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Rolls-Royce

In 2005, Rolls-Royce made the decision to implement GRANTA MI for enterprise-wide management of its materials data. A three-phase implementation program was defined. The system is now fully functional at Rolls-Royce Aerospace, Indianapolis (phase 1). All process gates have been passed at Rolls-Royce in Derby, UK, and the system will be operational for all UK sites in 2009 (phase 2). The third phase is planned to extend deployment to the Marine, Energy, Nuclear, and Fuel Cells divisions.

Dr Malcolm Thomas of Rolls-Royce gave a detailed presentation of the project at a Granta seminar in January 2008.

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"Such an enormous efficiency gain is more important to our site and our industry in these times of reduced resources than it has ever been. Well done!"

Jeff Sickmeier, Rolls Royce Corporation

ASCO Industries

ASCO Industries is a leader in high-precision, safety-critical products including high lift wing components, landing gear parts and sub-assemblies, and engine mounts. With revenues around 180m€ ($280m) in 2006, ASCO provides a case study at the opposite end of the aerospace spectrum from Rolls-Royce in terms of organizational size. ASCO has implemented the GRANTA MI system to manage data on metals, polymers, and composites, and to store data on standard parts for aerospace components.

Mr Stein Janssens of ASCO described this implementation at a Granta seminar in Paris in April 2008.

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NASA

NASA Glenn Research Center has used GRANTA MI to create a central engineering information database that not only contains typical material property information but also entire response histories (e.g., tensile, creep, relaxation, cyclic curves), all associated pedigree information, as well as related applications, failures and reference documents.

Dr Steven Arnold, Chief of the Mechanics and Life Prediction Branch, and chair of the Material Data Management Consortium, described this system and its application at a seminar in Pittsburgh, PA, in October 2008.

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Fortune Brands Home & Hardware (Moen)

Moen Incorporated, part of Fortune Brands Home & Hardware, has embedded Granta’s software in its product design approach. New or redesigned products and components are examined to evaluate material and manufacturing alternatives. Granta software assisted a component redesign that cut production costs in half and doubled performance on an important product line.

Dr Tim O'Brien, Vice President for Technical Innovation at Fortune Brands Home & Hardware described the use of Granta software at a seminar in Milwaukee, WI, in May 2008.

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Westinghouse Electric Company

Westinghouse Electric Company provides a compelling example of the importance of materials information management in the nuclear industry, where preserving materials knowledge and leveraging expensive materials tests are important problems. Westinghouse is adopting GRANTA MI to approach these problems.

Paula Freyer of Westinghouse Electric outlined this project at a seminar in Pittsburgh, PA, in October 2008.

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Materials strategy case study - saving $50m

The white paper Optimizing Materials Strategy - can you afford not to? contains a case study based on Granta's experience of working with large, multi-business manufacturing organizations. Financial and other details have been altered to protect commercial confidentiality, but the case study remains representative of real projects and is published with the consent of the organizations concerned. The case study illustrates how use of Granta materials strategy software can be part of a cost reduction and materials rationalization program that aims to cut 5-10% from materials costs, in organizations where a 1% saving equates to $50m per annum.

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Renault F1

"Granta’s software is an integral part of our design process. Working with Granta’s consultants, we’ve created a consolidated source of materials information available company-wide, streamlining our design operation."

Graham Heard, Renault Formula 1

Williams International

"The number of users accessing our internal database has increased significantly.  We have stress analysis, design, and materials engineers accessing the software."

"Maintaining the database has been relatively effortless using the test modules within the software to enter data."

Ray Simpkins, Williams International

BAM, Germany

Granta’s software provides " …versatile and valuable instruments for the creation, maintenance and publication of our knowledge base."

Dr Stefan Seeger, German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung - BAM).

US Navy

GRANTA MI was chosen as the best material data management system to serve the design, construction, and maintenance of the US naval fleet under the management of the Survivability, Structures, and Materials Directorate of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD), the Naval Sea Systems Command, and Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC). "The software system GRANTA MI was determined to be the most appropriate given factors such as functionality, cost, and release timeline."

Matthew Hayden, US Naval Surface Warfare Center

Aluminum Consultants Group

"An extremely powerful tool that is very simple to operate. A computer science background is not required to construct the forms used to create and structure an in-depth database... It amazes me that I have the power to create and manage such an intimidating database."

Brad Matanin, Aluminum Consultants Group Inc.

Dow

"We use the graphical capability of Granta’s system and the Performance Index methodology to prove, in a quantifiable fashion, the benefits of polymers over traditional material choices."

Ludo Aerts, Dow Benelux N.V