Return On Investment in Thermo-Calc & DICTRA

In general, the greatest savings can be made in two major areas:

Time: The use of computational thermodynamics with Thermo-Calc and DICTRA speeds up the inovative operations and thus decrease the time to market new products and/or publication of reports and papers.
Costs: The efficiency in experimental testing in laboratories and/or full scale tests can be improved by for example reduced number of tests.

Below is some example of this:

Capitalizing on computational tools inindustrial alloy development

JOM, Jan 2002 by Fahramann M G, Smith, G D

"This paper presents an example of how Thermo-Calc was used at Special Metals Corporation to cut alloy development cycle time, and thus, the cost, by greatly reducing the number of the traditional experimental trials. Experimental evidence for the success of this approach is provided."