EWI Adopts Granta MI System to Enhance Additive Manufacturing Efficiencies

EWI, an engineering and technology provider of advanced manufacturing in North America, has selected Granta Design's GRANTA MI software to better coordinate its additive manufacturing (AM) work across multiple AM platforms. The software system is currently being deployed. GRANTA MI is made for enterprise materials information management.  

EWI’s engineering services aim to help companies identify, develop, and implement the best options for their specific applications. Defining a strategy to capture and characterize material information across different AM platforms is currently a challenge. Every AM machine monitors different metrics, and exports data differently. EWI is meeting this challenge by defining the most effective way to record the data, and then automating and controlling the input process through GRANTA MI, according to the companies. If further metrics are identified as essential to the qualification of a part, the flexibility of GRANTA MI and EWI’s importing strategy will allow the enterprise to go back and pull in that information with ease, the companies add.

“We know AM has the potential to be a great tool to meet today’s industry needs, but we also recognize that hesitation to adopt such technology may be due to lack of understanding of the entire process from start to finish,” says Brendan Lewis, EWI project engineer and team lead for GRANTA MI implementation. “GRANTA MI will to allow us to capture large amounts of data from all pieces of the AM puzzle and present it in a way that makes sense to the prospective industry adopters. This data capture will allow us to make valuable correlations that can be used to generate data driven standards across the industry, and streamline the development of AM parts internally.”

Through the ASTM AM Center of Excellence (CoE), EWI is also working on a variety of programs that will generate data for standards development. This data will be used to help companies understand the properties of AM parts, and improve process parameter development, the company reports. GRANTA MI supports this by capturing a wide variety of data from the full AM value chain, from feedstock characterization to final material property data. This tracked data includes build information, post-process information, non-destructive testing (NDT), and mechanical testing. 

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