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and engineers navigate the unfamiliar composites mate- rials landscape. Seeing this challenge, Granta Design (Cambridge, U.K.) is developing the Automotive Material Intelligence Consortium (AutoMatiC), which, it hopes, will help map the autocomposites design landscape by gener- ating best practices for materials information and its use. Established in June 2014, the Consortium comprises manufacturers and suppliers from the automotive and of-highway sectors. Members plan to optimize tools that will help organizations to manage all of the diverse materials-related data they need, to get it all in one place, to capture information about the relation- ships between linked items of data, and to apply this information resource to practical problems. They also intend to share lessons learned and, thus, improve practices. Each has committed to provide Granta with guidance, as it optimizes these tools for automotive applications. Consortium members have the Granta system, called GRANTA MI, installed in-house and use it to manage corporate materials knowledge. A second available software application, GRANTA MI:Materials Gateway, works from within various CAD/CAM, CAE and PLM software systems to provide direct error-free access to materials data. Learn More about the AutoMatiC Consortium online at the CW Blog | short.compositesworld.com/GrantaBlog H i g h T e m p e r a t u r e B o n d T o o l s • BMI • Epoxy M i l l F i x t u r e s P r e s s u r e I n t e n s i f i e r s / C a u l s B a c k u p S t r u c t u r e M a t e r i a l s • Panels, Tubes, Angles B a c k u p S t r u c t u r e K i t s C O M P O S I T E T O O L I N G 6262 W. 34th Street South ● Wichita, KS 67215 Phone: 316-946-5900 ● Email: Sales@BurnhamCS.com 19 CompositesWorld.com NEWS N E W S N S N E W S E N W S W TRENDS: AUTOMOTIVE