[April 2002]

The A to Z of Materials, Launches "AskAZoM"
Natural Language Materials Information Search Tool and Online Expert System

AZoM.com Pty. Ltd. (www.azom.com)announces the official launch of the "AskAZoM" search tool.

Based on the latest knowledge management software tools and following 2 years of development, "AskAZoM" allows engineers and designers to find answers to their material problems by asking questions in their own words.

Typical questions "AskAZoM" answers are:
"How does titanium perform in chloride environments"
"I need a scratch resistant paint"
"Give me advice on free machining stainless steels"

Dr. Ian Birkby, CEO of AZoM.com believes the "AskAZoM" search tool will make a significant impact on how materials information is disseminated and on how materials are marketed. "We are very excited by the power of the "AskAZoM" tool. For the first time ever, the users of materials have available a tool which performs like their favourite supplier expert but is available 24 hours a day, every day, at zero cost".

"Where material suppliers have provided us with information on their materials, "AskAZoM" is there to answer the questions their customers are
asking".

AZoM.com is currently working with several major material manufacturers, research organisations and trade bodies to help them extract the maximum advantage from their materials application data and case histories. Dr.Birkby explains, "To date, every material organisation we have talked to has immediately recognized the benefits "AskAZoM" can provide to their business by acting as an automated front line sales person."

About AZoM.com
www.azom.com provides free access to a wide range of material information, including metals, ceramics, polymers, composites and coatings and has been designed specifically to suit the requirements of designers, engineers and other material users.

AZoM.com is the only materials specific website that combines a free access materials encyclopaedia with multi-axis search capabilities, materials
property data and a supplier/expert network.

AZoM.com is the result of over two years development work and currently contains over 6000 pages of information, materials properties and data,
drawn largely from the major content partners involved in the project the Institute of Materials, the largest specialist pan-materials body in Europe,
CERAM Research Ltd and RAPRA Technology, European leaders in Ceramic and Polymeric technologies respectively.

Contact Details:

Dr. Ian Birkby
ianbirkby@azom.com

AZoM.com Pty. Ltd.
Level 67, MLC Centre, Martin Place, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2000
Tel:+61 2 9236 7235
Fax:+ 61 2 9973 4205

Dr. Neil Sanderson, CEO, CERAM Research Ltd, board director AZoM.com
neil.sanderson@ceram.co.uk

CERAM Research Ltd.
Queens Road, Penkhull, Stoke on Trent, Staffs, ST4 7LQ, UK
Tel: +44 1782 764444
Fax: +44 1782 412331

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