Data Management for Additive Manufacturing

In this insightful webinar, you will learn how MaterialCenter can become your single source of truth, serving as a centralized data source, analytics engine and relationship management tool for all your additive materials and machine data. From this webinar, you will recognize how MaterialCenter can greatly improve reliability of builds by linking process structure property relationships.

Gain insights from real-world examples demonstrating how MaterialCenter for Additive Manufacturing (MC4AM) has delivered enormous value to our customers’ product development cycles through:

• Integration of MaterialCenter into the Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) workflow
• Adherence to data standardization efforts such as ASTM, NIST
• Automated data population across various manufacturing projects

Through collaborations with renowned AM projects, machine OEMs, and aerospace industry leaders, our MaterialCenter for Additive Manufacturing (MC4AM) portal enables our customers to certify additive parts and increase fidelity of the digital twin in today’s smart factories.

Presenters: 

Damian Audus, Senior Business Enablement Leader
Damian graduated his BSc Hons in Business from Southampton Solent University, UK in 2002. From there he started his career in London selling complex enterprise solutions for large multinationals such as IHS, Reed-Elsevier, IBM and Telefonica. By 2016 Damian had moved into the field of Materials Data Management and shortly acquired his expertise in Simulation Process & Data Management after moving to Arizona in 2018 to increase his companies west coast enterprise sales footprint. In 2021 Damian joined Hexagon and has responsibility for enabling the global sales teams to sell Hexagon’s world class enterprise solutions, SimManager and MaterialCenter.

Hunter Macdonald, Consulting Engineer
Hunter Macdonald is a Consulting Engineer with 10 years of experience working in the simulation and data management field. After graduating from West Point with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Hunter spent 5 years in the military stationed with a 1-1 Air Defense Artillery Patriot Missile Battalion in Okinawa, Japan. He then started work with MSC Software (which is now Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division) where he is currently employed. He is also pursuing an advanced degree in Materials Science from the University of Virginia. Hunter specializes in Additive Manufacturing (AM) applications, specifically related to standardization efforts for AM data generation, collection, and utilization. This includes involvement with a NIST sponsored working group to develop an AM Common Data Dictionary, Model, and Exchange Format, and with the ASTM Consortium for Materials Data and Standardization for AM.