Intelligent design: Enabling the next materials revolution

Anthony Vicari

Analyst, Advanced Materials

Industry 4.0

June 16, 2015

Materials revolution is ongoing…

Materials Revolution

Energy and Infrastructure

Health and Wellness

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…but increasingly expensive

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Materials R&D is slow

and expensive

Optimized materials fit

smaller market niches

Smarter, more flexible

design and production

methods are needed

IMM will enable the next wave

Information Meets Matter

Energy and Infrastructure

Health and Wellness

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How do I win the materials revolution?

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Digital part design and manufacturing

Digitization and automation of part design, modeling, and production processes

Digital material design

Digitization and automation of materials R&D

Business model innovations enabled by digital platforms

Taking advantage of collaboration to shift cost and risk outside the organization

Digital manufacturing already enables substantial cost reduction

Razor blade company Dorco used 3D printing to reduce the cost of a prototype from $6,700 to $8.20

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Digital manufacturing already enables substantial cost reduction

Nike’s additively manufactured “Flyknit” sneakers save on materials and labor costs

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Multi-material additive manufacturing with improved design software can automatically generate functional parts

Providing developers with superior software tools for designing higher functional parts will ease the path to market

Digital manufacturing is beginning to enable superior products with little to no extra work

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Composite performance strongly depends on fiber path, but most don’t optimize

Providing better modeling and design automation to tweak properties will increase application scope and ease adoption

Digital material and part design could enable superior composites

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Digital material design of metamaterials will enable rapid development of customized properties

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Metamaterial design can take months or years; automation enables high-speed tweaking of material properties with no change in the underlying chemistry

Materials and chemicals companies can leverage metamaterial capabilities to broaden the target market for a single material chemistry

Digital platforms offer new opportunities for innovative business models

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How can you leverage 7 billion minds?

It’s still a revolution – and most of the participants are outside your walls!

There is still a materials revolution…

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…and to the victor go the spoils

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Thank you

Anthony Vicari Analyst anthony.vicari@Luxresearchinc.com +1 857 284 5688