Ansys Granta MI Enterprise

Leading Materials Data Management

Ansys offers enterprise-wide materials data management software to store, control and analyze, creating your materials' “gold-source.” Granta MI Enterprise is built on the foundation of Granta’s trusted materials reference data.

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"Gold-Source" Materials Data

Industry-leading Material Intelligence for your Enterprise

With 25 years of materials expertise, Granta MI Enterprise brings customers a complete materials data management solution. Empower your enterprise, protect your Material Intelligence and enable digital transformation.

Our unique MI Gateway and Enterprise Connect make way for seamless integration with CAD, CAE and PLM software. From Additive Manufacturing to Composites, we offer cutting-edge material processing.

CAD, CAE and PLM Integration
Access 250,000+ Materials
‘Gold Source’ for Materials Data
Assess Restricted Substances Risk
Supports Additive Manufacturing
Sustainability Add-On

Quick Specs

Granta MI Enterprise’s ability to securely manage total Material Intelligence for your company offers tangible cost and time savings, all while enhancing your experience with:

CAD, CAE and PLM integration

Secure Access and Version Control

User-friendly Data Input and Editing

Additive Manufacturing Template

BoM Analyzer

Predefined data schemas

Advanced Materials Searching

Accurate Materials Models from Test Data

Charting and Comparison Tool

Materials Datasheet Viewer

Detailed plotting & Comparison

250,000+ Materials Reference Database

Import from Granta Selector

Assess Restricted Substance Risk

Manage Materials and Process Workflows

Rolls-Royce Implements “Gold Source” of Material Intelligence

Managing complex and valuable materials data with Granta MI Enterprise improves accuracy and reduces redesign

BUSINESS BENEFITS

“Certified savings from the project were over $10M per annum.” Amandeep Singh Mhay, Specialist – Materials Data, Rolls-Royce

Utilizing MI Enterprise, Rolls-Royce provides their civil, defense and nuclear businesses with a “Gold Source” for Material Intelligence. The integration inspired a goal toward zero data loss across the enterprise. The MI Enterprise system has reduced the need for duplicate mechanical testing while offering accurate and traceable data, and minimizing redesign. Ongoing work at Rolls-Royce includes extending the program into composite data management, reducing Restricted Substance risk and improving overall environmental impact.

July 2024

What's New

Ansys Granta MI 2024 R2 brings new capabilities for sustainability, enhancing multiphysics simulation and boosting productivity and performance.

Sustainable Design with Material Insights

Following its release in the previous version, the Sustainability add-on for Granta MI brings significant improvements in functionality for the BoM Analyzer helping to improve productivity and gather insights more easily.

Enhancing Multiphysics simulation

Various improvements have been made in MI Materials Gateway and the Material Calibration tool for Ansys Mechanical, helping users improve the quality of their multiphysics simulations.

Boosting Productivity and Performance

With enhanced performance and optimized resource usage to keep your system running smoothly, as well as new failure prevention, observability, and monitoring frameworks, Granta MI offers users a superior user experience to boost productivity and performance.

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The Business Case for Material Intelligence

In this white paper, we explore why this is, with materials information management increasingly established as a core engineering technology. Includes extensive case study and return on investment information.

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Material Intelligence for CAD, PLM and Industry 4.0

Read this white paper to learn how materials management can save you time and money in your design and manufacturing processes.

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Halving the Number of Prototype Materials and Tests Using Ansys Granta MI During Model-based Development

Granta MI provided the database foundation for Honda Motors to explore the use of material informatics to predict prototype material properties.

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Implementing Granta MI to drive multi-million-dollar savings through enterprise-wide materials information management at Rolls-Royce

Having fast, reliable access to all relevant materials information is important for Rolls-Royce engineers who need accurate and statistically valid property data as they seek to push materials to their limits in a highly regulated, safety-conscious environment.

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CAPABILITIES

Introduce a complete materials data management solution with Granta MI Enterprise

Granta MI Enterprise, the leading system for materials data management, brings a complete material intelligence management solution, allowing you to empower your enterprise, protect your materials and enable digital transformation. Create, control and store valuable materials with our flagship materials properties software. Save time, drive innovation, cut costs and eliminate risk.

Workflow tools ensure the smooth capture, processing and approval of data, information and expertise, and enable users to fully integrate their materials expertise into their business practice. Bring Material Intelligence enterprise-wide with full integration across CAD, CAE and PLM systems.

Key Features

Manage your company materials knowledge and support business-critical systems with industry-leading Granta MI Enterprise:

Additive manufacturing
Test data management
Minimize restricted substances risk
Integrate seamlessly with CAD, CAE and PLM systems
Boosting simulation accuracy
Comprehensive materials data
Sustainability Add-On
Machine Learning

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Additive Manufacturing

Optimize your additive manufacturing data and project knowledge. Utilize insights to get your additive solutions to market faster, and improve your understanding of critical process and property relationships. Integrating easy-to-use Machine Learning applications into Granta MI to reduce trial and error in additive manufacturing.

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Ansys Granta MI for Additive Manufacturing

How can users achieve the full potential of Additive Manufacturing (AM)? With the Ansys® Granta MI™ AM solution, engineers capture and analyze the right information from their AM projects so solutions get to market faster.

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Test Data Management

Utilize efficient, traceable materials testing and analysis process – from test lab to design data – to maximize your return on investment.

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Ansys Granta MI for Test Data Management

Organizations can ensure that they get maximum return from their materials testing and qualification programs - for alloys, plastics, composites, and other materials.

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Minimize Restricted Substances Risk

We combine best practices to help minimize restricted substances risk through practical analytics, reporting and decision-making tools.

Offering an unrivalled, regularly updated library of references data to keep your teams up to date with evolving regulations.

Users of the Ansys Granta MI™ Restricted Substances module can access Chemwatch’s 70+ million Safety Data Sheets (SDS). This integrated solution provides access to product composition information that is essential for compliance with global regulations and chemicals risk management in manufacturing enterprises.

Benefits of Chemwatch for Granta MI include:

Easy access to 70+ million SDS on the Chemwatch system.
Pre-extracted, quality assured data, aggregated across multiple jurisdictions.
Automated import and regular updates of ingredients data, ensuring quality and saving time.
Integration with Granta MI for seamless product material management.
Simplified reporting to regulators, .e.g. REACh.
Regulatory compliance across a wide range of global regulations.

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Integrate Seamlessly with CAD, CAE and PLM Systems

Granta MI Enterprise is fully embedded with leading systems – CAD, CAE and PLM – to ensure accurate application of materials data and properties.

Boosting simulation accuracy

Improve simulation accuracy with access to an unrivalled catalog of materials property data.

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Ansys Granta MI™ for Simulation

Ansys® Granta MI™ enables users to save time and cost in simulation (CAE) with fast access to the materials data that analysts need, from directly within leading CAE software.

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Comprehensive Materials Data

Our extensive array of interlinked materials data includes our comprehensive and comparable MaterialUniverse™ dataset with technical, economic and environmental information for thousands of engineering materials. Additional detailed information is available on metals, polymers, composites, coatings, electromagnetic materials, medical materials, aerospace materials - including design data, manufacturer's datasheets, standards-based information and test data.

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Ansys Granta Materials Data

Ansys Granta collaborates with leading data providers to maintain an unrivalled, diverse catalog of materials reference data, combined with flexible materials selection and data management software.

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Sustainability Add-On

Designing for Sustainability with Material Intelligence

The sustainability add-on for Ansys Granta MI offers a rich toolset and the data to support sustainability experts, materials experts, and designers in their engineering efforts to reduce product environmental footprint early in the design phase. This allows a business to embed sustainability in its product development process by identifying and deploying preferred, sustainable materials as part of its central authoritative source of truth for the material. Designers have the insight to develop more sustainable products in their native tools (CAD/CAE), simultaneously optimizing performance, sustainability, and cost.

Machine Learning

Use data-driven machine learning with Granta MI to use your materials data to predict property outcomes and determine needed process parameters.

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How Machine Learning Helps Getting Additive Manufactured Parts to Market Faster

Use this across different use cases from additive manufacturing, developing a new alloy, or optimizing formulation and manufacture of battery electrodes. See our whitepaper on using it for additive manufacturing:

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White Papers

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Material Intelligence for CAD, PLM and Industry 4.0

Materials information is important. Your company needs to invest in managing this information. And it needs to integrate that managed information with enterprise CAD and PLM systems.

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Best Practices for Addressing the Restricted Substances Challenge and Ensuring Compliance

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Materials for the Electrification of the Powertrain

The challenge for those looking to electrify powertrains in automotive and aerospace applications is essential to solve at both strategic and technical levels.

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Materials for Sustainability

From executives aiming to reach corporate sustainability objectives to engineers making practical materials choices, enterprises face sustainability challenges at every level. Learn how to achieve your net zero goals with Material Intelligence.

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