Introduction

Abstract

Digitalization is one of the driving forces of technological and social progress today. In the engineering sciences, in combination with a great variety of quantitatively reliable modelling and simulation approaches, it supports the development known as industry 4.0 by contributing to virtual manufacturing through cyber-physical systems. This is the main topic of this book, where the focus will be on the interoperability aspects of findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data management, and the practical implementation on digital platforms and data infrastructures for materials modelling.