QuesTek Launches ICMD® Digital Materials Design Platform

EVANSTON, Ill., May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- QuesTek® Innovations has launched its ICMD® digital design platform for materials engineering and the development of novel materials. ICMD® enables digital transformation for the materials design and optimization process through a SaaS offering and deployment in private corporate clouds. The software will be made commercially available July 26, 2023, but is now available for early adopters.

ICMD® is a digital platform to transform the traditional experiment-based, trial-and-error process of materials engineering. Similar to how CAD revolutionized the architecture industry, ICMD® dramatically speeds up the process of developing and qualifying new materials by combining a computational physics-based approach with insights from more than 600 QuesTek materials engineering engagements since 1997 for clients such as NASA, SpaceX, Apple, GM, Boeing and Audi.

"Materials have become critical in nearly every sector of our society," says QuesTek COO Bill Mahoney. "Many products have improved to the point that materials are now the constraining factor for performance. ICMD® empowers innovative manufacturers and producers to directly integrate materials engineering into product development."

While using ICMD®, materials engineers can see how changes in the composition and manufacturing process or other variables will impact materials structure and properties such as strength, toughness, corrosion resistance, fatigue and more. They can also start with the material performance that is required, and then identify the specific elemental combinations and processing steps that will produce them.

QuesTek has spent the past year using ICMD® internally to digitally enable service engagements solving materials challenges for clients. Enhanced productivity by simply using the software has enabled QuesTek's commercial materials engineering and consulting business to grow by 70 percent in one year.

Early test and evaluation feedback from a leading research institution and top-tier manufacturers in the aerospace and automotive industries has also helped prepare the ICMD® initial release. QuesTek provides hands-on support for organizations using ICMD® and continues to offer full-service materials design engagements as well as materials consulting.

"To see the materials design process that QuesTek pioneered and the knowledge we have acquired over the past 25 years captured in a software product really opens the future of this industry," says QuesTek president Dr. Jason Sebastian. "ICMD® empowers organizations and individuals to engage more efficiently in materials design than ever before — and I think we're going to see a flood of materials innovations as a result."

To explore how ICMD® can propel your organization forward, visit https://www.questek.com/software/

About QuesTek
QuesTek empowers innovators by resolving materials-based challenges. QuesTek is both a pioneer and current market leader in Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME). QuesTek's Materials by Design® technologies have enabled new products and new thresholds of performance across a wide range of industries including aerospace, automotive, medical devices, consumer electronics and luxury goods. QuesTek's ICMD® SaaS offering has packaged all of QuesTek's IP and knowhow into a client accessible software platform for the first time. QuesTek Innovations is the primary operating subsidiary of QuesTek International LLC and is headquartered in Evanston, Illinois. QuesTek has additional locations in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Solna, Sweden; and Tokyo. questek.com

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