The GRANTA MI:Restricted Substances Package

Assess business risk:

• Identify where restricted substances are (or may be) in your production parts, process materials, and surface treatments
• Assess risk of materials obsolescence during the production lifecycle

Design out risk by enabling designers to:

• Account for current and future global legislation when selecting materials and processes
• Substitute materials or coatings to replace obsolete materials or processes

Augment existing business systems to build a powerful enterprise-wide solution:

• Provide tools in designers' native environments, such as CAD and PLM
• Apply the GRANTA MI tools to existing corporate data (e.g., Bills of Materials)

What is the GRANTA MI:Restricted Substances package?

A package of GRANTA MI software modules and supporting data that creates an integrated solution to assess and manage risk due to restricted substance regulations. Track global legislation, link this information to materials, and inform selection and substitution decisions in design—all in order to deliver your long-term compliance strategy.

Restricted substance legislation has proliferated in markets worldwide in the last ten years and poses a major challenge for engineering enterprises. Increasing concerns include:

• undocumented change by your supply chain
• costly product redesign due to substance, material, or process obsolescence
• the potential costs of non compliance (even the possibility of product recall and associated brand damage).

Understanding your exposure to these risks and mitigating for them, preferably early in the product design stage, is becoming an essential component of ‘business as usual'. GRANTA MI not only helps you to assess the impact of current legislation on production and process materials and coatings in the markets you supply, it also provides tools that support compliance and risk management strategy for future products across your enterprise. Integration with existing business systems (e.g., CAD, PLM and ERP) embeds these capabilities into the workflows of designers and engineers.

Solution components

There are four key components: