Customers
include:
Eaton Corp
Fiat
LL Products
Michelin
Perkins Engines
TRW Automotive
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The Materials Strategy Software Consortium is a collaborative project that defines and applies new software to manage materials data and meet the challenges of material selection, substitution and cost optimization. More »
Automotive and Transportation
Highlights
- Apply materials information to optimize materials strategy—for example, supporting cost control or quality initiatives
- Help to ensure regulatory compliance—for example, with EuP, RoHS, and REACH legislation
- Integrate materials information management with your PLM process, saving your designers time in getting the materials data that they need
- Control and manage testing and quality assurance data to increase efficiency and protect corporate knowledge
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For vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers, making effective and safe use of materials is a business-critical issue. If you work in this industry, you will know that the right materials and process choices can help to maximize performance and minimize cost. You may be involved in managing or analyzing materials test data (or approved reference data) in order to ensure that materials deliver the required properties. You might be thinking about how to deal with proliferating environmental regulations—another area where materials and process information is relevant. If you work in design, you will want to know how to get the right materials data into your CAD or CAE software so that you can rely on the models that you develop in these systems. Granta can help.
Products and services
GRANTA MI for materials strategyIn an automotive or similar enterprise you typically use hundreds of different materials, supporting hundreds of different applications. Your organization is probably split across different businesses or sites. Regulation and global manufacturing pose further challenges. GRANTA MI provides tools, developed with the Materials Strategy Software Consortium, that help you to consolidate and control your materials information and to apply it to make better, more consistent materials decisions enterprise-wide. Results are lower costs, reduced risk, and fewer eco or manufacturing problems. GRANTA MI Materials Strategy package » Eco design and eco regulationsOptimizing vehicles for lower environmental impact is becoming a key competitive issue in the automobile and similar industries. And every engineering organization must now design with environmental regulations such as REACH in mind. 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. Granta develops and applies software and data solutions to aid design around environmental constraints. Eco Audit Tool for eco design » GRANTA MI:Restricted Substances package » CES Selector for materials selectionCES Selector is PC-based software that aids critical decisions on materials, processes, and eco design. You can use it to support rational selection, performing in-depth analyses to identify optimal materials and process choices. CES Selector provides specialist design tools, including for lightweight hybrid materials. And you can easily plot and compare the properties of metals, plastics, and composites.
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MI:Materials Gateway access to materials data from within the Pro/ENGINEER system Support for engineering design and analysisYou need accurate, up-to-date materials property information as input to your CAD, CAE, FEA or other engineering software. Granta helps you to manage and control this vital information and to provide access from directly within these third-party applications including Abaqus/CAE, Pro/ENGINEER, and Autodesk Inventor. Other productsGranta data products provide engineering, eco, and price data for plastics, metals, composites, and ceramics. Granta services help you make the most of your materials information Don't see a solution for you? We can address almost any problem relating to materials information. Contact us! |
