Ansys is the world leader for CAD/CAM and multiphysics engineering simulation software for product design, testing and operation and offers its software products and services to customers worldwide. The Ansys Materials Business Unit has a core business for design and development of software products related to materials information management, data, and tools (eco-design, restricted substances, critical materials assessment, materials selection and substitution), several of which integrate with CAD/CAE/PLM. Ansys Materials contributes to networks and standardization bodies and supports a number of industry standard commercial databases for materials such as metals, composites, polymers, and medical devices. Ansys also produces and maintains several leading data products including Materials Universe (a database of over 4,000 commercially available engineering materials including technical, ecological and cost attributes for each material and its associated processes) and the Product Risk database which incorporates one of the leading resources on restricted substances as well as critical and conflict minerals risks and data needed for streamlined life cycle analysis.