The Materials Center Leoben Forschung GmbH (MCL) and the Austrian Society for Metallurgy and Materials (ASMET) have jointly organized the "First International Conference on Materials, Processing and Product Engineering - MPPE" held in the Congress Center of Leoben from Nov. 3rd to 5 th, 2015.

The main topic of the conference was to present the state of the art in fundamental knowledge and technological expertise enabling and stimulating the development of knowledge based innovations across the entire product value chain starting from the material synthesis, proceeding with the processing of products and concluding with their in-service behaviour until the end of the product life time.

Hence, the International Conference on Materials, Processing and Product Engineering MPPE 2015 focused on the core regions of industrial production chains, covering topics such as

• Development and characterization of materials;

• Materials synthesis and processing;

• Dimensioning of components including integrated materials and process modelling;

• Behaviour of materials and components during service.

The scientific and technological goal was to present the state of the art of theoretical, experimental and numerical techniques and their combinations that are capable of improving the competitiveness of modern production facilities.