TMS is coordinating an ongoing process of shared learning and collaboration through its Materials/Manufacturing Leaders Summit series. The overarching goal of this effort is to establish a forum where diverse industry groups can identify common, pre-competitive opportunities in materials and manufacturing innovation, while also laying the groundwork for collaborative action that can accelerate realization of these opportunities among the materials and manufacturing communities.

Orlando Materials Innovation Principles

Developed as an outcome of the inaugural TMS Materials/Manufacturing Leaders Summit in March 2012, the Orlando Materials Innovation Principles offers guidance on pursuing collaborative efforts across manufacturing disciplines and sectors with the intent of accelerating the materials innovation process. Leaders from major corporations, academic centers, and government laboratories signed the Principles to make known their intent to support these concepts in time for TMS to publicly release the document at a May 2012 U.S. White House event. Additional signatories are welcomed.

2012 TMS Materials/Manufacturing Leaders Summit Presentation Downloads

View the keynote presentations offered at the inaugural TMS Materials/Manufacturing Leaders Summit that helped shape the subsequent dialogue leading to the development of the Orlando Materials Innovation Principles.

2012 TMS Materials/Manufacturing Leaders Summit

This online resource provides meeting materials and background information for attendees of the inaugural TMS Materials/Manufacturing Leaders Summit that took place on March 14 and March 15, 2012, in Orlando, Florida. Please note that this is password protected for use by Summit attendees.