Matereality has announced the availability of DatabasePro, with which it says engineers can start organizing their material data collection on a private cloud and apply Matereality's software to help them work with their data.
DatabasePro is part of Matereality's 5.0 software release combining Matereality's data storage platform with new engineer-focused software designed to enhance user understanding of material data.
Data collections of individual users can be upgraded for workgroup collaboration with an eventual path toward organizing the material data of the enterprise.
With Release 5.0, Matereality provides a support framework to assist engineers and enterprises with their material data needs. Individuals can buy access to the Global Data Center or collect their own material data with Personal Material DatabasePro. Design and development groups can upgrade to Workgroup Material DatabasePro, a collaborative private cloud where members access their own data as well as the group’s data. All Workgroup-relevant data is controlled and always available, says Matereality, regardless of vacation or personnel changes.
The new DatabaseBuilder allows users to upload data from any source, whether a test instrument, an Excel sheet, or even an existing CAE material model file, according to the company. Data can be drawn seamlessly from other certified data sources within Matereality’s Global Data Center. In response to a 2010 CARHS Automotive CAE Grand Challenge, DatabaseBuilder also allows users to reverse engineer material data from pre-existing CAE material cards, enabling the data to be re-purposed for other CAE.
"Engineers and product developers no longer need to use Excel to process and store material properties while they wait for their enterprises to make a material database decision,” says Renu Gandhi, VP, Matereality. “Constructing a material database is no longer a six-figure budget item. The process is straightforward and there is little maintenance required."
