Northrop Grumman and Dassault Systèmes on material intelligence for accelerated design and development

Can you be sure that product engineering systems (e.g., PLM, CAD, CAE) are using the right material definition to support product development? At recent webinars, speakers from Northrop Grumman and Dassault Systèmes addressed this challenge.

Across the product lifecycle, a ‘material’ means different things to different people – for example, a materials engineer, CAD designer, or someone in manufacturing. Companies can spend wasted cycles ensuring consistency and attempting to find or verify data. Risks and errors can creep into the product due to use of incorrect specifications or the wrong input data to simulation.

Yuri Kapustin from Northrop Grumman discussed the need for specialist systems to manage the full depth and breadth of materials data, coupled with flexible integration technologies that support a real-world product development environment with its many different engineering tools.

Anders Winkler from Dassault Systèmes introduced the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, which now integrates with the GRANTA MI™ system to provide materials data for design and simulation.

See us at a number of upcoming international PLM events. Contact us to pre-arrange a one-on-one meeting.

Automotive supplier creates centralized materials knowledge base

Four divisions of Continental have chosen GRANTA MI to create a single point of collection and access for materials data. The right engineering and design decisions improve product performance, minimize risk, and reduce time-to-market. For this, automotive enterprises need access to accurate, quality materials information.

GRANTA MI can create a centralized hub of approved, versioned data to support product engineering. Tools facilitate visualization and analysis of test data, manage product risk, and ensure robust data management workflows.

Following completion of a pilot phase, Continental will begin initial roll-out of GRANTA MI, providing access mid-term to more than 4,000 users within its automotive business.

Combined solution will reduce Additive Manufacturing (AM) trial-and-error

Engineers and scientists can now more effectively combine simulation and experimental approaches to optimizing AM thanks to a new partnership between ANSYS and Granta Design. Users of simulation for metal-powder-bed AM within ANSYS Workbench can now get input data from their company’s GRANTA MI materials database via the MI:Materials Gateway app.

Quick access to accurate, traceable input data saves time and increases confidence in simulation results. Experimental data can be used to calibrate and validate simulation, which in turn provides valuable insights to optimize AM processes. The companies are also working to connect the ANSYS Additive Print solution to GRANTA MI.

Learn more in our on-demand webinar, in which Granta teams up with guest speakers Brent Stucker and Zack Francis, from ANSYS, to explore how to reduce costly trial-and-error, and qualify AM parts faster.

Identify best practice, learn from industry experience of solving materials-related problems, and meet our expert team at upcoming Seminars and UGMs

The Granta events calendar contains three must-attend regional events for anyone with an interest in materials information and its applications including: additive manufacturing, materials engineering, the Digital Twin, product development, the supply chain, quality, purchasing, warranty, and meeting environmental and regulatory objectives.

Our free-to-attend open Seminars are an opportunity to uncover best practices in materials information management and decision-making. Users of GRANTA MI or CES Selector are invited to join our UGMs to share experience with other users and pick up implementation tips.

The 2018 Material Intelligence Seminar and D-A-CH Granta User Meeting
October 9-11, Germany
Key Presenters: Alfred Kärcher | Rheinmetall

The 2018 Material Intelligence Seminar and North European Granta User Meeting
October 16-17, UK
Key Presenters: AWE | Pratt & Whitney | Rolls-Royce

The 2018 Material Intelligence Seminar and French Granta User Meeting
November 8, France
Key Presenters: Airbus | MBDA

Catch up on our latest published articles

Composites by comparison
Can composites replace steel as the backbone of the oil and gas industry? Thibault Villette, material modeling team leader at Saudi Aramco, offers his thoughts.
Composites in Manufacturing (CiM), October 2018

Knowing the ins-and-outs
As a community, how can we better use materials information to help engineering enterprises make creative use of materials in their products? In this article, we explore new possibilities in medical device development.
Materials World, August 2018 (available for members-only)

Virtual Product Development Needs Accurate Materials Information
Generating and obtaining materials data for simulation is complex and time-consuming, but incorrect properties lead to incorrect simulations. So how can simulation analysts avoid costly errors? 
Digital Engineering, July 2018

Risk-free surfaces
How can organizations easily and accurately identify the restricted substances risks in their products that result from a surface treatment? 
Develop3D Magazine, June 2018

Meeting Environmental Objectives and Regulations – What Every Aerospace Manufacturer Should Know
Gone are the days when the impact of products on the environment or human health were optional business concerns. Regulatory constraints on materials and chemicals are increasing, and many companies struggle to respond – and to do so quickly and efficiently.
Aerospace & Defense Technology, June 2018

Enabling additive manufacturing for UK aerospace
"DRAMA (Digital Reconfigurable Additive Manufacturing facilities for Aerospace will reduce the time and cost in the planning of AM processes, provide a showcase for leading AM equipment and services, and grow the UK's AM knowledge base to increase right-first-time deployment of AM." 
TCT Magazine, June 2018