ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | MAY/JUNE 2024 34 Digital Transformation. ASM has made huge strides on the digital front in recent years. The ASM Digital Library now contains Handbooks, technical books, conference proceedings, and magazine articles. Members have access to 769 Advanced Materials & Processes technical articles from 2012 onward and 450 Electronic Device Failure Analysis articles from 1998 to present. ASM Handbook volumes are now published as digital-first segments before the full publication release. Technical Committees such as Residual Stress and Materials Informatics are developing new Handbook content in this digital forward manner. In addition, a new series of Key Topics in Materials Science and Engineering consists of digital-only technical books. Internal surveys have shown that data and software tools are increasingly important to ASM members and the materials science community. In addition, materials informatics, which encompasses such tools, was listed as a key market driver in our research. To address those needs and the market opportunity, this year marked the launch of the ASM Global Materials Platform PRO, a new materials data and information resource (Fig. 2). The platform merges ASM’s comprehensive data from the Alloy Center Database with the advanced capabilities and data of the Total Materia platform. Another product offering in this sector, the ASM Materials Platform for Data Science (MPDS), continues to be the world’s largest and most comprehensive repository of inorganic materials data. Interdisciplinary Growth. The events and education areas of ASM have formed partnerships with numerous other societies and entities to increase our reach in other engineering disciplines. New initiatives this year include event partnerships with the International Federation for Heat Treatment (IFHTSE), the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). As these new pro- spective members attend our events, it provides an opportunity to introduce them to other benefits of ASM membership. Similarly, ASM’s Education Department has developed relationships with the American Foundry Society and ASTM International for co-hosting online courses. New courses are being developed, including the most recent Metal Additive Manufacturing and Thermal Processing, which directly responds to one of the key market drivers outlined at the outset (Fig. 3). Efforts are also underway to have ASM’s top-selling course, Metallurgy for the Non-Metallurgist, provided onsite at key, large corporations where employees from various disciplines can learn the basics of materials science. Each of these efforts helps to raise ASM’s brand awareness in adjacent disciplines, which can lead to an increased number of non-members attending our events and courses as well as purchasing our products and services. Globalization. To boost our presence around the world, ASM continues to offer reciprocal membership opportunities with IOM3 in the U.K. and 2SFM in France. On the events front, this year ASM is hosting conferences in several global destinations including HT Mexico in Queretaro; ITSC in Milan, Italy; SMST in Cascais, Portugal; North American Cold Spray in Boucherville, Canada; and a Thermal Spray and PVD Coatings event in Limoges, France. Other ASM activities to grow partner- ships and members are being explored in Africa, Australia, China, Italy, and India. In addition, ASM is developing products designed to empower engineers and researchers around the world. As an example, all the information provided in the recently launched ASM Global Materials Platform PRO is available in 26 languages. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The focus on DEI has led to an increase in membership and engagement among underrepresented populations in ASM. The verbiage on ASM award rules and Fig. 2 — The ASM Global Materials Platform PRO provides critical software and data tools for the materials science community. Fig. 3 — ASM has developed a new course on metals- based additive manufacturing to address market growth in that sector. Courtesy of Aleksey Popov/ Dreamstime.
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