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Norbert Papenfuß

After diploma in Physical Engineering Science at the TU Berlin, Papenfuss worked 2000-2004 for the Materials-Science-Institute at the RWTH Aachen. 2001-2004 he was Head of the Modelling and Simulation Group and received his Doctor degree at the RWTH Aachen in 2004. 2005 he started working at the BMW AG as a process planner in the surface technology. After leading the simulation team of the surface technology, he became head of the company’s materials data management in 2013 and implemented the WIAM software at BMW. Since 2019 he is responsible for customer relationship and innovations at the WIAM GmbH in Dresden.

Presentation

The digital material twin accompanying the automotive product development process

The process of developing products in the automotive sector is complex and tedious. Materials data used by many process players has continuously increasing importance along this process chain. Besides standards and literature, test data from laboratory tasks is an important, valuable and time-consuming source of material information. Having many process players using huge amounts of data from manifold sources in various contexts creates a "Tower of Babel" situation for most companies. The use of a digital material twin combined with staff training and supporting tools are the key to enable process control and traceability.