Simcenter Material Data Center is a comprehensive, AI-powered platform that unifies multidisciplinary material data across the product lifecycle, enabling engineers to access validated, simulation-ready properties with full traceability.
Integrated AI-driven tools bridge gaps in material data to streamline material selection, reduce testing costs and improve design accuracy through seamless CAx integration and enterprise-wide collaboration.
Consolidate proprietary and supplier material data in a secure, scalable platform with role-based access and auditable version control,empowering every team with a single source of truth for faster, more confident decisions.
Automatically generate CAx-ready solver cards for Siemens and all major CAE platforms, eliminating manual entry and unit conversion—empowering engineers to accelerate simulation setup and analysis from concept to validation.
Leverage AI and machine learning to generate high-fidelity material models, unlock data-driven insights, predict missing properties and discover material alternatives. Slash physical testing costs and accelerate design cycles.
Tap into 90,000+ curated datasets spanning metals, polymers, composites and advanced materials from 400+ global producers and reputed industry-standard databanks. With multi-domain properties—structural, fatigue, thermal, optical, electromagnetic and manufacturing—engineers have everything needed for high-fidelity simulation in one place, eliminating the time-consuming search across disparate sources.
From first search to final selection, intuitive search, filter and compare functions make finding the right material effortless across environmental compliance, performance and supplier specifics. Visualize trade-offs in a tabular format or polar chart and harness the power of our generative AI Co-pilot for conversational, context-aware guidance—empowering smarter, data-driven material selection.
Deployed as a SaaS or on-premise instance, the platform adapts to your environment with strict role-based access control and robust revision management, ensuring full data traceability. A low-code, no-code platform with a flexible data structure seamlessly manages experimental, statistical and solver-ready datasets - uniting global teams on one trusted material truth, anytime, anywhere.
Access material data from Simcenter Material Data Center directly within Simcenter Hypermesh, Simlab, Inspire, Inspire Mold, Inspire Extrude, Feko and Material Modeler via integrated plug-ins. This seamless integration automatically lists application-suitable materials, enabling engineers to directly download CAE-ready material cards— maximizing productivity within their existing simulation environment.
Seamlessly integrate Simcenter Material Data Center with SAP, PLM and ERP systems through powerful APIs, establishing a robust digital thread across your enterprise. Empower automated, governed data exchange across platforms to eliminate silos, maintain data consistency and enforce regulatory and standards compliance. Enable trusted material information flow effortlessly across your entire product lifecycle.
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Avient replaced inefficient, file-based material data management with Simcenter Material Data Center, creating a single source of truth. The centralized, cloud-hosted platform gave all departments instant access to accurate, revision-controlled material data - improving consistency, easing reporting and enabling seamless customer collaboration.
Automotive engineers rely on Simcenter Material Data Center to access validated, simulation-ready material data for structural, crashworthiness, durability, squeak and rattle, thermal and manufacturing analyses. It drives lightweighting and sustainability goals, maintains restricted substances compliance and delivers on performance, safety and cost targets across vehicle programs.
Aerospace engineers leverage Simcenter Material Data Center to access Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization (MMPDS) data for statistically-based design-allowable properties of steels, aluminum, titanium alloys, superalloys and fasteners, along with high-temperature and additive manufacturing alloys, to maintain regulatory compliance and simulation accuracy across the full product lifecycle.
Electronics manufacturers use Simcenter Material Data Center to access mechanical, thermal, electrical and electromagnetic material properties for semiconductors, polymers, encapsulants, solders and thermal interface materials. It enables accurate multi-physics simulations for PCB design, packaging, heat dissipation, reliability, miniaturization and thermal management in electronic devices.
Manufacturers of heavy equipment use Simcenter Material Data Center to access temperature-dependent JAHM material data for steels, cast irons and other engineering alloys. It enables thermal, creep and fatigue simulations for accurate modeling of long-term performance, reliability and safety under heavy operational loads.
Medical device manufacturers use Simcenter Material Data Center to screen biocompatible materials including polymers, titanium alloys, ceramics and stainless steel for development of implants, prosthetics, surgical instruments and diagnostic equipment. It helps ensure regulatory compliance, patient safety and improved product efficacy.
Material producers leverage Simcenter Material Data Center as a centralized platform to manage, standardize, display and share certified material data. It allows for full traceability, data integrity and audit-ready records. Customers can search, compare and select the right material for their application to accelerate qualification and strengthen trust in material performance.
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