Newswise — May 14, 2012—Warrendale, PA—More than 30 leaders representing a broad cross-section of the materials and manufacturing communities are the initial signatories to the Orlando Materials Innovation Principles, released by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). The Principles provide guidance on pursuing collaborative efforts with the intent of accelerating the materials innovation process to drive manufacturing and economic growth. They were developed as an outcome of the TMS Materials/Manufacturing Leaders Summit on March 15, 2012, in Orlando, Florida, that drew on the expertise of 50 thought leaders to identify approaches addressing the challenges presented by the U.S. Materials Genome Initiative (MGI). TMS organized the Summit in cooperation with the U.S. Council on Competitiveness.
To date, the initial signatories to the Orlando Materials Innovation Principles are: 3M, A123 Systems, Alcoa, Battelle, Boeing, Carnegie Mellon University, Carpenter Technology Corporation, Corning, Cowles Consulting, Cummins Inc., Deere & Company, Dow Chemical, DuPont, ESI North America, Ford Motor Company, GE Aviation, General Motors, Intermolecular Inc., Johns Hopkins University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mercury Marine, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, QuesTek Innovations, Sandia National Laboratories, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), Thermo-Calc Software, Inc., Timken, University of California, Davis, University of Michigan, Worchester Polytechnic Institute, and wTe Corporation.
The Principles call upon the diversity of disciplines and industrial sectors vital to the U.S. manufacturing economy to work synergistically on developing a more dynamic approach to materials innovation. Specifically, the Principles are:
• To work as a community to demonstrate accelerated materials discovery, development, deployment, and manufacturing through pre-competitive projects that address significant national goals.
• To actively incorporate integrated computational materials engineering tools and concepts to accelerate commercial product development, design, and manufacturing across all industries.
• To create a materials innovation infrastructure with common resources for data and knowledge sharing that can be openly utilized for model development and validation.
• To support educational initiatives to train the current and future workforce in materials innovation tools and the concurrent materials/design/manufacturing mindset.
Launched in June 2011, the Materials Genome Initiative is a multi-stakeholder effort to develop an innovation infrastructure that accelerates materials discovery and deployment. It will support the development of computational tools, software, new methods for material characterization, and the development of open standards and databases that will make the process of discovery and development of advanced materials faster, less expensive, and more predictable.
“Industry leadership in this effort is essential,” said Warren Hunt, TMS executive director. “The innovation tools emerging from the MGI and related initiatives will only deliver the economic benefits that they promise if industry effectively uses those tools.”
For additional background on the development of the Orlando Materials Innovation Principles, as well as information on becoming a signatory, visit the Orlando Materials Innovation Principles website.
About TMSTMS is a member-driven international professional society dedicated to fostering the exchange of learning and ideas across the entire range of materials science and engineering, from minerals processing and primary metals production, to basic research and the advanced applications of materials.
Building on its recognized leadership in integrated computational materials engineering (ICME), TMS has committed to facilitating the development of a new innovation infrastructure that unifies and streamlines materials design and manufacturing processes. Embodying this commitment is TMS’s new strategic initiative—Materials Innovation @ TMS.
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