Towards a Sustainable Digital Infrastructure for Advanced Aerospace and Automotive Materials

Otto Fuchs KG in Meinerzhagen/Germany is a leading supplier of forgings in Aerospace and Automotive applications worldwide. Materials technology is a key success factor to create advanced solutions for components made from Nickel based superalloys, Titanium and Aluminium. Materials simulation and materials databases are indispensable elements of the IT-infrastructure and have been actively used for a long time.

Although it is always a potentially painful task to change the database infrastructure for this, Otto Fuchs has decided to upgrade to the Matplus EDA® solution because of functional and cost benefits. 

The new system supports a number of use cases, like

• access to materials data from over 100 years of experience
• multi-site collaboration with labs and customers
• the integration of advanced materials data into the IT-Infrastructure (SAP)
• integrated lab data management for advanced materials tests
• integrated functionality for materials modelling
• support for ICME calculations using JMatPro®
• better usability for MMPDS aerospace standards data
• flexible interfaces to CAD/CAE systems

“After a long evaluation period we decided to upgrade our existing materials data infrastructure to Matplus EDA®. After successful migration of our existing data we now benefit from extended capabilities at lower costs” confirms Thomas Witulski, head of materials and processes at Otto Fuchs.

Uwe Diekmann, CEO of Matplus GmbH, adds: “The integrated materials engineering capabilities and long term sustainability of data are liked most in such demanding environments“