What is your take on smart materials?

#Smart materials are important now and will be increasingly important for the future. As we develop more ways of #sensing and continue to investigate the #application of #different #materials in the development of new types of #sensors, #new ways of #recording and #acting upon #external #forces and #stimuli, such as #load, #force, #velocity, #temperature, and so on, will become possible.

Beyond this, the next step to getting #smart is to make use of #data and consider it a valuable #resource. We need to understand this data and #transform it into #knowledge. From the knowledge, we can make #smarter decisions and improve how we act and design new products. The data gives us knowledge on how our #tools or #products are being used each day which enables us to #optimise it. This is important to say predictive #maintenance, whereby, maintenance can be scheduled based on real-time feedback from a #product or #system, ultimately extending the product/systems lifetime.

- Dr. Tim Hosenfeldt believes smart materials will be increasingly important for the future.

                       

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