Ansys Granta Selector revolutionizes material optimization by providing comprehensive tools to analyze, compare, and select the best materials for design and manufacturing, ensuring cost efficiency and environmental sustainability.The world is evolving at a quantum speed with transforming technology. The human life cycle has
enriched to tend towards advancement in every sector. Businesses have adopted the transformation
& obtained the benefits of technology involved in their mainframe process to become multi-billion
companies. Making the product a hero in every story, Engineering the product or designing a
physical product demands focus on four major factors; Design, Analysis, Manufacturing, and
Materials. Though the first three factors are digitally transformed, the materials field is still lagging.
This article exclusively focuses on optimizing your right material choices.
Referring to the case of an OEM, that manufactures an industry renowned product.
Due to the stringent industry standards and to stay ahead of the competition, the company decided
to optimize their existing product and its performance. Following the advancement, they relied on
simulation results for quick feedback from different design iterations. Furthermore, parametric
optimization yielded them even better results compared to the manual design iterations. Overall,
they were able to achieve a 9% Reduction in Weight and a 5 % Increase in Efficiency through Design
Optimization.
Much to the Team’s surprise, the product manager wasn’t satisfied with this result. Hence, he
assembled his team to initiate an experiment with different material types.
The broader idea of this activity was to understand how he could improve his product and cut down
cost to the company, thereby naming this activity as Material optimization.
This is where companies need a tool like, Granta Selector which does answer the above questions.
Granta Selector is a tool for optimizing your material choices, which not only has material properties
of metals, plastics, polymers, ceramics and various other classes of materials but also has features
like search, plot and compare your choice of materials as shown in the pic.
Apart from the features mentioned above, Granta selector has: