Manufacturing Industry
The new materials age.(Management Strategies)
Industry Week, June, 2004 by Teresko, John
When the call came to turn the Pontiac Solstice concept into reality, GM used digital design and validation to develop the Kappa platform in just 27 months and at a price point of $20,000.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HAS TRANSFORMED MATERIALS SCIENCE, giving product designers the knowledge tools once controlled by specialists and turbo-charging the product-development process.
When a materials research team posited in a 1989 issue of Scientific American that the Age of Materials was over--that it would be replaced by the Era of Information--they were only half right. Instead, the two periods collided, then fused into a new material age, one in which information technology enables manufacturers to better understand and take better advantage of material...
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