1

GRANTA MI: New in Version 5

www.grantadesign.com

GRANTA MI: New in Version 5

Oct 4th 2011

Ben Meyer – Granta Applications Engineer

New in Version 5

Materials Data Management and Core Features

Integrated Databases

Database Administrator

gRRappler

Upgraded User Interface

Materials Decision Support

MI:Substitute

MI:Optimize ready-configured database

Integration

New API

MI:Materials Gateway for Pro/ENGINEER and Abaqus/CAE

Eco Assessment and Restricted Substances

MI R t i t d S b t E h tMI:Restricted Substances Enhancements

Eco Assessment tool for EMIT Consortium members

New Data

Composites: Firehole Composites and more NCAMP data

Metals: improved coverage of automotive steels, MMPDS-05, ASME BPVC 2010

Plastics: Updated versions of CAMPUS and IDES

Eco: Updated sustainability and cost data

2

Integrated Databases 1

The user can

• see tables from more than one database in the Viewer tree

• search multiple databases

• create static links between databases

This is controlled using profiles created in MI:Admin (more on these later)

Integrated Databases 2

Homepages

Each individual database keeps its homepage

A separate homepage can be created for each profile.

Text Search

A text search will find records with matches across all the databases viewable within the selected profile.

The search results can be filtered by any table within any database that contains search results.

Static Links

Th b t d f t bl i d t b t t bl i thThese can be created from a table in one database to a table in another database

3

Profiles

A single view across your GRANTA MI databases. Profiles can be configured so that users get a view that is relevant to them.

When upgrading to version 5, some profiles will be set up automatically. These include:These include:

A profile for each individual database (unless the database contains existing profiles)A profile for admin and grant users which shows all databases If the database has existing profiles, e.g. RSDB, these are maintained

Some things to note:• If you don’t want your users to see a specific combination of databases on your

server, you will need to set up some custom profiles.• A user is not automatically directed to a profile This can be implemented usingA user is not automatically directed to a profile. This can be implemented using

an application homepage with links (e.g. Designers click here, Analysts click here).

• A user can select any profile set up by the administrators, as long as the profile contains at least one table that the user has access rights to.

Integrated Databases

Demo

4

Uncluttered toolbar showing key applications

New User Interface 1

Cleaner, easier to read datasheets

New User Interface 2

5

Improved search results display,

New User Interface 3

p p y,including contextual information

More flexible user roles

Database Administrator: Allows the global administrators to define users with admin rights limited to specific databases only.

6

gRRappler

MI now incorporates the gRRappler tool (originally developed at Rolls-Royce)

Template enhancements—Excel import/export templates can now be created automatically based on the database schema.y

Data manipulation tools—for easy data import, export, and round-tripping between MI and Excel.

gRRappler

Demo

7

Data Synch

Allows organizations to host multiple instances of MI and keep the data synchronised between these instances.

This capability has been developed and released, but is not a mature technology and requires some manual steps to set up. If customers require this functionality within this release, please speak to your account manager about providing consultancy to help you to set this up.

MI:Substitute

Starting with a given reference material, find candidate substitutematerials – and understand the implications of switching to them.

8

Example: Steel equivalence

What? Find the closest grade to a given steel in a different country / standards bodyy

Why? • Need to manufacture globally

• Need to translate a legacy design into a locally sourceableset of materials

Challenges • No two steel standards are identical

• Need to get as close a match as possible to save time and money in evaluating equivalent grades

Steel equivalence workflow

2. Identify which standards body you want your equivalent to come from:

1. Find current grade by name or composition

3. What properties do we want to match?

4. Compare candidates and identify potential differences or missing data

9

Company material substitution workflow

1. Materials experts identify and approve substitutes

5. Designers receive clear guidance on datasheets

3. Approved substitutes are li k d t i i l t i l

2. Original material is flagged e.g. ‘Do Not Use’

linked to original material

3. Any conditions, e.g. on suitability for particular applications, are assigned to the link

6. Information can also be made available directly in CAD/PLM through plugin / API technology

For more information: MI:Substitution Webex, November 16th

MI:Materials Gateway and APIUpdated versions of the GRANTA MI:Materials Gateway

Pro/ENGINEER

Abaqus/CAE

• Improved user interface and performance.

• Pro/ENGINEER: GRANTA MI:Restricted Substances reporting capabilities.

New Application Programming Interface (API) available

• Enables you to integrate in-house systems and data with your GRANTA MI installation.

• Includes an easier-to-use Software Development Kit (SDK), with documentation, revised sample code, and sample Visual Studio projects.

10

Eco design in the design process

Conceptualdesign

Detailed design ManufactureDesign

brief Product

Material and process selection

Eco performance

Legislation

Life Cycle Assessment

Technical performance

Cost

Eco design

GRANTA MI:Restricted Substances

•A User Interface & new capabilities for managing M&P specifications

• Importers for gathering supplier declarations

• Hardcoded searches for materials at risk of phase-outHardcoded searches for materials at risk of phase out

• Tools to import Materials and Process specifications and understand their legislative impact

•Fall back links: employ generic ‘where used’ data where supplier data is missing or unavailable

•Excel-based tool for specifying BoM’s by selecting materials and processes directly from the GRANTA MI database

Restricted Substances reporting capability from within MI:Materials Gateway•Restricted Substances reporting capability from within MI:Materials Gateway for ProE

Eco assessment tool for EMIT Consortium Members

•MI:Eco Audit provides enterprise-wide access to rapid and simple environmental assessment tool for early stages of design

11

Restricted Substances User Interface

Basic searches in the database, and importer templates to import company data to s pplement that

Links to the BoM generator tool to perform BoM analysis, and information on the custom reports provided by Granta for REACH reportingdata to supplement that

provided by Granta

Find materials/specifications at risk of:• ‘undocumented reformulation’• high risk of phase out• impacted by a particular regulation

REACH reporting

Eco design

Fallback Link

12

Eco design

Eco design

Excel add-in allows the user to t bill f t i l l ticreate a bill of materials, selecting

materials and processes from your MI database

This BoM can then be used to generate restricted substance reports, such as a REACH article 33 report or…

13

Eco Assessment Tool

You can run an Eco Audit report to identify which phase of theidentify which phase of the product lifecycle is contributing most to the overall impacts

Composites

• Firehole Composites:

Over 300 continuous fiber reinforced polymer composite grades

Manufacturers data, leading test labs and

New Data

Plastics

• CAMPUS & IDES

Updated to latest versions

Sustainability and CostManufacturers data, leading test labs and research projects

• Composites Design Database:

Updated with 135 new records from 9 materials from the ongoing NCAMP project

Metals

• MaterialUniverse:

Improved coverage of automotive steels

Improved coverage of cast steels and aluminums

• MaterialUniverse:

Updated sustainability and cost data

More extensive range of high quality sources

Supports material selection, substitution and eco assessment

• MMPDS

Updated to MMPDS-05 version, with 50 new records

• ASME BPVC

Updated to 2010 version with 270 new records