Materials Systems Laboratory
The Materials Systems Laboratory (MSL) analyzes the competitive position of materials and the strategic implications of materials choice in the automotive, electronic, and aerospace industries.
To develop this knowledge, MSL has worked extensively on classic engineering process modeling for the past two decades. Modeling elements have been married to elements of product design, material properties, and manufacturing assumptions to yield tools that can estimate the costs of product manufacture under a wide range of conditions.
MSL also has developed techniques for understanding how markets respond to the different combinations of engineering and economic performance available by using different materials. Further, MSL researchers analyze the environmental consequences of materials and process choice, incorporating the emerging life-cycle analysis paradigm.
MSL is a program of the Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development.
Recent Submissions
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Materials Availability and the Supply Chain: Risks, Effects, and Responses
(2007-01-17)Supply chain stakeholders should be aware of the stresses that supply chains place on materials use and the vulnerability of the supply base for that material to change. The question of materials availability is an issue ... -
Appendix 1 for Fuchs and Kirchain's Journal of Lightwave Technology paper, "Process Based Cost Modeling of Photonics Manufacture"
(2006-07-18)These tables summarize the designs studied as part of the Microphotonics Consortium Roadmapping Project and are referenced in Fuchs, E. and Kirchain, R. 2006 "Process Based Cost Modeling of Photonics Manufacture: ... -
Automobile Recycling Policy: Findings and Recommendations
(1994-02)This report focuses on recycling. As an objective neutral party, MIT has compiled a knowledge base that examines the many complex issues relating to re-cycling. Although this report was prepared at the request of the ...
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