Imagine…

A system so simple and effective that any designer, anywhere, could target up to date materials data - with Internet speed and flexibility

…that you could supply information tailored to the specific needs of each user - in their format, for their preferred parameters, for their material types

…that you could add any material and any parameter, at any time - and visualize properties as graphs and images, not just raw numbers

…that related components, all dependent assemblies, and all material properties could be found visually, quickly, and intuitively. And from any starting point.

…that you could attach corporate knowledge, design advice, supplier information or any relevant documents - even track the materials history for any of your components

…that the system was accessible over company intranet or secure Internet links from any available PC, laptop or workstation - no special software required 1000s of properties, 100s of materials, 10s of suppliers - and a new designer wants to find the best material to use. That anyone could find the material they needed within 5 minutes

Imagine?

It`s only the beginning of the ICE-flow Materials potential…

The right data, at the right time, every time

One of the key decisions in the design process is selecting the optimum material for the design. Should we use steel, aluminum, or powdered metal for a component? What are the fatigue properties of the material at elevated temperature? How can the data be loaded into the analysis process reliably? How can a new team member learn from the experience of others? In a fast moving, time pressured environment, finding the design parameters for the material of choice may take second place to using an already known material. And that`s an unacceptable and unnecessary compromise.

ICE-flow provides timely access to the latest materials information over the Internet from a central location. Users can browse through files of materials, and upload data for more reliable design analyses and material choice.

More than just a regular database

Of course, ICE-flow can handle any type of material (metals, plastics, polymers, etc.); cope with any material property (tensile, impact, S-N fatigue, E-N fatigue, high temp fatigue, fracture mechanics, creep, wear… ); deal with raw data and parametric data and in any order; handle photographic results (microstructure, fractographs, and so on); include manufacturer`s information; handle data upload from multiple labs - as well as store reports. The big differentiator is its scope and flexibility - and the fact that it was developed by nCode, a company with years of experience in materials testing, fatigue analysis and engineering.

Scalable Solutions

Designed specifically for engineering and materials applications, ICE-flow provides a scalable, configurable, and integrated workflow environment that delivers fast, efficient, and traceable processing of data. The system integrates a variety of off-the-shelf software modules to form a solution that can address most customer needs and budgets. It can meet the needs of a small team, and can be expanded into a large-scale solution with multiple servers at various sites around the world. The ICE-flow system was developed under ISO9001-2001 approved quality procedures.

While ICE-flow has been designed to address the majority of Material Data management applications, there will always be occasions where special cases exist - perhaps to incorporate legacy data, to link into a new corporate PLM system, to embed proprietary algorithms, or simply just to run a process in a novel way. ICE-flow can be tuned to a specific task either by the user or by nCode engineers. We understand durability and materials - and in reality, this is a big part of getting these process-oriented systems to work. No other vendor is this knowledgeable, this experienced, this willing to help.