New Markets/Opportunities through Availability of Product Life Cycle Data

Advances in Metal Casting Technology: A Review of State of the Art, Challenges and Trends—Part II: Technologies New and Revived

“…Endowing components of all kinds with some level of intelligence is an ongoing trend [237]. The purposes are manifold and include the monitoring and control of production or logistic processes [238], as well as the constant supervision of the components' state-the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) case [239]-and the gathering of usage data [240] to optimize next generation product design [241] or facilitate predictive maintenance [242,243], to name but a few application scenarios. The motivation behind these can naturally be transferred to any kind of component, irrespective of the manufacturing process.…”