Partnerships and OEM Solutions

The core activities of the member companies include: design and engineering of parts and vehicles, manufacturing and marketing of automotive materials, components, modules and car parts. They also perform services related to the manufacturing and maintenance of vehicles and associated equipment.

Key to Metals AG, as the global leader in the provision of material properties information, will actively contribute to the technical activity of ACAROM by supplying its members with the possibility to use the most comprehensive informational material properties platform in the world.

The activity of AIPE is mainly based on research and cooperation with institutes and both national and international universities. The intent is to enhance technical, scientific and economic development of the associates through active participation and organization of meetings, events and trainings according to its guidelines based on the sharing of resources and information.

Key to Metals AG, is the global leader in the provision of material properties information, and wants to actively contribute to the technical/ scientific activity of AIPE by supplying to the associates the possibility to use the most comprehensive informational material properties platform in the world.

Just one of the solutions offered by Altair is the Altair Partner Alliance, an on-demand software platform that includes statistical, database, visualization and simulation software to help companies make better business decisions.

Key to Metals AG joined the Altair Partner Alliance in January 2012 and since then has proved to be one of the most popular partner applications available to the APA user community. With a continually increasing number of users from over 200 organizations worldwide there are now in excess of 450 users which benefit from Key to Metals AG across the world.

Visit our partner page at Altair Partner Alliance or take a tour of our Premium Edition for Partner Alliance users.

In addition to the software offering, CYBERNET SYSTEMS provides a range of all-encompassing technical services, including technical support, consulting and user education.

Key to Metals AG and CYBERNET SYSTEMS launched their new product together for CYBERNET customers in December 2012. Consisting of an exclusively developed desktop edition Key to Metals AG has created the technology to allow CYBERNET end users to export data from the database to an ANSYS solver ready xml. format bridging the gap between our data and the end users computational software packages.

See more about the KEY to METALS CYBERNET edition (Japanese language only).

Knovel is an engineering information, discovery and decision-support solution from Elsevier that provides answers engineers can trust by delivering vital technical data with powerful engineering search and analytical tools through a cloud-based application. Knovel users include thousands of engineers, engineering students and applied scientists worldwide.

We analyze damages and support recall actions, conduct research and develop innovations as well as ensure quality through laboratory investigations.

Important facts: 40 years of experience, 12 laboratories and workshops, over 15,000 orders, over 2,000 customers, three locations, accredited, privately owned. With AZT Risk & Technology GmbH , we maintain a partnership laboratory for the analysis of damages.

INMAS has widespread application as they cover standards found in practically all industrial applications. The main focus areas for our clients relate to product quality as well as the processes within the organization, product safety and cooperation with business partners. For this reason, diversity is the most important requirement of our actions. Critically, process-oriented standard management systems are specifically designed to maximize cost savings and Intra Norma is the tool to make this happen.

The development of future technology instruments and systems for industry and research, requests the combination of core competences in the areas of low temperature physics and high magnet technology, X-ray and optical measurement methods, tunnel and scanning electron microscopy as well as plasma coating and etching processes.

In the field of optical emission spectroscopy for metal analysis the metal properties database of Total Materia is included in all products to substantially facilitating metal identification and compliance with standards and specifications.

Visit www.oxford-instruments.com for more information.

An official partner of Siemens, Key to Metals AG gives some unique advantages to Siemens PLM software users by providing a vast collection of material data and in Extended Range, the ability to find advanced material properties for complex linear and non-linear calculations all at the click of a button. As the most comprehensive material data solution available, Key to Metals AG works in synergy and fits excellently into the streamlined efficiency of the PLM environment.

Visit Total Materia’s page on the Siemens website to find out more.

Key to Metals AG have provided an invaluable solution to SPECTRO customers since 2008 by providing a material database solution specifically developed for XRF and OES users and intended to help identify materials from the chemical composition data obtained from the spectrometry device. Exclusively for SPECTRO, Key to Metals AG provides the Grade Library Builder as part of the SPECTRO Metal Database which allows the creation and management of material libraries which can be modified and then exported directly to the device.

As one of three business units, Thermo Scientific offer analytical instruments, laboratory equipment, software, services, consumables and reagents including a wide range of Spectrometry solutions.

Key to Metals AG and Thermo Scientific have been working together since 2010 providing end users of Optical Emission Spectrometry (OES) with a bespoke version of the Key to Metals AG desktop edition. As part of the product offering users receive full access to the Core dataset allowing metallic materials chemical composition data to be checked, compared and exported directly to OXSAS for comparison with analyzed data obtained from the OES.

Read more about the Key to Metals AG offering through Thermo Fisher Scientific.