Information Management for Restricted Substances

The core GRANTA MI system is provided by:

• The GRANTA MI:Server database technology
• The MI:Viewer web browser platform
• MI:Toolbox for higher-intensity import, export, and processing tasks.

Why is this technology particularly useful for assessing and managing restricted substance risk?

1. You can capture and maintain all corporate materials and process information—including restricted substance information

With MI:Server, you can create a single, central, secure, and maintained source for all of your company's materials and process information—whether that information is your proprietary in-house data, supplier data, or reference data. This includes information on restricted substances, since these substances either are materials, are components of materials, or are introduced during processing or production of materials.

NEW in GRANTA MI Version 5: you can now also store materials and process specification documentation.

GRANTA MI enables flexible import of your data—whether in proprietary file formats, text files, or Excel format. For more on Granta's generic data import capabilities see GRANTA MI:Toolbox. Template tables make it easy to add in-house substances, in-house regulations, and bought-in components to the GRANTA MI database.

Linking substances, materials, and legislation:The Restricted Substances data module provides the data tables shown in blue. In-house data (shown in red) can be added using GRANTA MI.

2. You can create and maintain links between related information

With GRANTA MI it is easy to create, manage, and use links between related information. The system can automate the creation of such links. For example, if a restricted substance is referenced in a material record or material spec document, then a link could be generated from the that record to the substance record.

The figure above illustrates the use of this feature. The substance and legislation data in the Restricted Substance Data Module (shown in blue) is stored in GRANTA MI and can be augmented with your proprietary substance, regulation, and materials data (in red). Linking all of this data makes it easy to query and report on the data, and to answer vital questions, such as: does this material or process involve substances that are impacted by current legislation? Which of the materials that we use are impacted by this legislation?

Building a complete restricted substance solution

MI:Restricted Substances builds on these foundations, providing tools to enable the INPUT of specialist data relating to restricted substances, REPORTING of restricted substance risk, and SELECTION and SUBSTITUTION in the context of restricted substance regulations.

MI:Materials Gateway ensures that this solution is fully integrated with your existing PLM, CAD, and ERP systems.