The creation of the critical promising materials that determine the efficiency of the next generation equipment is based on a combination of material designing means and a quality control information technology in industry. CALS (continuous acquisition and life cycle support) systems are integrated informa tion systems that follow the life cycle of a product and combine the designing and production of objects (CAD/CAM/CAE systems) with the systems of con trolling the manufacture, resources, marketing, sale, maintenance, and repair of products. In the produc tion of a wide spectrum of steel, alloy, and composite material grades and products made of them, CALS cannot operate without a quality control subsystem. There are random local industrial systems of control ling one technological unit. However, the production of materials is characterized by a strong technological heredity: deviations within allowable limits at various states and operations are complexly interrelated [1, 2]. There are no operating "upper level" metasystem (for through control of the entire production string), con trol algorithms adapted for certain technological classes, and proper quality control means and meth ods (in particular, structure quality control system). In particular, the mechanisms of fracture of various structures are incompletely understood, and this is necessary to choose their optimum configurations (with allowance for an inevitable technological heter ogeneity) to provide the required level of properties [1][2][3][4][5].The development of measurement and control means, an increase in the available computational power, CALS algorithms for through control in terms of a direct technology, and modern software packages (i.e., information technologies) provide the possibility of deeper understanding of the nature of strength, ductility, and impact toughness of various materials as the basis for the formation of effective means for con trolling the quality of metal products. If a certain prob lem can be solved using an information technology, this is much cheaper and faster than the traditional approach related to a replacement of equipment and processes.
INITIAL INFORMATION ON A TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSModern metallurgy is characterized by a long pro duction string, the number of operations in which is determined by the purpose of the product. These oper ations are usually characterized by an alloy composi tion; the heat, deoxidation, and casting indices; and the temperatures and reductions in stands or the tem perature-time parameters of forging and heat treat ment (when it is the final technological stage). The parameters measured at every technological operation can be controlled and make up K ≈ 100 parameters of process ξ k (in total, K dimensional vector of ξ param eters) [6]. As a rule, they are recorded in real time, fixed in technological certificates, or are stored in a general electron information archive at an enterprise.The product quality is characterized by ten or more output parameters y i with allowable levels d i (y...