GRANTA MI 3.0 Released for Materials Information Management
 CAMBRIDGE,
UK, Jul 20, 2009 - Granta Design has announced a new release of GRANTA MI,
the leading system for materials information management in engineering
enterprises. GRANTA MI 3.0 provides powerful new tools and analysis features
to help users apply materials data - for example, in responding to
restricted substance regulations, in materials engineering, or in optimizing
product cost and performance. These advances are developed in collaboration
with three consortia, each with a membership of world-leading engineering
organizations. The resulting software is available to any interested
enterprise.
Viewing information on a substance covered by the
REACH regulation within GRANTA MI
The new GRANTA MI: Restricted Substances product helps companies to
design in the context of restricted substance regulations such as the
European Union’s REACH, and to avoid risks, such as materials obsolescence,
due to these regulations. The product is the first to be based on guidance
from the new Environmental Materials Information Technology (EMIT)
Consortium, which has members including EADS Astrium, Eurocopter, NASA, and
Rolls-Royce. Users receive data, updated quarterly, on 4,400 restricted
substances and 52 different pieces of legislation from around the world.
Software tools allow organizations to combine this data with information on
their own in-house substances, regulations, and bought-in components, and to
report on the restricted substance status of their materials, processes,
products, and designs.
GRANTA MI 3.0 also delivers a series of improvements and enhancements to
existing tools guided by the Material Data Management Consortium (MDMC). The
eighteen MDMC members now include Boeing, Honeywell, GE – Aviation, GE –
Energy, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon. Their interest is
the maintenance, analysis, and use of materials test and design data that is
critical in aerospace, defense, and energy. New capabilities include
enhanced features for storing and applying the complex mathematical models
used to describe materials properties such as fatigue or creep.
Viewing materials property data for an aerospace alloy
in GRANTA MI 3.0
A third major enhancement is the updated GRANTA MI: Enterprise Materials
Optimizer (MI:EMO), a unique tool to aid materials and manufacturing
choices. MI:EMO ensures consistency across the enterprise while helping
designers and engineers to go beyond simple considerations of base material
price or engineering function as they evaluate material and process
alternatives. The latest version adds advanced cost models, an easy-to-use
user interface to help designers to apply the method, and new visualization
tools for studying trade-offs. MI:EMO is developed with the Materials
Strategy Consortium, a collaboration with members including Emerson Electric
and Fortune Brands.
“With GRANTA MI 3.0 we have again delivered against a series of
milestones defined by our industrial partners,” comments Dr David Cebon,
Managing Director at Granta. “In so doing we can be sure that all Granta
customers are benefiting from new and updated tools of industrial relevance.
A particular landmark is the delivery of our first solution for the
business-critical problems posed by environmental regulations.”
About GRANTA MI
GRANTA MI provides a unique database system designed specifically to
store materials property data and a series of powerful software tools to
capture, control, analyze, and apply that data. GRANTA MI enables the
creation of a single corporate materials information resource, importing
data from in-house testing and design, other proprietary sources, and
trusted references. Materials experts use GRANTA MI tools to process and
manage this data, publishing it in a secure and controlled manner.
Engineers, designers, managers, and others then use GRANTA MI tools to
access and apply corporate materials information within their routine
workflows, assured that it is relevant, traceable, and the best available.
About Granta
Granta Design Limited is the materials information technology expert.
Granta develops the leading software for materials information management in
engineering enterprises, and the leading teaching resource for materials
engineering education. Granta serves sectors as diverse as aerospace,
defense, energy, medical devices, automotive, motor sports, manufacture of
consumer and industrial equipment, materials production, and publishing.
Customers realize multi-million dollar benefits in reduced cost, enhanced
performance, improved quality, and speedier design. Granta was founded in
1994 as a spinout from the University of Cambridge and the work of
Professors Mike Ashby and David Cebon.
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