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Granta - Material Intelligence
 
 
Consortium overview

Materials Strategy Consortium logoThe Materials Strategy Consortium is a collaborative project that drives the development of software for systematic materials selection, substitution, and cost optimization. The Consortium solution helps to improve products while also meeting business objectives such as cost reduction, rationalization or diversification
of suppliers, and materials
equivalence in global
manufacturing.
The Consortium solution

Granta has unique expertise and technology for systematic materials selection. CES Selector is desktop PC software that supports this process for individual selection projects. GRANTA MI:EMO helps to improve materials decision-making enterprise-wide, ensuring consistency, and helping product design and development teams to work more effectively with functions such as procurement and supply chain management. The Consortium helps to drive development and use of this full range of technology.

Materials strategy publications

Download the white paper Optimizing Materials Strategy - can you afford not to have one? This explores how manufacturing enterprises can meet wider product design objectives related to strategic drivers such as cost, environmental
legislation, and global manufacturing. Materials
decisions are central to these objectives. Includes
case study material not available
elsewhere.

Materials strategy events

Upcoming events - Open Seminar (Oct 20) and Consortium Members' Meeting (Oct 21) in Houston, TX. These events take place alongside the MS&T Conference.