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View a list of GRANTA MI customers and reports >>> The following small selection from customer reports illustrates GRANTA MI's use for materials data management. Case study - Rolls-Royce In 2005, Rolls-Royce made the decision to implement GRANTA MI for enterprise-wide management of its materials data. A three-phase implementation program was defined. The system is now fully functional at Rolls-Royce Aerospace, Indianapolis (phase 1). All process gates have been passed at Rolls-Royce in Derby, UK, and the system will be operational for all UK sites in 2009 (phase 2). The third phase is planned to extend deployment to the Marine, Energy, Nuclear, and Fuel Cells divisions. Dr Malcolm Thomas of Rolls-Royce gave a detailed presentation of the project at a Granta seminar in January 2008. READ A FULL REPORT >>>

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Case study - ASCO Industries

ASCO Industries is a leader in high-precision, safety-critical products including high lift wing components, landing gear parts and sub-assemblies, and engine mounts. With revenues around 180m€ ($280m) in 2006, ASCO provides a case study at the opposite end of the aerospace spectrum from Rolls-Royce in terms of organizational size. ASCO has implemented the GRANTA MI system to manage data on metals, polymers, and composites, and to store data on standard parts for aerospace components.

Mr Stein Janssens of ASCO described this implementation at a Granta seminar in Paris in April 2008.

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More customer comments

Granta’s software provides " …a central engineering information database that not only contains typical material property information but also entire response histories (e.g., tensile, creep, relaxation, cyclic curves), all associated pedigree information, as well as related applications, failures and reference documents."

"The time required for data reduction and analysis has been reduced from hours or days to minutes depending upon the type of experiment being processed."

Steven Arnold, Life Prediction Branch, NASA Glenn Research Center

GRANTA MI was chosen as the best material data management system to serve the design, construction, and maintenance of the US naval fleet under the management of the Survivability, Structures, and Materials Directorate of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD), the Naval Sea Systems Command, and Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC). "The software system GRANTA MI was determined to be the most appropriate given factors such as functionality, cost, and release timeline."

Matthew Hayden, US Naval Surface Warfare Center

"Maintaining the database has been relatively effortless using the test modules within the software to enter data."

Ray Simpkins, Williams International

"An extremely powerful tool that is very simple to operate. A computer science background is not required to construct the forms used to create and structure an in-depth database... It amazes me that I have the power to create and manage such an intimidating database."

Brad Matanin, Aluminum Consultants Group Inc.