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The EMIT Consortium Solution

Organizations become entitled to membership of the Consortium by purchasing a qualifying package of software from Granta. Participation in the Consortium project helps to ensure that this solution develops to meet their future needs.

What problems does the Consortium solve?

Consortium members apply Granta software and services to support design for low carbon footprint and energy efficiency, and to enable product design and stewardship in the context of environmental regulations.

The current Granta solution is described in the Industry section of this website >>>

What products and services provide this solution?

EMIT Consortium members use the following current products and services:

GRANTA MI for comprehensive, integrated materials information management
GRANTA MI:EMO for enterprise deployment of rational materials selection
Materials reference data to enable informed decision-making
CES Eco Selector for expert materials and process selection
Granta services to research data and implement and configure solutions

Consortium development program

The EMIT Consortium is building on the firm foundation provided by Granta's existing solution. The project is enhancing and creating software and data for engineers, designers, procurement staff, managers, and executives in areas including:

Assessing and optimizing the carbon footprint and energy efficiency of engineering products
Quantifying energy use, hazardous gases, waste water, and solid wastes from manufacturing, maintenance, and disposal processes – and making decisions to reduce these emissions
Managing use of restricted substances, and ensuring legislative compliance, while accounting for variability and change in regulations, products, components, processes, suppliers, and manufacturing locations

Eco Audit example - a hair drier

Output from a prototype Eco Audit Tool - an example of the capabilities that the Consortium will develop. This software calculates the energy and carbon footprint of a product (in this case, a hair dryer) at different stages in its life cycle. The user can identify the life phase or phases that contribute most to the product's environmental impact, and thus focus on the best strategies for reducing this impact.

Software tools developed to achieve these goals will include:

Environmental lifecycle tools: e.g., for Eco Audit (pictured above), EuP compliance, and End-of-Life policy
Restricted substances management tools, e.g., to enable response to REACH

The Consortium will also drive the eco-specific capabilities of software tools for:

Materials selection, substitution, and optimization
Materials data management and process traceability
Integrating with product life cycle tools and data, such as “where used” and Bill of Materials information

Viewing data from an Enviromental Materials Database

Viewing an Environmental Design database within GRANTA MI's web browser user interface

Comprehensive datasets will be developed for:

The environmental performance of materials and manufacturing processes
Restricted substances

Software will be based on the GRANTA MI materials information system, developed since 2002 by Granta with the MDMC and, more recently, the Materials Strategy Consortium. GRANTA MI allows organizations to consolidate all materials data in a single system, and to integrate a range of tools to inspect, analyze, and apply this data (as illustrated above). New eco data will be based on model datasets developed by Granta with Cambridge University, linked to relevant industry-standard datasets.

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