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Granta Consortia

Granta participates in three collaborative projects, each founded with industrial partners and focused on developing and applying software for specific industries or application areas.

Consortium	Key industry sectors	Description
The Material Data Management Consortium (MDMC)	Aerospace, defense, and energy	Materials data is mission-critical in aerospace, defense, and energy. You need the right data, you need it up-to-date and accurate, you need it deployed to designers and engineers in a secure, controlled, but easily usable manner. And you need the data to be fully "traceable". The MDMC has developed a best practice approach to meet these challenges - and the software system to support it.
The Materials Strategy Consortium	Diversified component and equipment manufacturers	Do your products use many different materials and support many applications? Are your operations split across many businesses or sites? Do regulation or global manufacturing complicate these operations? The Materials Strategy Consortium creates software to consolidate and control all relevant materials data and information, and to use it to make better, more consistent materials decisions enterprise-wide. Results are lower costs, reduced risk, and fewer eco or manufacturing problems.
The Environmental Materials Information Technology (EMIT) Consortium	Any manufacturing organization	Are you concerned about environmental regulations (such as REACH) or corporate objectives to reduce energy or carbon footprint? Materials are central to these issues because their use is increasingly regulated and because their properties determine much of the environmental impact of products. The EMIT Consortium develops and applies materials information technology solutions specifically focused on designing around environmental constraints.

Benefits of consortia

As a consortium member, you receive:

Software that addresses key problems for your business
Participation in a collaborative project that guides development of the software and related reference data
A formal vote in the process to prioritize developments – ensuring that your specific needs are met at a fraction of the cost of developing in-house solutions
Networking with other members at regular project meetings and web conferences – helping you to identify and implement best practice
Privileged and early access to new software and data developed during the project
Dedicated training and support