CES Selector—support critical material and process choices. Optimize cost, performance, and environmental impact.
CES Selector™ is a powerful PC software application that offers extensive materials property data, advanced graphical analysis, and specialist tools to support materials selection and substitution decisions.
Support early stage design, eco-design, and redesign of products—identify optimal materials and structures prior to detailed modeling, leading to a reduction in design iterations.
Enable material comparison, replacement, and substitution—reveal differences in performance and highlight risks associated with changing materials, enabling rapid yet well-informed decisions.
Develop & position materials & structures—visualize property space to guide development plans and communicate the benefits of your materials.
Access authoritative materials data—browse, plot, and compare engineering, cost, and eco data for metals, plastics, composites, ceramics and related processes.
CES Selector editions and tools
The Basic Edition provides core CES Selector features and data. Specialist editions add targeted data modules:
| Edition | Application |
| CES Selector (Basic Edition) | Materials selection, substitution, and cost analyses |
| CES Polymer Selector | Plastics and thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) |
| CES Metal Selector *NEW* | Global equivalencies of metals |
| CES Medical Selector | Medical device design |
| CES Aero Selector | Aerospace, defense, motorsports, energy |
| Add-on data modules | Add-on data for metals, including steels, aero alloys, and powder metallurgy |
Add-on tools provide additional software features, available with any edition:
| Tool | Application |
| Eco Audit™ Tool | Support for early-stage eco design and re-design |
| Hybrid Synthesizer™ | Predict properties of sandwich panels, hybrid materials |
| CES Constructor™ | Add and edit data |
CES Selector and other Granta products
CES Selector is part of Granta's wider portfolio of software for managing and using materials information, which also includes GRANTA MI™, an enterprise system for managing all of your materials data and providing secure, controlled, browser-based access to this data. GRANTA MI also provides browser-based deployment of materials selection technology that helps designers and engineers to make day-to-day selection decisions. More »