Partners

Industry partnerships

Granta works closely with every customer to ensure that our software solutions meet the needs of industry. In particular, three collaborative projects provide members with formal input to Granta development plans, as well as benefits of networking and early access to technology. These are:

Software partnerships

Granta works with leading providers of engineering software to enable a comprehensive solution to the materials information needs of engineering enterprises. We aim to integrate with and support business-critical systems at these organizations. Our partners include vendors of CAE, CAD, FEA, and PDM software, such as ANSYS, PTC, SIMULIA, and Siemens PLM Software.

Data partnerships

Granta works with a broad range of materials and process data providers to ensure that our customers can acccess comprehensive reference information for applications such as aerospace, energy, and medical devices, and materials including metals, composites, and plastics. Partners include ASM International, MMPDS (formerly MIL-HDBK-5) , ESDU, CAMPUS, IDES, and Moldflow.

Shareholder partners

Granta is particularly pleased to acknowledge the on-going support and collaboration of the University of Cambridge and ASM International, strategic partners who have also invested in Granta.

Other collaborations

Manudirect - Granta is a member of Manudirect, a European Nanotechnologies Project funded by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme. The project aims to provide industry with a new platform for manufacturing using a high productivity, high resolution, direct, one step laser sintering process. Granta helps to manage materials data relating to the project and to model the behavior of micro-managed materials. (Manudirect website).

MI-21 - Granta technology supports the MI-21 project, developing a powerful information resource on metallic materials for manufacturing industry. More details...

MatML - Initiated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), MatML (Materials Markup Language) is a standard for electronic exchange of materials property information. It is based on XML (eXtensible Markup Language) principles. Granta participates in the MatML Coordination Committee whichs steers the project. (MatML website).

NIMS - Granta has a memorandum of understanding with Japan's National Institute of Materials Science and collaborates to further the usefulness of materials information in electronic format. (NIMS website).

Life Cycle Engineering - based in Torino, Italy, LCE works in areas including Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), environmental engineering and management, environmental communication and reporting, environmental sustainability, green procurement (GPP) and carbon management/emission trading. Granta is working with LCE to advance the use of materials information in these areas. (LCE website).

Metatech GmbH - Granta collaborates with materials and technology consultants Metatech to share expertise and to more effectively support our German customers. (Metatech website).