Call for Standardization in Material Behavior Assessment Systems Output Formats

During the development of a central platform that connects measuring systems, simulators and fabrication machinery through internet, helping the metal forming process chain, the biggest challenge turned out to be something surprising. The biggest challenge was not finding the correct technology to communicate a high load of data through the internet or circumvent firewalls or security. The biggest challenge turned out to be implementing the extraction of data from measurement results to be used in simulations. This data needs to be prepared by lab assistants. Because of the different result formats using pre-defined patterns is impossible so the researchers are forced to define their own extraction pattern which is extremely complicated. A common data format standard should be followed by all the measuring system manufacturers so the generated data can be easily processed and shared between different systems without demanding extensive programming knowledge from researchers.