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The GRANTA MI System

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GRANTA MI combines a unique materials database system with powerful software to capture, control, analyze, and apply critical data in the engineering process.

Designed specifically for enterprise materials information management, GRANTA MI enables you to create a single corporate information resource that can combine and enrich data from in-house testing and design, other proprietary sources, and trusted references. Materials experts use GRANTA MI to manage, analyze, certify, and maintain this data, publishing it in a secure and controlled manner. Engineers and managers then use GRANTA MI to access and apply this information within their routine workflows, assured that it is relevant, traceable, and the best available. Options include statistical analysis of test data and tools to help you to make materials-related business decisions.

GRANTA MI is an integrated system, built around a central database. A browser-based interface offers security-controlled data access and a range of processing and analysis tools. Supporting Windows applications enable more intensive tasks.

Core GRANTA MI components

• GRANTA MI:Server - Provides the central materials database (which can be populated with in-house data, external reference information, or both) plus related system configuration capabilities.
  
  
• GRANTA MI:Viewer - Browser-based access to the information in the database and to specialist tools to analyze and apply that information.
  
  
• GRANTA MI:Admin - Windows application to configure and control the system.
  
  
• Workflow integration with third-party tools, such as computer-aided engineering, via plug-ins or the GRANTA MI:Application Programming Interface

Optional GRANTA MI components

• GRANTA MI:Toolbox - Windows application supporting higher-intensity import, export, analysis, and processing tasks.
  
  
• GRANTA MI:Lab Analysis - A range of supplementary modules to analyze materials test data.
  
  
• GRANTA MI:Enterprise Materials Optimizer (MI:EMO) - Materials decision support tool, available within the MI:Viewer browser interface, combining considerations of function and cost.

Complementary Products

• CES Selector - Stand-alone materials selection software for Windows.
  
  
• Reference data - Granta provides a comprehensive range of materials reference data modules. These can be accessed via GRANTA MI.