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Highlights

  • Apply the latest software solution to implement a systematic and repeatable approach in making better materials business decisions, enterprise-wide

  • Address issues such as rising and volatile materials costs, increasing environmental regulations, and global 'design anywhere, build anywhere' manufacturing

  • Participate in the Materials Strategy Forum, a collaborative project that offers further competitive advantage by developing software to meet your specific materials strategy needs
 

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Introduction

Every engineering or manufacturing enterprise needs a materials strategy to address issues such as:

  • Inflationary, volatile, and uncertain raw material prices
  • Adopting new or substituted materials or processes
  • Rationalizing materials or suppliers
  • Complying with environmental legislation
  • Decisions about manufacturing location
  • Procuring equivalent materials at multi-national locations
  • Design bottlenecks due to problems in finding materials data

Such issues also impact materials producers, who must position their materials as the optimal choice for their customers' needs.

Granta, the leader in materials information technology, has developed a new software-based approach that tackles these challenges. This solution helps you to define your materials strategy in a rational and systematic way, and to roll out this strategy so that it can be implemented by your entire enterprise – from design through to manufacturing. Further development is guided by industrial users, particularly members of the Materials Strategy Forum.

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