Material Selection Based on a Product and Production Engineering Integration Framework

Material selection is an essential aspect of engineering processes of both products and production systems, and often crucial for the success of the resulting products. In practical engineering, however, material selection is often executed in a hands-on manner and not based on an integrated optimization process taking all relevant product and production engineering aspects into account. This contribution presents a formalized approach to better support material selection decisions. The approach is part of an overall material-oriented development methodology and features a material selection method which takes product, production process and material information into account in an integrated way.