"This [QuesTek] digital twin of the process can be created and calibrated with very few empirical samples...thereby saving months and even years of development time as well as extensive, costly materials testing."

"QuesTek’s ICME approach has dramatically streamlined (our materials) investigations and changed the way we think about materials development."

"QuesTek's patented alloys have been optimized to produce desirable properties unique to the AM process."

"The idea (Materials Concurrency) is to accelerate the adoption of new materials and processes- helping bridge the gap between materials science and part design."

"QuesTek improved (AFRL’s) understanding of the micro- and macro-structure level variability… to advance the accuracy of modelling and simulation for AM metal."

"QuesTek’s Ferrium^® M54 steel progressed from clean-sheet design to flight-qualified, production…parts (in a fractional) timeframe typical for flight-critical components."

"QuesTek considerably accelerates the development of novel alloys, enabling customers from a range of industries to reduce the cost of testing and deploying new alloys by millions of dollars."

QuesTek has been using ICME techniques as its core technology to solve alloy development problems for a variety of industrial clients for several decades. In support of the MGI, in 2016, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) supported several Quantitative Benchmark for Time to Market Framework case studies, one of which was the QuesTek alloy Ferrium M54,[3] which was developed in about six years from conception to deployment on a US Navy aircraft (far shorter than the usual fifteen to twenty years typical of alloy development and deployment times).”