Altair Material Data Center - 2023.0
Altair EmployeeAltair Material Data Center’s feature rich and powerful data management tools enable organizations enforce standards by providing a centralized material data storage, maintenance & sharing solution. Together with a highly scalable architecture, and a powerful API interface for connecting seamlessly with external systems such as PLM tools and CAE/CAD platforms AMDC is the perfect choice as the single source of truth for material data for small and large organizations alike.
Materials play a central role in sustainable product development. material engineers and product teams alike can leverage AMDC as their single source of truth that consolidates and stores material data including sustainability. Thereby minimizing risks right at the beginning of product development. The Global Warming Potential Calculator in AMDC can be used to study the impact of a material, additives, and associated processes on global warming. Thereby ensuring a lower carbon footprint. AMDC Private database users can have the tool customized to meet their organization specific requirements.
While data administrators would find the embedded Data Edit tool for editing/updating material data convenient & robust, the Version Control Tool offers full traceability of material data and allows comparing or reverting to older versions if required.
Material producers and material data suppliers can further leverage the AMDC’s External Facing Portal for reaching out to prospects. A fully customizable web interface together with an individually tailored PDF Datasheet Tool allow organizations to define a unique user experience. Managers benefit from inbuilt tools to study and analyze most viewed materials, or frequently downloaded datasheets. This helps develop an insight into current market trends and make early decisions.
Users of Altair’s public material database benefit from our rapidly growing content, both in terms of number of materials and depth of material data. A rigorous, exhaustive, and continuous material evaluation process ensures that users have access to a robust and reliable source for material data.
This year alone has seen the database grow by over 17000 datasets, spanning from new plastics, metals to PEM test data from Ziegler instruments. New additions include not only new materials, but also additional properties such as fatigue, rheological and electromagnetic data for existing materials. CAE interfacing has further improved with export interfaces to FLUX & CADFEKO.
Direct integration in Inspire Mold has enabled users to seamlessly connect to AMDC to look up and download materials with data injection molding simulation directly into Inspire Mold. This integration has been further expanded to SimLab & HyperMesh.
Visualizing material data has been a key requirement in interpreting material behavior and selecting materials for a specific purpose. AMDC provides polar charts as a powerful tool to study tradeoffs and select materials best suited for specific tasks. Recently, we’ve added an interactive thermal endurance chart that helps users predict stability of polymers.
Materials that hence generate an interest can now be shared using a link with a few clicks.
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