Fifteen Major Aerospace Companies Join Toulouse MDMC Workshop

Next Venue and Date Announced: Berlin, May 18

The cream of the European Aerospace industry were represented at last month's successful MDMC Workshop in Toulouse. The event was the first in a series designed to explain and discuss the possibilities of materials information management, with the aim of developing awareness and use of this valuable emerging technology.

The accurate, reliable, and secure use of materials information in product and process design is essential to every aerospace, energy, or defense organization. Yet few, if any, have successfully implemented robust systems to ensure best practise in managing and applying materials data. The Material Data Management Consortium (MDMC) is a collaborative project of leading engineering organizations established to address this issue. It has identified and solved many of the key practical challenges in enterprise management of materials data and guided the development of a new system, GRANTA MI, that meets these challenges. The ultimate goals of MDMC members are to reduce risk and liability and to save millions of dollars in improved design efficiency.

The goal of this series of events is to share the experience and success of the project, enabling delegates to assess its potential. At the January 26th meeting in Toulouse, three current members of the MDMC Steering Committee presented:

Alcan Aerospace
NASA Glenn Research Center
Williams International

Presenters discussed achievements since their involvement with the Consortium began three years ago, describing their materials data organization and workflow prior to the MDMC, the reasons why some critical issues in this workflow could not previously have been addressed, and the factors that made the MDMC approach different - and ultimately successful - in providing a solution.

Representatives of fifteen major European aerospace organizations participated in this workshop, and feedback was extremely positive. Attendees particularly enjoyed the practical demonstrations of the GRANTA MI system and the ability to discuss interactively how it might meet their specific needs.

A second workshop will be held on May 18 during the Berlin Air show. If you would like more information, please contact info@grantadesign.com or visit the event web page (below).

Links:

Berlin workshop details: http://www.mdmc.net/workshops/