Cambridge, March 2005

GRANTA MI: ASM Scoops Announcement of Granta’s Big News

The veil is lifted on groundbreaking solution for enterprise-wide materials information management

ASM, the world’s largest professional society for materials engineering, has revealed to the world a glimpse of GRANTA MI – a groundbreaking new materials information management system from Cambridge-based software company, Granta Design. Also unveiled was a new corporate style for Granta, showing a strong GRANTA MI logo sporting the underline ‘Material Intelligence’. ASM published the full-page announcement in the March 2005 edition of their magazine AM&P, a full month before the product is due for launch.

The bold announcement reads “GRANTA MI: Enterprise-wide materials information management. GRANTA MI is the complete software solution for the creation, tracking, qualification, and management of materials information – an integrated system of robust data tools to work throughout your organization, from test lab to designer’s desktop.” Collaboration in the product’s development is credited to the Material Data Management Consortium, with members including: Alcan Aerospace, ASM International, Battelle Memorial Institute (liaison for MMPDS), Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Los Alamos National Laboratory (MST6), Los Alamos National Laboratory (ESA), NASA Glenn Research Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Rolls Royce Corporation, Secat Inc., Westmoreland Mechanical Testing, and Williams International.

To learn more, the world will have to wait until April, when Granta plans the official launch of GRANTA MI.

Contact: Dr Will Marsden, USA (800) 241 1546, World +44 1223 518895, will.marsden@grantadesign.com