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| July 2006 Granta Material News Welcome to Granta Material News, our quarterly update for users of materials information in industry. In this edition:
White paper studies return on investmentWhy is materials information critical to engineering enterprises? What is driving the emerging interest in materials information technology? How much money can this technology save or make for my organization? What are the essential issues to consider in its implementation? These questions are answered by a new white paper, The Materials Information Challenge in Engineering Enterprises, that draws on Granta's experience of working with the MDMC, a consortium of a dozen top engineering organizations including NASA, Rolls-Royce, Honeywell, and Alcan. The paper identifies the key challenges faced by such enterprises in their management and use of materials information, and estimates the return on investment from materials information technology. This return can be substantial, potentially exceeding $10 for every $1 invested. For your copy of the white paper visit: www.grantadesign.com/more/. New aerospace, defense, and energy solutionsThe new version of GRANTA MI offers novel solutions to key problems for high-performance engineering organizations such as aerospace, defense, and energy enterprises. Such organizations need the right materials property data and place a high value on the ability to trace data back through the design process to its source. GRANTA MI 1.2 updates access to the MMPDS materials reference data (see next item) and also provides new data-linking features that let you connect any item of test or reference data in the database to any other related data or documents. GRANTA MI also offers more flexibility in managing all of your materials information, since the system now handles any document format. You can store pictures, PDF files, Word documents, even movies, along with numbers and plain text. The result is that you can now connect data to complete pedigree information — for example, linking property data directly to the document from which it was sourced or to the test results from which it was derived. More... Have a Granta expert contact you to discuss your needs . Major step forward for MMPDS usageGRANTA MI 1.2 represents a major step forward for materials experts and engineers who want to use MMPDS (formerly MIL-HDBK-5), the authoritative source of property data for aerospace alloys. The MMPDS data module available with GRANTA MI allows you to search, browse, and use this information. The latest version of the data, MMPDS-02, is now available within this module. New GRANTA MI features also make it possible to link property information derived from MMPDS directly to PDF copies of the relevant pages in the MMPDS source documents, allowing users to inspect the full context for data. GRANTA MI offers a powerful means to access and use MMPDS data, while also providing an extremely cost-effective method to deploy this data easily to users across your enterprise. More... Have a Granta expert contact you to discuss your needs . Materials science labs: never lose a test result!Would you like to capture and keep all of your key materials data in one place? Would you like to have that data fully indexed, searchable, and easy to analyze? Until now, materials database solutions have only offered this power and flexibility for numerical and plain text data. You've had to store other information, such as photomicrographs or PDF copies of materials datasheets, in separate systems or in unwieldy hard copy. GRANTA MI 1.2 removes this inconvenience. Now you can store and link data in any format, allowing you to integrate structured property data with unstructured text, images, supporting documentation, and spreadsheets. More... Have a Granta expert contact you to discuss your needs . Avoiding environmental stress cracking failuresEnvironmental stress cracking (ESC), cracking due to the combined action of stress and fluid environment, is a critical issue when designing with plastics, and a major source of in-service product failure. A recent study showed that 25% of plastic part failures are related to ESC. It has always been hard to design against ESC due to the lack, and complexity, of data covering the performance of different materials in different chemical environments, and under different stress conditions. GRANTA MI 1.2 provides simple guidance on ESC performance of plastics and integrates it with analysis tools that make it easy to study and compare materials and to flag up ESC problems during design. The release also offers enhanced data on the permeability and biodegradability of plastics – information that will be useful in areas including eco-design, packaging, and medical devices. More... Have a Granta expert contact you to discuss your needs . Granta auf deutsch!GRANTA MI ist jetzt für deutschsprachiger Benunzter leichter zu bedienen, aufgrund der neuen Deutschen Benuzterschnittstelle, welche in GRANTA MI 1.2 verfügbar ist. Benutzer in Deutschland können auch Granta über die neue Deutsche Telefonnummer einfacher erreichen: 0800 182 5026. Mehr finden Sie auf unserer Deutschspragige Seiten... Granta en français!Pour les utilisateurs francophones, l'utilisation de GRANTA MI est plus facile grâce à son interface en Français. En France vous avez la possibilité de contacter Granta Design sur notre numéro vert au 0800 76 12 90. Pour en savoir plus, visitez notre site en français... MDMC workshopsIt's almost too late to register for one of the upcoming MDMC workshops — but not quite! Register today to hear leading engineering enterprises talk about their implementation and use of materials information technology.
The Material Data Management Consortium (MDMC) is a collaborative project of leading engineering organizations established to identify and solve many of the key practical challenges in enterprise-wide management of materials data. The workshops explain and discuss the critical importance of materials information management in product and process design, aiming to develop awareness and use of this valuable emerging software technology. More details and registration... NASA materials information team scoops awardThe MAPTIS II development team was recently awarded a 'One NASA' award for their work in providing NASA, NASA contractors, and NASA-associated organizations with a single-point source and access to materials information. The team of engineers from the materials and process laboratory at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, led by Michael Mitchell, applied Granta technology in creating a web-based application that revises and expands the original MAPTIS database. MAPTIS consisted primarily of space environmental data generated by NASA test organizations, along with documentation on materials certification for space applications. MAPTIS-II adds mechanical, physical, thermal, thermophysical, and thermal protection system materials properties. More details and links to related information... New for ANSYS and ABAQUS usersANSYS® Workbench™ users now can easily import and apply critical materials data from GRANTA MI. GRANTA MI 1.2 also includes a new interface to ABAQUS. Granta will continue to improve service to its customers by developing partnerships with other leading providers of technology and data for engineering organizations. Read the ANSYS announcement ... Recent and upcoming eventsGranta's Dr Will Marsden presented at the AeroMat 06 conference in Seattle in May. Details... Granta will be attending the MS&T and Aerospace Design conferences in, respectively, Cincinnati and Anaheim, during October and November. If you are attending these events and would like to meet us there, contact us... |
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