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The Materials Strategy Consortium Solution

Organizations become entitled to membership of the Consortium by purchasing a qualifying package of materials strategy software from Granta. Participation in the Consortium project helps to ensure that this solution develops to meet their future needs.

What problem does the Consortium solve?

Consortium members apply Granta software and services to help them make more effective and consistent materials decisions, enterprise-wide.

The current Granta solution is described in the Industry section of this website >>>

What products and services are applied?

Materials Strategy Consortium members use the following products and services:

GRANTA MI to manage corporate materials information and to deploy information and decision support tools enterprise-wide
GRANTA MI:EMO, the Enterprise Materials Optimizer, to provide browser-based materials decision support software to designers and engineers
Materials reference data to enable informed decision-making
CES Selector for expert materials selection and analysis
Granta services to develop materials strategies and implement systems to support them

Consortium development program

Details of planned developments to these products are available to organizations that wish to consider membership of the Consortium. Membership provides you with formal input and voting rights in the product development process, ensuring that future versions of the software meet your specific needs. More on Consortium benefits...

Summary - Why Granta?

The promise of the Materials Strategy Consortium is built on firm foundations with Granta.

Past — Granta was founded in 1994 by Professor Mike Ashby of Cambridge University, a respected world authority on materials and process selection. Professor Ashby's approach, embodied in the Cambridge Engineering Selector software, is widely used in education and industry. Over time, customer demands encouraged Granta to address wider issues of materials information management, analysis, and deployment, resulting in the GRANTA MI system. (More history, in the About section of this site...).

Present — GRANTA MI is now established as the leading system for materials information management in engineering enterprises. At the heart of GRANTA MI is a powerful database, designed specifically to handle materials information. The database interacts with an extensive portfolio of tools to get, manage, deploy, and use this information. Included are simple, browser-based interfaces that make it easy for any user to access the data that they need. GRANTA MI is maintained and updated with regular releases. (Latest release, in the Products section of this site...)

Future — We are the materials information technology experts. Granta's team has a proven track record in working with customers, individually and via collaborative projects such as the MDMC, to develop solutions that meet their needs. We will apply this experience alongside the Materials Strategy Consortium, to continue development of a unique new materials strategy capability, bringing new insight, rigor, and profitability to our customers' specification and use of materials.

Why not join us?