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May 2007 Granta Material News Welcome to Granta Material News, our quarterly update for anyone who creates, uses, or manages materials information in industry. In this edition:
GRANTA MI 1.3: more business impact for materials infoGRANTA MI version 1.3 is a new version of the leading system for materials information management in engineering enterprises, optimized based on user feedback. New features address business-critical issues for aerospace, energy, medical devices, plastics, and other manufacturing industries. More details on each of these areas are provided in the relevant news items below. Key new features in GRANTA MI 1.3 include:
Complete information on GRANTA MI 1.3 CES Selector 2007: the best ever materials selection softwareCES Selector 2007 is the new version of the powerful graphical software for rational selection of engineering materials and manufacturing processes. It offers enhanced software features and new materials information in areas including: Cost optimization - updated pricing data and a new 'ranking' feature during materials selection makes 'cost per unit of function' analysis easier. You can quickly screen the 'universe' of available materials to find lower cost substitutes for an existing material. Medical device design - meet key design requirements in the use of medical plastics. Thermoplastic elastomers - navigate the "TPE jungle"! Eco-design - estimate the environmental impact of product components. Productivity & communication - improved usability and presentation of your results. Complete information on CES Selector 2007 Northrop Grumman joins MDMCNorthrop Grumman is the latest aerospace and defense organization to join the Material Data Management Consortium (MDMC). The collaborative project focuses on developing best practice in the management of materials data from test labs through to engineering design. Northrop Grumman joins organizations including NASA, Rolls-Royce, Honeywell, and GE - Aviation. Input from the MDMC helps to guide development of the GRANTA MI system. The Consortium's next meeting will be in Cleveland, Ohio, July 31 - Aug 2. Aerospace & energy: ASME, MMPDS, and more...GRANTA MI 1.3 offers new and updated aerospace and energy reference data. A new data module provides the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel code information on materials for conventional and nuclear power applications and chemical plants. You can also get the latest MMPDS-02 database of aerospace alloys with access to 'live numbers' for easy analysis and export of property data. GRANTA MI 1.3 provides many new data management features specified by the Material Data Management Consortium. An example is 'smart links', which help organizations to capture data pedigree accurately and to maintain that pedigree as information changes. Such 'traceability' is a critical issue for aerospace engineering. More on GRANTA MI 1.3 for aerospace and energy Aerospace and energy reference data series EADS Astrium Satellite highlight of European WorkshopsRepresentatives of over twenty engineering enterprises attended two recent Materials Information Workshops in Paris and Munich. The Munich event was held on March 29 at the Munich Messe, within the Aerospace Testing Expo 2007. The Paris meeting was on April 4, alongside the JEC Composites event. Attendees came from the materials production, aerospace, motorsports, and automotive industries. A case study of the need for materials information management in industry was provided by EADS Astrium Satellite, who presented on their requirements for controlling and using materials data, and the solution that they are implementing with Granta. A valuable exercise at both venues was a discussion session in which those present identified specific problems or challenges relating to materials information that were important to them or their organizations. Workshop report, including the list of key issues from attendees New materials strategy software - reduce and avoid costReduce or avoid costs. Meet environmental regulations. Implementing strategies that use materials information to meet such objectives is the prime focus of the Materials Strategy Forum, a new collaboration of manufacturers such as Emerson Electric and Moen. A key technology for the Forum is the Enterprise Materials Optimizer (GRANTA MI:EMO). First available in the previous version of GRANTA MI, MI:EMO has now been refined and enhanced to create a robust tool validated through use in initial customer environments. New features, focused on enhanced usability, make it compelling for any organization that needs to consider materials selection or substitution – and that wants broad access to the technology without the need for extensive user training. You also need the right data for effective materials strategy. Essential to 'cost per unit function' assessments, prices for over 3,000 materials in Granta's MaterialUniverse data module have now been updated using an improved price model. New or enhanced materials reference data is also available for stainless steels and nickels, high-performance engineering materials, eco-design, thermoplastic elastomers, and medical plastics. What's new for manufacturing in GRANTA MI 1.3 Materials Strategy seminarsThe Materials Strategy Forum met in Orlando in February to discuss emerging software methods that help optimize the specification and use of materials. This was the second meeting of the Forum, and it was accompanied by an open seminar attended by a wide range of organizations with an interest in the benefits of materials strategy solutions. Report, including attendee list, from the Orlando seminar The next such event will be held concurrently with the MS&T conference in September:
Medical devices - receive a white paper / get a demoNew materials information technology is now meeting the rigorous requirements of medical device design - both for the management of proprietary materials data, and for the provision of relevant reference data. These requirements, and the benefits of meeting them (reduced costs, time-to-market, and risk) will be discussed in a new white paper Materials Information in Medical Design, to be published shortly. Order your free copy of the medical devices white paper in advance Recent developments in this area include the release of the Materials for Medical Devices database - the result of a collaboration between ASM International and Granta. You can arrange an online demonstration of this tool - the first and only comprehensive database created specifically to support medical device design. Arrange a demonstration of the Materials for Medical Devices database A new data module covering medical plastics is also now available for use with the powerful graphical selection tools of CES Selector or for browser-based enterprise-wide access via GRANTA MI. GRANTA MI can also help you to manage prorietary data. Enhancements in version 1.3 are particularly useful for enterprises where traceability and the handling of complex data are important. Together, these advances create a powerful new solution for medical device design. Complete information on Granta's medical devices solution Plastics: enhanced design tools; TPE & medical plastics dataManufacturers and users of plastics now have enhanced plastics design and analysis tools. Improvements in GRANTA MI 1.3 help you to manage and make better use of proprietary and reference information on the properties and processing of plastics. And Granta has enriched the reference information that it supplies relating to plastics: a new resource covers thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs); new data is available on medical plastics; and the well-known CAMPUS and IDES databases have been updated. CES Selector applies this data to intenstive analysis of materials usage, for example, to optimize your usage of different grades of plastics. GRANTA MI:EMO helps your designers to make day-to-day selection decisions as you implement materials strategies. How the new Medical Plastics data can help you What's new for plastics in: GRANTA MI 1.3 | CES Selector 2007 Meet us at the Paris Air Show, June 18-21Granta will be attending the Paris Air Show to meet with our customers and partners in the aerospace industry. We will be participating in the Technology Forum. We would welcome meetings with other potential collaborators who may be attending the event. Please contact us. More information and contact form 8th International Conference on Eco-Materials, July 9-11Eco-Materials, materials that facilitate reduction of environmental impact, are increasingly important to business as a source of competitive differentiation, and as a potential response to increasing environmental regulation. The 8th International Conference on Eco-Materials (ICEM8) will be hosted by Brunel University, UK, in July. The selection of materials according to their eco-properties is an important focus area for Granta. We are pleased to support ICEM8 and Granta's Professor Mike Ashby will give a keynote lecture. DGM course - 'Systematische Werkstoffauswahl', July 4-5The DGM (German Materials Society) is running a two-day course on systematic materials selection in Karlsruhe on July 4-5. Granta is a supporting sponsor. |
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