Cloud-Based Materials and Product Realization—Fostering ICME Via Industry 4.0

• Published in: Integrating materials and manufacturing innovation Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 107 - 121
• Main Authors: Nellippallil, Anand Balu, Ming, Zhenjun, Allen, Janet K., Mistree, Farrokh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 15.06.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: 5th World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Chemistry and Materials Science; Cloud computing; Collaboration; Design; Digitization; Hot rolling; Industrial applications; Industry 4.0; Innovations; Manufacturing; Materials engineering; Materials Science; Metallic Materials; Nanotechnology; Product development; Software development; Structural Materials; Structural steels; Surfaces and Interfaces; Thematic Section: 5th World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering; Thin Films; Cloud-based design for ICME; Collaboration and sharing in design
• ISSN: 2193-9764; 2193-9772
• DOI: 10.1007/s40192-019-00139-2

Facilitating integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) in the digitized world necessitates facilitating a network of participants (material scientists, systems designers, software developers, service customers) to share material/product/manufacturing process/market data, information, knowledge, and resources instantly and collaborate so as to facilitate a cost-effective co-creation of value supporting open innovation. Industry 4.0, a transformative industrial revolution with its new product development paradigms like cloud-based design and cloud-based manufacturing, supports this need. In this paper, we present the architecture and functionalities of a cloud-based computational platform to facilitate mass collaboration and open innovation thereby supporting integrated material and product realization to institutionalize ICME in industry. We illustrate the efficacy of the proposed cloud-based platform using a hot rolling example problem to produce a steel rod. Using this example, we illustrate the utility of the cloud-based platform in seamless, yet controllable, information, knowledge, and resource sharing thereby supporting the integrated design of materials, products, and manufacturing processes.