GRANTA SOLUTION

Engineering Design, Analysis,

and Simulation

Ensure the validity and quality of critical materials property data used in your

product design and analysis

Deploy corporate materials knowledge and reference data throughout your

CAD and FEA/CAE communities, in a controlled and secure manner

Enable designers and analysts to get materials property data directly within

their engineering application, without interrupting their workfl ow

Embed product analytics and materials selection into your preferred CAD,

CAE, or other PLM system

Why is materials support for CAD, CAE, and PLM important?

For most engineering designers or analysts, Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer

Aided Engineering (CAE), or other Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software are

essential tools. Substantial investments of money and time are made in implementing

and using these systems. Often, this software relies on materials data—for example,

density or price for CAD analyses, or models describing mechanical properties for use

in simulation. It can be diffi cult to fi nd the right data: it is rarely available from a single,

convenient source. So CAD and CAE users often waste time looking for data or, worse

still, use data that may be incorrect, inconsistent, or out-of-date.

Similarly, materials engineering teams invest effort and resources in generating

accurate, approved materials data. But they often lack an effective, effi cient means to

deploy this data to the design teams that need it.

And there is another reason for wishing to integrate materials data with design. Doing

so can enable valuable decision support tools—for example, to identify which design

route would minimize environmental impact or to select materials to optimize cost.

Industrial & Consumer

Equipment

Automotive & Transportation

Electronics

Industrial relevance

A system to ensure a

single, controlled, easy-

to-access source of in-

house materials data

An unrivalled catalog of

materials reference data

Tools to access all of

this data and apply it

in analysis within your

familiar CAD, FEA, or

CAE software

Solution features

Granta enables organizations to manage their corporate materials data and to

access it from within standard engineering software. The picture shows materials

data, managed by GRANTA MI, accessed from within the Abaqus/CAE system.

Aerospace

Nuclear & Energy

Medical Devices

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Granta’s solution

A single source for your materials data

GRANTA MI™ enables engineering enterprises to capture all of their proprietary materials

data in a single, controlled, secure materials information resource. Integrated tools allow

materials experts to analyze this data and publish approved information for use in design.

You can also access Granta’s comprehensive library of materials property and process

data, including: aerospace alloy and composite data (e.g., MMPDS alloys, CMH-17

composites); metals data (ASME BPV code, StahlDat steels); plastics data (CAMPUS);

medical materials databases; and Granta’s own MaterialUniverse, which offers technical,

environmental, and economic data in support of materials selection and substitution.

Export to CAD, CAE, and PLM

The data in your corporate GRANTA MI database can be accessed through an intuitive

web-browser interface and exported in the right formats for software like Abaqus®,

ANSYS®, CATIA®, Creo Elements/Pro®, Nastran®, Patran®, and Pro/ENGINEER®.

Full integration with CAD, CAE, and PLM

Now it’s even easier to access materials reference data and approved corporate materials

information. GRANTA MI:Materials Gateway lets you browse, search, and use data in a

GRANTA MI database directly within CAD, CAE, PLM or other software. MI:Materials

Gateway is available for software including Abaqus/CAE®, Pro/ENGINEER®, NX™,

ANSYS® Workbench™, and Autodesk® Inventor®. The result is effi cient, error-free

integration of materials data into the workfl ow of designers and analysts.

Enabling product analysis and materials selection

As well as providing vital data to support the existing analysis capabilities of CAD, CAE,

and PLM, MI:Materials Gateway enables a new generation of materials-related software

applications within these systems. For example, Eco Materials Adviser is a tool embedded

within the Autodesk Inventor software that combines Granta materials data with data

from an Inventor model to provide a quick estimate of the eco impact of a design.

More information: www.grantadesign.com/design/.

Accessing GRANTA MI materials data from within the Pro/ENGINEER software.

Granta works with leading

providers of engineering

software to ensure

integration of materials

information with engineering

design and analysis:

ANSYS

Autodesk

Dassault Systèmes /

SIMULIA

Parametric Technology

Corporation (PTC)

Siemens PLM Software

Granta partners