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Materials by Design® – proven technology for materials design and engineering.
"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."
- Race Engine Technology, 2023
"The introduction of ICMD® is expected to not only shorten and streamline the development period of high-performance specialty steels but also contribute to improving the stability of quality during production"
- Daido Steel, Annual Report 2024
"QuesTek's patented alloys have been optimized to produce desirable properties unique to the AM process."
- Metal AM, 2022
"The idea (Materials Concurrency) is to accelerate the adoption of new materials and processes- helping bridge the gap between materials science and part design."
- Tesla Materials Applications team, Elektrek, 2021
"QuesTek improved (AFRL’s) understanding of the micro- and macro-structure level variability… to advance the accuracy of modelling and simulation for AM metal."
- 1st Place citation, AFRL Additive Manufacturing Modelling Challenge, thru America Makes, 2021
"QuesTek’s Ferrium® M54 steel progressed from clean-sheet design to flight-qualified, production…parts (in a fractional) timeframe typical for flight-critical components."
- NIST Materials Genome Initiative Report, 2018
"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."
- Illinois Science and Technology Coalition Roadmap, 2014
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).”
Jim WarrenDirector, MGI
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QuesTek utilizes our ICMD® materials design and engineering software to serve clients through engagements structured as a sequence of deliverables, based on client needs. Clients can now subscribe to have the power of ICMD® and our Materials by Design® technology in the hands of their engineers.
Engagements typically start with an analysis of materials challenges, analysis and data. To advance the solution further, clients then engage for modelling, which includes additional analysis and data.
QuesTek ICMD® Cloud Based Software
ICMD® is Your Materials Challenge Solution –
QuesTek’s ICMD® Materials Design Software includes:
QuesTek’s ICMD® Materials Design Software includes:
- Toolkits for Materials Design
- Accelerated Qualification and Certification
- Informatics and Analysis
- Simulation
It’s time for Digital Transformation
- Optimal resource deployment
- Highly accurate ICME models
- Prescriptive parametric materials design
- Materials performance prediction
- Materials concurrency
When using ICMD®, individual engineers saved between 20-80% of the prior execution durations of various steps or phases of delivering service engagements.
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Materials by Design® Technology
QuesTek applies its proprietary technology under three proven, fundamental methodologies.