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September 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:
Boeing joins Material Data Management ConsortiumThe tenth project meeting of the Material Data Management Consortium (MDMC) at the NASA Glenn Research Center in August welcomed as new members groups from Northrop Grumman (as reported in our previous eNews) and from Boeing’s Integrated Defense Systems business unit. The meeting reviewed new developments in the GRANTA MI™ software system. The MDMC helps to guide development of GRANTA MI. Members also discussed practical issues relating to the on-going enterprise roll out of GRANTA MI within several participating organizations. The Boeing and Northrop Grumman teams join representatives of organizations such as Rolls-Royce, Honeywell, GE – Aviation, NASA, and Los Alamos National Labs. Dr Steven Arnold of NASA Glenn Research Center, who chairs the Consortium Steering Committee, welcomed the new members: "The Consortium is becoming a 'Who's Who?' of the aerospace industry and thus provides sufficient diversity and experience to ensure that GRANTA MI meets both industry’s and government’s critical needs relating to materials information management." Materials strategy seminar, Detroit, September 20There's still time to register for our open seminar on the latest software-based approaches to materials strategy - enabling optimum materials decisions based on function and cost. The event will be relevant to anyone who uses or specifies materials in manufacturing, engineering, or materials producing enterprises. We will discuss issues such as:
The agenda (now available at the web address below) includes talks from users of materials strategy software at Emerson Electric and Fortune Brands, as well as presentations and demonstrations from Granta experts, and round-table discussions that will ensure we identify and address your key issues.
Two previous seminars have attracted managers from companies such as: Airbus, Alcoa, Boeing, Caterpillar, Daimler Chrysler, Federal-Mogul, GE-Aviation, General Motors, Goodrich, Halliburton, Lockheed-Martin, Kohler, Morgan Carbon, NASA, NIST, Pratt & Whitney, Rocketdyne, Raytheon, Siemens Power Generation, Ticona, TIMET, and Whirlpool. For the convenience of those who may wish to attend both events, we are running the seminar alongside the Materials Science & Technology (MS&T 07) conference at the same venue (see next item). Join us at MS&T - guess the material and win a watch!Granta will be at the Materials Science & Technology 2007 conference in Detroit from Sep 16-20. With so many recent developments at Granta, it's time to invite everyone to catch up on what's new! So, if you're attending MS&T, why not stop by our booth (booth 315 in the exhibition, which runs on Sep 18 and 19 only)? Your visit could be timely in more than one way. You get the chance to win a watch by entering our "guess the material" contest. All you have to do is apply your materials expertise (or educated guesswork) to the set of materials samples we will have at the booth. Every entrant will get one of our "Material intelligence, the game" materials property card games. As well as attending the exhibition and holding our open seminar on materials strategy software (see item above), Granta will be participating in the scientific program at MS&T. Granta speakers are Dr Will Marsden, on 'Best Practice For Materials Information Management' and Dr Arthur Fairfull, on 'Supporting Materials Strategy - Realizing the Value from a Materials Property Database.' Both are speaking in the symposium: 'Developments in Web-Based Materials Property Databases, Knowledge Management of Materials Information, and Materials Informatics for Accelerated Materials Discovery'. Medical devices white paper now availableA new white paper Materials Information in Medical Device Design, is now available for download. 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. The paper discusses these requirements and the potential benefits of meeting them (reduced costs, time-to-market, and risk). Download the medical devices white paper 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 MPMD conference, Palm Desert, CA (Sep 23-25)Granta will be attending the 2007 Materials and Processes for Medical Devices conference in Palm Desert, CA, USA, in partnership with ASM International. The event is from September 23-25. We will be presenting the Materials for Medical Devices database and Granta's solution for materials information management in medical device companies. Granta's Dr David Cebon will be presenting in the scientific program. Contact us ahead of the conference to arrange a meeting. Or find us via the ASM booth in the exposition. Celebrating 21 years of materials selectionA "coming of age" party in July marked twenty-one years of materials selection software at Cambridge University and Granta Design. In 1986, Professor Mike Ashby and Dr David Cebon first collaborated on developing software tools to systematically select materials for engineering applications. Their work, at the Cambridge University Engineering Department, led to the founding of Granta Design and the development of new technologies and products that are now used by 600 universities and by world-leading engineering organizations. A display, supported by hands-on demonstrations, charted the development of Granta's materials information technology from the "back of an envelope" in 1986 to today's advanced commercial tools! More on the 21 year celebration Granta hosts nanotechnology projectGranta and the University of Cambridge hosted the third project meeting of MANUDIRECT, a new collaborative project focused on innovative manufacturing processes, at Queens' College, Cambridge during June. MANUDURECT is a European Nanotechnologies Project funded by the European Union's Sixth Framework Program. The project aims to provide a new platform for manufacturing with resolution better than 200 micro-metres, based on high productivity, high resolution, direct, one step, laser sintering using metals and ceramic materials. Such technology would have a broad range of microengineering and biomedical applications. The MANUDIRECT Consortium includes academic and industrial partners from Italy, Germany, UK, Spain, Romania, Poland, Cyprus, and Belgium with commercial participants including Granta, Siemens, EADS Deutschland, and MTU. |
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