MaterialCenter is a Materials Lifecycle Management System designed to link material specialists to mechanical simulation. MaterialCenter captures data from integrated processes to ensure full traceability across the enterprise and throughout the product lifecycle. It addresses unique process and data requirements, and drives product innovation in complex materials such as alloys, elastomers, plastics, composites, and many more. MaterialCenter works directly with many commercial CAE products and delivers on-demand commercial Databanks to engineers across the industry.

Drawn from the collective experience of the world’s largest OEMs, MaterialCenter is the single point of entry for all materials related activities including physical test data entry and reduction, multi-scale materials modeling, approval workflow and the export of simulation ready data to analysis. This guarantees that engineers are using a consistent source of approved materials derived from traceable integrated processes, resulting in improved simulation fidelity, reduced data loss and elimination of tedious manual data management activities.

• Interactively interrogate complex data sets for material down-selection analyses
• Work directly from Microsoft Excel to publish and retrieve material data
• Utilize graphical tools to track data usage and distribution
• Gain insight on the lifecycle of materials drawn from a range of sources and values
• Evaluate graphical and functional data using visual curve tools
• MaterialCenter Explorer to integrate MaterialCenter with external CAE applications

Drive Engineering Innovation Using Your Materials

• Dashboards for quick evaluation of materials data management projects and management oversight.
• Work request and approval workflow to keep projects on track.
• All materials-related processes, input and output documented through Audit Trail.
• Process-oriented, automation approach to data management to minimize manual data entry activities.
• Robust and intuitive interface for data search, retrieval and comparison for all data types – tabular, curves, images, etc.
• Web-based interface to data management processes that enable distributed data authoring and maintenance.
• Built-in job queue interface that optimizes execution of materials simulation processes.
• Proven scalability to 100,000s of processes and petabytes of data to meet the needs of engineers for years to come.
• Integrates commercial Databanks for accessing critical materials data that is available in industry.

MaterialCenter Add-in Solutions

Optional modules available with MaterialCenter enable integration with leading CAE platforms and Excel making it easier for users to access the material database without compromising security.

MaterialCenter Databanks is a comprehensive source of material information needed by engineers for research, product design and development, provided in conveniently accessible electronic format. The databanks are developed and maintained through MSC’s partnerships with premier sources of materials information.

MaterialCenter Databanks fits easily into an organization’s engineering process to achieve high return on investment with the following capabilities:

• Provide designers and engineers with material information in a quick and traceable manner.
• Validate your company’s materials with the latest test data and reference sources from industry.
• Interface with MaterialCenter to optimize searching, material down-selection, and data export.
• Export data to third-party client applications.
• Convert units that adhere to ASTM E-380 standards.

Why MaterialCenter Databanks

• Improve time-to-market: Reliable data readily accessible helps engineers choose the right materials for their designs
• Reduce errors: By accessing data in a standard format from reliable sources, errors due to incorrect inputs can be avoided
• Improve quality: With access to a large number of material alternatives, engineers can choose the optimal set of materials by easily comparing and evaluating multiple design options
• Control costs: By streamlining the process of material selection and standardizing the material selection process, save on material and design costs, and reduce risk.