In every development project, choosing the suitable material is a crucial decision with many interdependencies, and especially in globally distributed value chains, this becomes a challenging task. Material Data Access and availability affect engineering, sourcing, technical purchasing, and needs to address many interests. Beyond material properties to improve performance predictions, more and more sustainability aspects have to be addressed. Learn from Julien Lebranchu, Head of Technical Data Management, how DuPont manages material data, distributes material data to their clients, and their way forward to improve material data comprehensiveness and availability.

Presented as part of Altair's 2021 Future.Industry Conference.

What are some of the innovative technologies/methodologies under R&D to support lightweighting? How have some the latest solutions demonstrated advancements over current industry state-of-the-art standards? What are the lightweighting trends driving the development of technologies in automotive engineering? Meet a few of the Altair Enlighten Award winners for answers to these questions and more! Moderated by Altair's Richard Yen, the webinar highlights the success of the Altair Enlighten Award in elevating initiatives to advance vehicle lightweighting. A panel discussion with leading industry pioneers Frank Billotto from DuPont, Matt Murphy from MSC, Marco Goia from Marelli, and Dr. Stefan Herrmann from csi Group reviews how technology advancements in materials, production processes, design methods, and joining technologies have advanced the impetus for vehicle lightweighting. The panel explores novel, emerging technology solutions, and how they are significantly advancing lightweighting for vehicles.

The webinar and panel discussion was hosted by Altair in conjunction with the Center of Automotive Research (CAR) on March 24, 2021, and is about an hour long.

How to choose the right material, the right design, and the right process to develop solutions that minimize carbon emissions and bolster your bottom line.

A step-by-step guide for transforming your plastics engineering value chain to develop solutions that optimize performance, minimize carbon emissions, and gain a competitive edge.

What you will learn:

• Material selection and testing to minimize carbon emissions with Global Warming Potential evaluations alongside traditional performance and cost metrics
• A step-by-step simulation-driven approach to accelerate design space creation, explore variants, and better optimize lightweight plastic parts
• Ways to predict and prevent critical problems such as injection mold core fractures or failures to optimize production operations
• Improve manufacturability using multiscale material modeling
• How to gain a competitive edge with faster time to market through first-time-right injection molding methods, simulation and rapid variant analyses to optimize part, mold and parameters for manufacturing

Altair solutions enable X-Plast to improve a structural part for Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems. Owing to its low environmental impact, rail is one of the most sustainable means of transportation. To ensure a safe and reliable operation of railway components for more than 30 years these parts have to be strong and durable to meet the many requirements. They must withstand extreme temperature and climate conditions, as well as vibrations and high mechanical loads, even impact from stones.