Materials Science & Technology Conference, 2007

Location: COBO Center, Detroit, MI, USA

Website: www.matscitech.org

Dates: 16-20 September, 2007

Granta once again joined the MS&T community in Detroit this September. We participated in the conference exhibition, presented in the scientific program, and ran another of our successful open seminars on novel approaches and software to optimize materials strategy.

Exhibition - time to catch up with Granta?

Guess the materials contest! With so many recent developments at Granta, it was definitely time to catch up with our customers and friends in the MS&T community! And a visit to our booth was timely for delegates in more than one way. They got the chance to win a watch by entering our "guess the material" contest!  All they had to do was apply their materials expertise (or educated guesswork) to the set of materials samples in our booth. Every entrant received one of our "GRANTA MI, the game" materials property card games. The winner receives a prize of a watch. The correct answers were: Teflon (or PTFE, or polytetrafluoroethylene) Titanium Galvanized steel Jet (or petrified wood) Zirconia foam Congratulations to our contest winner, Carlos Alonzo of Rohm & Haas.

Industrial visitors to the booth viewed the latest GRANTA MI and CES Selector software solutions and find out how Granta is now:

• Offering more materials reference data than ever (recent additions include MMPDS-02 aerospace data, the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel data, information on thermoplastic elastomers, and upgraded pricing and eco-data).
• Supporting enterprise roll-out of its mature materials data management solution at leading manufacturing organizations. Granta supports the Material Data Management Consortium - a group of leading aerospace, defense, and energy enterprises. Boeing and Northrop Grumman are the newest members.
• Helping enterprises to optimize their materials strategy (see seminar details below).

Academic visitors discussed the new version of our CES EduPack software for teaching materials and processes. New software features, books, and supporting lectures extend support for your teaching, particularly for first and second year materials courses.

Scientific program

Granta participated in the symposium: "Developments in Web-Based Materials Property Databases, Knowledge Management of Materials Information, and Materials Informatics for Accelerated Materials Discovery".

Granta speakers were:

Wed 19 Sep, 9:40am	Dr Will Marsden	Best Practice For Materials Information Management
Wed 19 Sep, 3.10pm	Dr Arthur Fairfull	Supporting Materials Strategy - Realizing the Value from a Materials Property Database

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After the close of the symposium on Sep 20, why not join Granta for lunch and our open seminar on materials strategy software?

Granta open seminar on materials strategy

The seminar was for any manager or materials expert who needs to develop strategies to deal with issues such as:

• Avoiding or reducing materials costs
  
  
• Responding to environmental regulations
  
  
• Specifying or substituting materials to meet the needs of global manufacturing

Thurs 20 Sep, Noon	Lunch	For all seminar attendees
Thurs 20 Sep, 1-4pm	Open Seminar	Presentations, demonstrations, and discussion on software and approaches to define and implement optimal materials strategies.

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