Moldflow forms partnership with Granta

At the International Moldflow User Group meeting a partnership was announced with Granta Design, supplier of a software tool for determining the optimum materials for a given application.

At the International Moldflow User Group meeting a partnership was announced with Granta Design, supplier of the CES Optimal Polymer Selector (OPS), which is a software tool for determining the optimum material candidates for a given application.

According to the agreement, portions of the Moldflow plastics material database, the largest of its kind in the world, will be licensed to Granta for distribution in their CES Optimal Polymer Selector (OPS) product.

The CES Optimal Polymer Selector combines generic and grade-specific information with powerful graphical selection methods that work on combinations of properties.

It has been developed for those in the plastics supply and processing sectors involved in selecting or specifying plastics for particular applications.

But the fact is that comprehensive polymer data can be extremely difficult to find.

Most polymer datasheets are far from complete, containing only a few of the required properties.

This makes searching for the necessary information time-consuming and frustrating.

When attempting to perform a selection using a software package, it is often the case that so many grades fail due to a lack of data that very few, if any, are actually left for consideration.

As a result of the agreement with Moldflow, Granta customers will now be able to filter materials based on the availability of Moldflow material data - a critical feature for those customers for whom a Moldflow analysis is requisite in their product development processes - as one of the selection criteria.

Conversely, users will now have the ability to quickly eliminate materials which have not been characterised for use in Moldflow analysis in the earliest stages of determining material candidates for a given application.

The information that Moldflow is supplying Granta consists of all the supplier details, materials trade names, polymer family type, and type and percentage of filler for all the materials in the Moldflow material database.

But should a Granta user want to get the actual data required to run an analysis, they would have to contact Moldflow.

Granta Design is a significant player in the specialised field of information systems for material and process selection, providing decision support software, reference databases and customisation services.

The company was founded in 1994 by Professor Michael Ashby, the leading innovator in materials selection methods, and Dr David Cebon, architect of all generations of Granta Design's products to develop and market their Cambridge Materials Selector (CMS) software.

CMS was superseded in 1999 by the Cambridge Engineering Selector (CES3) a powerful, customisable platform for materials and process selection.

Granta Design is a private company owned by its founders, employees, the University of Cambridge and ASM International, the world's largest professional society for materials engineering, which made a $1.6 million investment in Granta Design in May 2000.

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