MAY 20226MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY INSIGHTSRemarkable advances in structural materials technologies have been made in the past 25 years. New structural materials--metals, ceramics, polymers or hybrid materials derived from these, called composites--open a promising avenue in manufacturing industries. Their superior properties, such as the high temperature strength of ceramics or the high stiffness and light weight of composites, offer the opportunity for more compact designs, greater fuel efficiency and longer service life in a wide variety of products.Various forming operations have direct bearing on the class of advanced materials. The present review discusses some of these aspects of advanced materials with particular emphasis on applications in automobile, cutting tool and defense industries.Recently, however, several emerging technologies are letting material engineers more freely tinker and iterate to see results from their work much more rapidly. As a result, designers and engineering teams developing advanced materials can test out more ideas, discovering more solutions to pressing problems, faster than ever.The rise of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) is probably the single most significant development in the field of advanced materials design over the past decade. ML algorithms simply make materials design much more intuitive than before. They let material engineers make a design change and get immediate feedback about how that new material performs.Finally, the growth of high-fidelity, micro-level 3D printing puts the "materials" in "materials design." Rather than waiting weeks to see designs brought to life via manufacturers' prototypes, engineers can use 3D printers from their labs (or, depending on their budget, even from their basements) and see real-world results of their efforts in nearly real time. And for people without ready access to a 3D printer, companies like Amazon are now offering 3D printing as an on-demand, "as-a-service" option.The combination of AI and AR lets humans for the first time interactively design at the "ultimate" scale of atoms. Taken together with the other tech trends mentioned it greatly expands what is possible for advanced materials designers.Let us know your thoughts.The Acceleration of Leveraging Advanced MaterialsEDITORIALCopyright © 2022 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof. Editor-in-ChiefLaura DavisEditorial StaffSalesVisualizerChris LynnAnnie Mathewsannie@manufacturingtechnologyinsights.comAva Gracia Peter ThomasRose DcruzAaron PaulTECHNOLOGY INSIGHTSTECHNOLOGY INSIGHTSLaura DavisEditor-in-ChiefManufacturing Technology InsightsWrite to useditor@manufacturingtechnologyinsights.comEmail:sales@manufacturingtechnologyinsights.comeditor@manufacturingtechnologyinsights.commarketing@manufacturingtechnologyinsights.com MAY - 02 - 2022, Vol 08 - Issue 07 (ISSN 2644-2493) Published by ValleyMedia, Inc. To subscribe to Manufacturing Technology InsightsVisit www.manufacturingtechnologyinsights.com Disclaimer :*Some of the Insights are based on our interviews with CIOs and CXOs
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