustainability of industry and European society in general.
Today, many more large and small companies rely on numerical simulations to effectively and efficiently design and engineer new products and to optimise processes, thus minimising the need for expensive and time‐consuming prototyping and testing. Furthermore, the potential of materials modelling as a driver for radical increase in speed of product design and radical decrease in production costs and in‐service performance is recognised by manufacturing companies across Europe (SME’s and large corporations alike). In a tough, highly volatile and competitive market environment, innovation and time‐to‐market is critical, especially for companies that need to put differentiated products on the market every year. Materials modelling‐led product innovation can be a key differentiator for success in such competitive markets.
The EMMC association (www.emmc.eu) and its wide ranging community have been leading in building a highly interdisciplinary ecosystem; it merges the many strands of modelling and digitalisation advances to accelerate materials development and manufacturing. Key developments include advancing open and integrated modelling and innovation platforms, connected to powerful knowledge systems based on interoperability and ontologies to support the Industry 5.0 transition.
EMMC is contributing to a consolidated strategic roadmap, supporting the agile and inclusive European governance of advanced materials and the drawing up of a novel European strategic next-generation advanced materials agenda for a sustainable society. In particular, EMMC calls for a Materials and Process Acceleration Platform: an ecosystem uniting digital and materials capacities and competences in materials modelling, characterisation, robotics, data documentation, ontologies and ML/AI, which are orchestrated to accelerate the design, development and application of solution-oriented advanced materials and related processes/manufacturing.