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

The digital transformation of materials science and engineering is driven by societal needs to develop novel materials which are compatible with a circular economy, save resource while they are produced and have extended lifetimes until they are re- or upcycled. Materials platforms help to share the tremendous effort within the community. The platforms are built to offer prototypical implementations of domain specific services (e.g. digital workflows and development environments, simulations, AI) and allow to publish structured reference datasets as best practices together with the underlying materials ontologies.
Starting with ‘Why should we go through all the effort?’, short examples (UrWerk, iBain, BW MaterialDigital, metallography) shall be shown of how data can be used either across institutions along the materials life cycle. Implications, of what could be done with a global materials data space shall be discussed very briefly. Next, we will discuss ‘How can a common data space could be implemented?’. Finally, the question ‘What needs to be done?’ will be discussed based on two example platforms, the BMBF ‘Plattform MaterialDigital’ (2019-2025) and the NFDI-MatWerk (2022-2026-maybe till 2031). Here, the mission and implementation methodology will be described as well as possible products to answer the needs in Materials Science and Engineering and the related stakeholders. The talk will be closed by a short glimpse of how the transformation can take place on an institutional scale.