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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 | J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 2 0 7 3 IMAT 2020 IMAT 2020 Update Materials 4.0 Materials Information in the Product Life Cycle: Workshop on Accelerating the Digital Thread Dave Furrer (Pratt & Whitney) and James Warren (NIST) We invite you to attend the half-day IMAT 2020 work- shop entitled “Accelerating the Digital Thread.” Representatives of Pratt & Whitney, NIST, ISO, AFRL, PNNL, UTC, NASA, GE, and ASM International propose to gather a diverse group of individuals from professional societies, standards organizations, industry/manufactur- ing, and the overall materials community to highlight the “hot issues” facing all these groups and discuss pathways to improved solutions. To initiate these discussions, we suggest a quarter-day of invited papers and a quarter-day workshop. We will address the current thinking about the critical requirements for a data infrastructure throughout the mate- rials community that are needed to enable the ambitious goals of ICME, Digital Thread, and Materials Discovery. We have developed a list of questions (not complete) that could be addressed: 1. What elements of data infrastructures in your industrial, supply chain, or organizational infrastructure are you using? 2. What data infrastructures are missing? What do you want? 3. How interoperable is interoperable enough? 4. What demonstration problem should we develop? 5. Does the materials and manufacturing community have a roadmap? 6. What is preventing you from fully capturing the data you generate in a format that enables you to fully utilize it for specific benefits? 7. How are you providing data to and obtaining data from your supply chain and customers seamlessly? Is this critical for tangible value? If so, what is enabling or stopping you? 8. How is the cost of capturing and managing data limiting the ability to fully utilize the data that you are generating? What developments would lower this cost? ment during a challenging time and enable us to continue providing the type of support our members count on for their careers and professional development. As always, please feel free to reach out to me or other ASMBoardmembers if youhave any questions or comments. ASM President Zi-Kui Liu, FASM zi-kui.liu@asminternational.org ASM Appoints Acting Managing Director On May 20, the ASM International Board of Trustees named Ron Ader- hold acting managing director. In this role, he will be responsible for Society operations reporting to the Board of Trustees. The selection of Aderhold by the Board creates an orderly transition that will not interrupt any of the ser- vices or programming ASM provides to its members. Aderhold has been with ASM for over four years, serv- ing as both chief operating officer and chief information officer. In those roles, he led the ASM team through the Dig- ital Transformation, which resulted in four new enterprise systems and seven major interfaces. Most notable is a new Digital Library, which contains about 60% of ASM’s legacy content, to date. Other tangible benefits for ASM members include Ring Central/Zoom licenses for Chapter meetings, an improved eCommerce system for website purchases, and the new ASM Connect platform, which provides mem- bers with networking and collaborating tools. He continues to work closely with members and the IT staff to map out ASM’s data management strategy. Commenting on how the Digital Transformation bene- fits ASM in the present climate, Aderhold states, “The COVID- 19 pandemic has accelerated the move to digital. There is an immediate need to use our virtual modes nowmore than ever when we cannot physically be together. ASM adapted quickly because our systems were upgraded and many digi- tal components were already in place.” Prior toASM, Aderhold’s experience includes academia, the automotive and banking industries, metals/mining sec- tors, and military. He has worked in both not-for-profit and for-profit organizations. He was a staff sergeant serving in the U.S. Air Force during Desert Storm and holds a B.S. in computer science from Southern Illinois University. With a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Aderhold runs an academy devoted to the practice on the east side of Cleveland. Feel free to contact Ron Aderhold at ron.aderhold@ asminternational.org for questions regarding Society busi- ness or to share your thoughts as a member. Aderhold