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What Was New in GRANTA MI 1.2?
Introducing GRANTA MI 1.2
Granta is committed to maintaining GRANTA MI as the leading enterprise
system for materials information management.
Regular update releases deliver new features and performance improvements,
guided by input from our customers, while keeping pace with changing
systems requirements. This regular maintenance means that your materials
information system stays up-to-date, with no need to invest in-house
IT resources to upgrade it.
Here you can find information about some prior releases:
- GRANTA MI 1.2, described below, was released in 2006
- GRANTA MI 1.1. is described here...
What's new by application area
Read below, or click, to see what's new for:
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New features
Readers more familiar with GRANTA MI may prefer to read the detail
of new features:
- Data-to-data links
- Embedded media
- GRANTA MI:EMO (Enterprise Materials Optimizer)
- Improved language
support
- Better handling of images
- Improved search and selection
- New Import/Export capabilities
- Updates and enhancements to related data modules
Read the new features summary... |
What's new by application area
Aerospace and other high performance engineering
 GRANTA MI 1.2 updates key references, provides comprehensive materials
data management for aerospace, and helps ABAQUS and ANSYS users. Improvements
include:
- Easy access to the new MMPDS-02, alongside the latest ESDU MMDH. These
are the authoritative sources for property information on aerospace
alloys.
- Instant tracing
of data. Users can now link
any item of property data directly to information about its pedigree – for
example, the document from which it was sourced, or the test results
from which it was derived.
- Materials experts can store, search
for, and view all of their data in one system, regardless of format.
For example, photomicrographs, which contain very important information
about alloys or composites, no longer need to be kept in a separate
system for pictorial data. GRANTA MI now handles any document type including
images, PDF and Microsoft Office documents, movies, and audio.
- Interfaces
that help users of engineering simulation tools from ANSYS and ABAQUS
to find and import the materials data that they need.
Read the full press release on GRANTA
MI 1.2 for high performance engineering.
Relevant new features:
- Data-to-data links
- Embedded media
- Data updates and enhancements
- Improved language support
- Better handling of images
- Improved search and selection
- New Import/Export capabilities
Read the summary of GRANTA MI 1.2 new features...
 Materials science labs
Materials experts dealing with composites, alloys, ceramics,
or plastics can now use GRANTA MI to
store, search for, and view images, PDF and Word documents, spreadsheets,
movies, and audio along with numbers and text. Every item of materials
data, from property values, through spreadsheets containing rolled-up test
data, to photomicrographs of materials microstructures can now be captured
and held in one place. This data is integrated with specialized analysis
tools that study tensile, compression, creep, fatigue, fracture toughness,
and other properties.
GRANTA MI 1.2 also offers new features that help to capture and explore
the context of materials data. Any data can now be linked directly to any
other data or document in the system. This allows users, for example, to
connect a property value to the document from which it was sourced or to
the test results and analysis from which it was derived.
Materials science laboratories can use GRANTA MI to eliminate the risk of
lost data, to prevent unnecessary duplication of tests, and to ensure that
material properties used in design are fully traceable. GRANTA MI helps them
to better serve their stakeholders, customers, and collaborators by raising
productivity, increasing reliability, and improving the quality of reports and
analyses.
Read the full press release on GRANTA
MI 1.2 for materials scientists.
Relevant new features:
- Data-to-data links
- Embedded media
- Better handling of images
- Improved search and selection
- New Import/Export capabilities
Read the summary of GRANTA MI 1.2 new features...
Rationalizing materials usage
Companies aiming to save money by establishing a preferred materials
list, or by rationalizing the number of different materials specified
by their designers, can now get help from GRANTA MI:EMO, the new Enterprise
Materials Optimizer. This software builds on Granta’s
expertise in materials selection to enable selection by functional
requirements to be combined with an overall objective such as minimizing
cost.
Among the range of applications for this powerful approach, perhaps the
most interesting are those that address economic, as well as technical,
issues. Manufacturing
companies can now answer questions such as “are
we using the most cost-effective materials?” or “can we achieve
a 5% reduction in the number of grades we specify, while being confident
we will not lose product performance?”. Materials producers
can ask “are our customers using the best
materials to maximize their, and our, profitability?” or “our
customer is using one of our competitors’ materials: can we
offer any performance benefit by substituting one of our grades, and
still come in cheaper?”
EMO helps to answer questions such
as these – and does so in a systematic way well-suited to providing
structured justification data for inclusion in reports.
Relevant new features:
MMPDS users
For users of the authoritative reference for alloy 'design allowable' properties
in aerospace engineering, MMPDS, GRANTA MI 1.2 is a major step forward.
Now you can access the latest version of the data, MMPDS-02, integrated with GRANTA MI.
New data-linking and embedded media features will mean that MMPDS data
values in the GRANTA MI database can be connected directly to PDF
documents containing the original handbook pages. You will be able to
search the data quickly and easily, and then immediately connect to the
relevant handbook pages to assess the context for this data.
Granta provides a cost-effective,
straightforward, and powerful means to deploy MMPDS to all of your
materials experts and engineers.
For more on the MMPDS data, see the MMPDS
information in the data products section.
Relevant new features:
- Data-to-data links
- Embedded media
- Data updates and enhancements
Read the summary of GRANTA MI 1.2 new features...
Plastics: Environmental stress cracking
GRANTA MI 1.2 makes it easier for users of plastics to analyze materials
usage, saving time and cost, to identify and avoid issues related to
environmental stress cracking (ESC), to optimize polymer selection, and
to manage, use, and share information about their materials.
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ESC, cracking due to the combined action of stress and fluid environment,
is a critical issue when designing with plastics, and a major source
of in-service product failure. It has always been hard to design against
ESC due to the lack, or complexity, of data covering the performance
of different materials in different chemical environments and under different
stress conditions. GRANTA MI 1.2 provides simple guidance on ESC performance
of plastics and integrates it with analysis tools that make it easy to
study and compare materials and to flag up ESC problems during design.
The release also offers enhanced data on the permeability and biodegradability
of plastics – information that will be useful in areas including eco-design,
packaging, and medical devices.
Read the full press release on GRANTA
MI 1.2 for plastics.
Relevant new features:
- GRANTA MI:EMO (Enterprise Materials Optimizer)
- Data updates and enhancements
Read the summary of GRANTA MI 1.2 new features.
Publishers of scientific or engineering
information
 GRANTA MI 1.2 provides some exciting new possibilities for publishers of
information relating to materials, whether they are commercial
publishers, scientific societies or associations, or even the teams responsible
for curating and sharing information within an enterprise.
GRANTA MI helps you to present information in a clear, structured, and
searchable manner. New linking capabilities in version 1.2 make it easy
to establish connections between items of data stored in GRANTA MI. This
provides much richer possibilities for presenting and studying information.
New features allowing any media to be embedded within the GRANTA MI database
mean that materials data can be combined with images,
movies, PDF documents, HTML pages, or any other document type.
GRANTA MI enables powerful on-line information resources in materials science
and engineering, making them easy to create, maintain, and use.
Relevant new features:
- Data-to-data links
- Embedded media
- Improved language support
- Better handling of images
- Improved search and selection
Read the summary of GRANTA MI 1.2 new features...
German-speaking users
The GRANTA MI user interface is now available in German.
Visit Granta's German-language web
pages.
Relevant new features:
- Improved language support
Read the summary of GRANTA MI 1.2 new features...
East Asian language-based users
GRANTA MI now handles East Asian characters, allowing you to store and
search textual data in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.
Relevant new features:
- Improved language support
Read the summary of GRANTA MI 1.2 new features...
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GRANTA MI 1.2 provides some exciting new possibilities for publishers of
information relating to materials, whether they are commercial
publishers, scientific societies or associations, or even the teams responsible
for curating and sharing information within an enterprise.