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Aerospace and Defense

THE MATERIAL DATA MANAGEMENT CONSORTIUM
MDMC logo A unique collaboration of leading aerospace, defense, and energy organizations. More...

MDMC members include
Boeing
GE - Aviation
Honeywell Aerospace
Lockheed Martin
NASA
Raytheon
Rolls-Royce
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Other customers include
EADS Astrium
Eurocopter
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Case studies
Rolls-Royce
ASCO Industries
NASA Glenn Research Ctr
Eurocopter

Granta customers include the world's leading aero engine makers

Granta assists the manufacture of aircraft and components of all types

Granta helps space agencies and suppliers including NASA

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Highlights

GRANTA MI is developed in collaboration with top aerospace and defense enterprises
Improve quality and efficiency and reduce risk in your aerospace engineering process
Empower your materials scientists and engineers by dramatically improving the capture, analysis, and deployment of critical data
Combine internal test, QA, and design data with external references such as MMPDS and ESDU in a complete solution

Making the best use of materials such as alloys, composites, and ceramics, often under extreme conditions, is critical to aerospace and defense enterprises. The management and use of information relating to these materials can make or break projects or processes. Granta works with world-leading aerospace and defense organizations. We help you to manage and use materials data, while our aerospace data series provides the high quality reference information that you need.

Example solutions for aerospace & defense

Managing mission-critical data

Materials data is mission-critical in aerospace and defense. You need to capture and retain data from sources such as materials tests and quality assurance. You need to deploy up-to-date, accurate data to designers and engineers in a secure, controlled, but easily usable manner. And data must be fully ‘traceable’. The Materials Data Management Consortium, a group of top aerospace, defense, and energy enterprises, works with Granta to develop a best-practice approach to these challenges, embodied in the GRANTA MI™ software system. More...

Eco design and eco regulations

Every aerospace organization must now design with environmental regulations such as REACH in mind. Eco objectives are increasingly central to corporate goals. Materials are central to these issues, because regulation constrains what materials can be used, and because materials properties determine much of the environmental impact of products. The Environmental Materials Information Technology (EMIT) Consortium is developing and applying materials information technology solutions specifically focused on designing around environmental constraints for industries including aerospace. More...

Accessing specialist reference data

Reference data on materials properties is often required to support design or analysis in aerospace and defense. This information must be drawn from reliable, traceable sources. Often, these sources require regulatory approval. Granta provides easy, cost-effective, enterprise-wide access to key aerospace references such as MMPDS (formerly MIL-HDBK-5), CMH-17 (formerly MIL-HDBK-17), and ESDU MMDH. GRANTA MI even enables access to these data sources via your CAE, FEA or other third-party software. More...

Relevant products

GRANTA MI for materials information management

Aerospace and Energy Data Series providing specialist reference data

CES Selector for rational selection of materials and processes

Granta services help you make the most of your materials information