Industry—how we help

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	Data management
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	Engineering design

Engineering design, analysis, and simulation

Granta helps you to:

Ensure the validity and quality of critical materials property data used in your product design and analysis
Deploy corporate materials knowledge and reference data throughout your CAD and FEA/CAE communities, in a controlled and secure manner
Enable designers and analysts to get materials property data directly within their engineering application, without interrupting their workflow
Embed product analytics and materials selection tools into your preferred design software

Granta works with many of the world's leading engineering software companies, including: Autodesk, ANSYS, Dassault Systemes, PTC, Siemens PLM.

Support for CAD and CAE software

GRANTA MI is the leading system for materials information management in engineering enterprises, enabling companies to create a single, managed source for all of their corporate materials data and relevant materials reference data.

You can export materials data from this corporate materials database for use in applications including Abaqus, ANSYS, Autodesk Inventor, CATIA, Nastran, Patran, Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro, and SolidWorks. These GRANTA MI export capabilities can be extended easily to support your choice of engineering software.

A higher level of integration is also available using the MI:Materials Gateway technology. This allows materials data to be accessed and used interactively from a window within the host CAD or CAE software.

Export to CAD/CAE applications »

GRANTA MI:Materials Gateway »

Reference data

Granta provides an unrivalled catalog of materials property data that can be accessed and applied within your engineering software. GRANTA MI:Materials Gateway enables you to access and apply this data directly within your CAD or CAE system. Alternatively, you can browse and search the data via a web browser, then use the GRANTA MI exporter tools to transfer the data in the specific file format required by your simulation software. You will find data for:

Aerospace alloys—for example, the authoritative MMPDS and ESDU MMDH handbook data
Other metals—for example, the ASME BPV Code materials for the power and process industries
Plastics—CAMPUS Plastics provides data on over 5,000 plastics grades
Materials selection—Granta's MaterialUniverse gives comprehensive coverage of engineering materials, designed for selection and comparison

Data products »

MI:Materials Gateway products

The GRANTA MI:Materials Gateway technology enables full integration of the GRANTA MI system with third-party engineering software. You can browse and search data in your corporate GRANTA MI database from within CAD and CAE systems, and apply these data in product analytics and simulations. You can currently purchase MI:Materials Gateway products to support the systems listed below. Other integrations are in progress—ask for details.

MI:Materials Gateway for Abaqus/CAE »

MI:Materials Gateway for Pro/ENGINEER »

Eco Materials Adviser tool in Autodesk Inventor »

Now available for demonstration:

MI:Materials Gateway for NX »

GRANTA MI:Materials Gateway for NX enables users of the NX software from Siemens PLM to directly access and use materials property data from a GRANTA MI database, while working in their familiar CAD environment.