Granta Updates Materials Data Management System
Granta Design has released the latest version of the Granta MI system for materials information management in application areas such as composites, restricted substances, steels and medical devices. Granta MI 4.0 focuses on the key practical challenges faced by scientists, engineers and designers in managing and using materials data. Meeting such challenges saves time, reduces risk, improves quality and enables response to regulations in product design and development.
Key themes are: helping to manage and respond to changing information; tracking and using complex interrelationships between data; and tools for specialist data such as the functional data often used to describe mechanical properties. For composites applications, designing a database to store composite test and design data is difficult, because these materials contain multiple components that are combined and processed in many ways. The aerospace, defence and energy enterprises in the Material Data Management Consortium (MDMC) have helped to define an effective and efficient database structure.
This is now available to any Granta MI user. A new Composite Design data module enables users to augment in-house data with data from the Ncamp, Agate and CMH-17 projects, providing further support for composite design. For restricted substances, Granta MI helps organisations to identify the likely effect of regulations on product designs. A new tool provides alerts on any change to a relevant substance, material or regulation, enabling proactive risk management. Another enhancement makes it easy for designers to navigate the relationships between substances, materials and regulations - for example, to see which substances in a material are affected by which regulations and the nature of the impact.
This supports materials choices that avoid costly problems with regulatory compliance or materials obsolescence. For steels, Granta MI now provides access to two sets of European reference data on steels, fully integrated with in-house data. The Stahldat SX data is a complete Register of European Steels (known as the Stahl-Eisen-Liste in German), associated specifications and temperature-dependant properties. Stahldat SX is licensed under a new agreement between Granta Design and the Steel Institute (Stahlinstitut VDEh) of Dusseldorf, Germany. The second dataset is from the MI-21 Metals Information for the 21st Century project, and includes two data collections: World Metal Index (WMI) Metals and The Welding Institute (TWI) Welding Consumables.
These provide chemical, mechanical and physical properties for thousands of metals, electrodes, fillers and fluxes. Granta MI makes it easy to query, browse and use this data. For medical devices, the first release of a new Human Biological Materials data module provides mechanical property data for human bone. This is ideal for modelling orthopaedic devices. Separate data on the materials and coatings used in cardiovascular and orthopaedic devices has also been updated. This data, combined with Granta MI tools to manage proprietary data and new documentation and services to assist in the validation of in-house systems, creates a comprehensive materials information solution for medical device organisations.
Key themes are: helping to manage and respond to changing information; tracking and using complex interrelationships between data; and tools for specialist data such as the functional data often used to describe mechanical properties. For composites applications, designing a database to store composite test and design data is difficult, because these materials contain multiple components that are combined and processed in many ways. The aerospace, defence and energy enterprises in the Material Data Management Consortium (MDMC) have helped to define an effective and efficient database structure.
This is now available to any Granta MI user. A new Composite Design data module enables users to augment in-house data with data from the Ncamp, Agate and CMH-17 projects, providing further support for composite design. For restricted substances, Granta MI helps organisations to identify the likely effect of regulations on product designs. A new tool provides alerts on any change to a relevant substance, material or regulation, enabling proactive risk management. Another enhancement makes it easy for designers to navigate the relationships between substances, materials and regulations - for example, to see which substances in a material are affected by which regulations and the nature of the impact.
This supports materials choices that avoid costly problems with regulatory compliance or materials obsolescence. For steels, Granta MI now provides access to two sets of European reference data on steels, fully integrated with in-house data. The Stahldat SX data is a complete Register of European Steels (known as the Stahl-Eisen-Liste in German), associated specifications and temperature-dependant properties. Stahldat SX is licensed under a new agreement between Granta Design and the Steel Institute (Stahlinstitut VDEh) of Dusseldorf, Germany. The second dataset is from the MI-21 Metals Information for the 21st Century project, and includes two data collections: World Metal Index (WMI) Metals and The Welding Institute (TWI) Welding Consumables.
These provide chemical, mechanical and physical properties for thousands of metals, electrodes, fillers and fluxes. Granta MI makes it easy to query, browse and use this data. For medical devices, the first release of a new Human Biological Materials data module provides mechanical property data for human bone. This is ideal for modelling orthopaedic devices. Separate data on the materials and coatings used in cardiovascular and orthopaedic devices has also been updated. This data, combined with Granta MI tools to manage proprietary data and new documentation and services to assist in the validation of in-house systems, creates a comprehensive materials information solution for medical device organisations.
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