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HIGHL IGHTS A D V A N C E D M A T E R I A L S & P R O C E S S E S | N O V E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 9 7 6 Annual meeting session during the World Manufacturing Forum, Lake Como, Italy, September 25-27. Mahoney CEO CORNER ASM and Partners at the World Manufacturing Forum Last spring, ASM formed an MOU with Intelligent Manufactur- ing System International (IMSI). IMSI is a 30-year-old non-profit whosemission is toproliferateman- ufacturing technologies (Indus- try 4.0/Manufacturing 4.0) among small and medium-sized enter- prises. IMSI is also the parent com- pany of the World Manufacturing Forum, which has become, over time, the “Davos” of manufac- turing. ASM has rightly predicted that partnering with IMSI will give ASM a leg up on leading “Materials 4.0” market segments, as the process triad between materials, design, and manufacturing becomes an ever more closed- loop triad. Our IMSI partnership presented the opportunity for ASM to organize a half-day Technical Symposium at the WMF on September 25, which was scheduled as a “Tech- nical Day” in advance of the main conference. I invited Anders Engstrom, Thermo-Calc Software CEO; Aziz Aspha- hani, QuesTek CEO and Chairman; Ajei Gopal, ANSYS CEO; Dave Cebon, ANSYS CTO (Granta co-founder); and Ray Fryan, TimkenSteel VP of Quality and Technology, to work with me to develop a program that would reflect the latest technolo- gies and applications in the Materials 4.0 space. The team worked during the summer to develop our program, which explored in sequence thermodynamic mod- eling (Thermo-Calc); how thermodynamic modeling is used to design new materials (QuesTek); the engineering simu- lation marketspace (ANSYS); and why it needs concurrent materials information, and how that information can be delivered (ANSYS Granta); how materials information and simulation is used to alter/improve materials-based prod- ucts (TimkenSteel); and what ASM is doing to make sure our materials information can be delivered to all these pro- cesses readily and in the right form(s). Audience members from the National Science Founda- tion, Lockheed Martin, and the National Research Council of Canada all shared with me their enthusiasm for our col- lective presentations, and the suggestion was made that we update and repeat the symposium at later venues, such as AeroMat this coming spring and certainly at IMAT. Some important factoids were mined from the sym- posium: • • If anyone desires to deploy additive manufacturing at any scale, they must start with the (most likely custom-designed) material, and that need will drive demand for materials analytics and information. • • The additive manufacturing marketplace is estimated by reliable surveys to reach $11B in annual revenues, reflecting a 22% growth rate (CAGR) since 2016. • • The engineering simulation marketplace is a $7B annual market, of which ANSYS, as the biggest player, holds $1.4B, and that market is reliably forecast to grow to between $15-20B annually by 2026. ANSYS articulated that this market growth reflects “pervasive simulation” requirements, which prompted them to acquire Granta, to add a materials information layer supporting all the different physics models behind their simulation tools. We are conducting active follow-up meetings with ANSYS on October 25 and in November to plan how ASM’s (and possibly third party) materials information can best be deployed directly into the ANSYS simulation base. We will also be examining other collaboration opportunities such as data consortia and start-up co-investment. ANSYS is also following up with TimkenSteel this month based on opportunities identified between those organizations during the forum. William T. Mahoney, CEO, ASM International bill.mahoney@asminternational.org CEO CORNER