In this review, we discuss current and potential future applications for materials informatics in industry. We include in this discussion not only the traditional materials and chemical industries, but also other manufacturing-intensive sectors, which broadens the relevance of materials informatics to a large proportion of the economy. We describe several high-level use cases, drawing upon our experience at Citrine Informatics working in materials and manufacturing, although we omit any details that could be considered customer-proprietary. We note that a converging set of factors, including executive-level corporate demand for Big Data technologies, increasing availability of large-scale materials data, drive for greater competitiveness in manufacturing, and advances in machine learning, will lead to a rapid increase in industrial application of materials informatics over the next several years.

在这篇综述中，我们讨论了材料信息学在工业中的当前和潜在的未来应用。在此讨论中，我们不仅包括传统的材料和化学工业，还包括其他制造业密集型部门，这些部门将材料信息学的相关性扩展到很大一部分经济领域。尽管我们忽略了可能被视为客户专有的任何细节，但我们根据在Citrine Informatics在材料和制造领域的工作经验，描述了几个高级用例。我们注意到，一系列因素融合在一起，包括执行层级公司对大数据技术的需求，大型材料数据可用性的提高，在制造业中提高竞争力的动力以及机器学习的进步，