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Five Steps to Eco Design: Improving the Environmental Performance of Products through Design

'Five Steps to Eco Design' is a short booklet providing advice on how you can tackle environmental issues within product design in an integrated and cost-effective manner. We consider the business drivers for eco design, the main challenges found when implementing eco design, and then outline five simple and practical tips providing actions that you can take to deliver more environmentally sustainable products. whether you are a designer, engineer, materials engineer, or design manager.

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A Material Producer's Guide to Materials Information Technology

Five Practical Steps to Protect and Increase your Market Share

Granta's latest Guide draws on our experience working with leading engineering enterprises in this field to ask what's driving changes in the industry, and what this means about the importance of materials information technology. With five simple and practical tips, you see how to systematically manage, control, and use one of your most valuable assets—your materials information—to position your products against the competition, avoid expensive retesting, and work more closely with your key customers. Pre-register for this Guide to find out more about how you can maintain the competitive advantage, and protect and increase your market share.

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Meeting the Materials Data Management Needs of Engineering Enterprises

The paper takes a technical perspective of the materials data challenge, examining the practical requirements of those, such as materials engineers, who generate and supply materials data and those, such as stress analysts and design engineers, who are data 'consumers'. The paper analyzes four specific use-case examples: Materials support for engineering design Statistical process control Selecting and substituting materials Meeting regulatory requirements (e.g., REACH)

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Data Management for Composite Materials

Data relating to composites, particularly test and design data, are increasingly important in high performance engineering applications. But this data is difficult to manage and use. The technical paper Data Management for Composites discusses this challenge and how it can be met.

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The Business Case for Materials Information Management

This paper draws on Granta's experience of working with the MDMC, a consortium including enterprises such as NASA, Rolls-Royce, GE-Aviation, and Honeywell. We identify the key challenges faced by such organizations in managing and using materials information, and compute the return on investment from emerging materials information technology. This can be substantial, potentially exceeding $10 for every $1 invested.

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Optimizing Materials Strategy—Can you afford not to?

To succeed, manufacturing enterprises need to do much more than simply deliver products that excel at their required function. They must meet wider product design objectives that allow them to address strategic drivers such as cost, environmental legislation, and global manufacturing. Materials decisions are central to these objectives. Sustainable success requires strategies that ensure these decisions are optimized not just for individual designers, but also across the enterprise. This paper outlines an innovative approach that is being applied to address this challenge.

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Materials Information Management for Medical Device Design

Materials technology has a fundamental impact on the viability and performance of medical devices, so the availability and quality of knowledge characterizing relevant materials, the efficiency of access to this information, and the way in which it is used can have profound implications for medical device companies. In this paper we consider best practices for materials information. We identify key requirements, based on interviews with medical device professionals and extensive experience of working with engineering enterprises in this and other industries and describe the Granta Design solutions that meet these requirements.

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