Granta shares details of Additive Manufacturing Schema.
Granta Design is making key details of the underlying data behind its additive manufacturing (AM) data management solution available to the AM community to encourage AM data and standardisation projects.
The Cambridge-founded company develops tools to support the optimisation of AM processes and the robust data management needed to enable part qualification and certification. Under development since 2010, the GRANTA MI:Additive Manufacturing Package provides industry best practice data structures and tools to capture the complete history of AM process data.
The recently published "Additive Manufacturing Schema Summary Document" identifies the attributes needed to describe AM processes, and proposes best practice for organising these attributes in a database. Granta hopes its publication will increase awareness of the need for these important activities, and support their adoption.
“In talking to organisations that are planning AM projects, we often find that they understand the importance of capturing, sharing, and analyzing the right property and process data, but don’t know where to begin in planning this activity,” said Najib Baig, Product Manager, Material Innovation at Granta Design. “Sharing some key aspects of our Schema will help AM project managers and Standards groups to think through what data they may need to manage, and how."
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Organisations interested in AM data management and standards definition can request a copy of the Summary Document by completing a form online. In return, Granta asks that they engage in collaborative discussions on the topic and provide feedback on the Schema.
GRANTA MI will also be at the 2018 Additive Manufacturing Users Group Conference in April to discuss the management of AM project data, the use of this data to optimize AM processes, and how organisations are planning to provide the right AM information to design and simulation teams. AMUG attendees will be able to get their hands on a copy of Granta’s AM Data Schema document.
