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Faster evaluation of real-world machines - Accurate structural assessment with real loading conditions

Felix Koerfer, Technical Consultant at Altair, gives a Demo Sessions on Altair Simulation Solutions for faster evaluation of real-world machines, explaining how accurate structural assessment with real loading conditions allows assessment of global stress and deformations, evaluation of bolt forces, and how accuracy & deformation of linear bearings cna be achieved.

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Simulation at the Speed of Design

Simulation at the Speed of Design

This presentation discusses the rise of intelligent design technologies used throughout industry to rapidly assess and optimize product performance before physical prototypes. The session includes a brief hands-on demonstration of some of the latest, easy-to-use simulation technologies that are empowering designers and design engineers around the world to capitalize on the digital design revolution. Speakers: Dr. Royston Jones, CTO, Altair Ken Welch, Senior VP Inspire Design and Manufacturing Products, Altair Duration: 20 minutes

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Optimizing a Thrust Balance through a Multiphysics Approach

Optimizing a Thrust Balance through a Multiphysics Approach

Dactem (a DAM group company), developer of specialist test, measurement and assembly solutions for the aerospace industries, presents an overview of the optimization of a thrust balance used for accurate measurements in electrical thruster qualification endurance testing. The presentation will provide details on how a Multiphysics simulation approach was used to find the optimum design taking mechanical, thermal and electromagnetic performance into account. Speakers: Emmanuel Pouleau, CEO, Dactem (a DAM Group company) Pierre Moutet, Engineer, Dactem (a DAM Group company) Duration: 15 minutes

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Introducing Multiphysics Workflows to Accelerate the Design of Electric Motor Driven Systems

Introducing Multiphysics Workflows to Accelerate the Design of Electric Motor Driven Systems

Electrification is everywhere! It brings energy efficiency into systems and also helps add new smart functionalities to products. The electric motor is a key element of such systems, converting electricity into mechanical power. It is multiphysics by nature. Electric machine engineers need to take into account various constraints from the early stage of the design, looking at electromechanical performance, as well as respecting thermal and NVH constraints. Simulations need to integrate these multiple physics and also coupling effects. Dedicated tools and streamlined multiphysics workflows are developed in order to reduce complexity and speed up the design. Speakers: Limin Huang, Electromechanical Engineer, Altair Samia Saaidi, Senior Technical Specialist - Electromechanical Solutions, Altair Duration: 20 minutes

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Workshop: The Role of Simulation From Concept Development to Final Design

Workshop: The Role of Simulation From Concept Development to Final Design

This workshop demonstrates how a simulation-driven design approach to product development can have a drastic impact on the performance, design time, and profitability of a new product. Using a belt sander tool as a demonstration model, our presenters show how Altair’s design and simulation technologies can conduct a concept design analysis and optimization of the sander external housing to improve stiffness and reduce weight. They go on to show how we can simulate the manufacturing process itself by looking at filling, packing, cooling and warpage of the plastic housing; before concluding with a series of stress analysis and validation studies such as a virtual drop test, 3-point bending simulation and even a study of the effect of the heat transfer of the electric motor. This is a valuable session to see how simulation technologies can be used throughout the design process, adding value and reducing development time at each stage. Speakers: Ujwal Patnaik, Global Business Development Manager, Altair Chris Sambell, Application Engineer, Altair Duration: 60 minutes

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Improving Comfort and Robustness of Jabra Headsets with Simulation-driven Design, by GN Audio

Improving Comfort and Robustness of Jabra Headsets with Simulation-driven Design, by GN Audio

The usability of a headset is largely determined by a comfortable fit and its resistance to everyday use. Learn from Alice Lin, Manager of Mechanics at GN Audio R&D how she introduced FEM simulation capabilities at Jabra. The presentation shows how product design benefits from structural analysis, design for comfort, and drop test simulation. A future extension of simulation capabilities intends to address more areas and improve the simulation-driven design process efficiency. Speaker: Alice Lin, Manager of Mechanics, GN Audio Duration: 22 minutes Click the AD icon to select alternative audio translations - French, German, Portuguese and Spanish.

Future.Industry 2021
Bringing the Future Faster Through Innovation and Analysis, by American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM)

Bringing the Future Faster Through Innovation and Analysis, by American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM)

AAM has been providing mechanical drivelines to automotive customers for more than 25 years. As the automobile transitions to electrification, so too must the driveline. AAM has developed a suite of innovative, lightweight, compact and cost-optimized electric drive units and electric beam axles to meet the growing global technology demand as electric vehicles continue to expand over the next decade. Engineering simulation, optimization and validation tools were significant enablers to increase the validation confidence and reduce the time to market for these new products.

Future.Industry 2021
CFD Simulation - Not Just for Experts

CFD Simulation - Not Just for Experts

An intuitive and robust CFD workflow is available in Altair® SimLab® - a process-oriented, feature-based finite element analysis software that allows you to quickly and accurately simulate the engineering behavior of complex assemblies. For fluid and thermal analyses, SimLab can make the model setup process even faster, repeatable, thereby minimizing tedious manual steps that can be automated. A live demo will be performed using real-world models to show the simple and smooth analysis process in Altair SimLab that goes from CAD to results in minutes.

Future.Industry 2021
Topology Optimization Considering Fluid Flows

Topology Optimization Considering Fluid Flows

For the past three decades, Altair’s optimization solutions have driven the innovative, lightweight, and structurally efficient designs of many products you see and use every day. The intense focus on additive manufacturing in recent years have given a boost to topology optimization and generative design, providing more freedom to explore alternatives. Today, we keep on innovating the technology, looking at including multiple physics, like thermal, electromagnetics, and fluid flow to drive design. Altair AcuSolve – coupled with Altair Optistruct – enables engineers to find the optimum shape by simply defining inlets, outlets, and the allowable space in which the solver can work. AcuSolve’s gradient-based topology optimization method will quickly and efficiently find the path of least resistance to deliver fluid flows with minimal effort.

Future.Industry 2021
Overcoming the Thermal Challenges of Electronic Devices

Overcoming the Thermal Challenges of Electronic Devices

To design today’s tightly packaged electronic systems it is essential to create a thermal analysis model of the PCB within its enclosure. Learn how Altair SimLab provides robust and repeatable workflows for fast, accurate, and consistent analysis, even for occasional users allowing them to confidently identify and correct potential design issues earlier in development with accurate thermal analysis that doesn’t require advanced CFD knowledge.

Future.Industry 2021
Real-time Design Modification and Optimization with Altair Inspire

Real-time Design Modification and Optimization with Altair Inspire

Inspire’s new parametric modeling allows you to capture the evolution of your model’s shape by showing the linear sequence in which the geometry was created. You can roll the model backward or forward, as well as group, delete, insert, suppress, or edit entities in the History Browser. Inspire also features a new and improved sketching interface and several new sketching tools. See how you can use these new tools to seamlessly add, remove, and parameterize features in your model and then use the Variables table to quickly make design updates and see how they affect performance is in seconds to minutes.

Future.Industry 2021
Design Finalization using Multiphysics Simulations with Altair SimLab

Design Finalization using Multiphysics Simulations with Altair SimLab

The increasing complexity of machines requires active management and evaluation of potential product failures and simulation of physically accurate conditions during development. Achieved through multiphysics simulation, Altair SimLab can simulate a wide range of interacting physical models including fluid-structure interaction (FSI) and thermomechanical simulation. By helping with complex design problems, simplified modeling workflows give a deeper understanding of phenomena and root causes of unwanted behavior.

Future.Industry 2021
From Product Feasibility to Process Optimization for Metal Forming: Inspire Form

From Product Feasibility to Process Optimization for Metal Forming: Inspire Form

Product engineers are under constant pressure to reduce costs, improve quality and increase the throughput of manufacturing processes. Applying a simulation-driven design for manufacturing (SDfM) approach to product development can help understanding the product manufacturability early in the design cycle, while considering various design alternatives and choosing the best performing, manufacturable design up front. After a brief introduction of the metal forming process, the presentation will explore a typical use case of a sheet metal part - subject to static and dynamic loading – showing how simulation can be very effective in reducing cost for parts redesign and dies modifications, while providing engineers with valuable insights on the manufacturing process and product performance.

Future.Industry 2021
Panel Discussion: Trends in Design and Manufacturing Simulations

Panel Discussion: Trends in Design and Manufacturing Simulations

The goal for any design, structural and manufacturing simulation is to predict and fix defects early in the product development. This panel will discuss how design and simulation tools are helping engineers to be efficient. Experts will share their thoughts on current and future trends in manufacturing, focusing on how designs evolve using manufacturing simulations.  

Future.Industry 2021
Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Rapid Design Exploration Technologies

Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Rapid Design Exploration Technologies

Formula Student is an international motorsport engineering competition where teams from around the world design, build and then compete a formula style racing car. In this presentation, Team Bath Racing discusses how they make use of Altair Inspire for topology optimization and how it enables rapid design iterations.

Presented at the 2nd Altair Academic Outreach Event in June 2021

Speaker: Conor Smith, Outboard Suspension Designer, Team Bath Racing
Duration: 18 minutes

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Manufacturing Process Simulation The Right Model for the Right Decission at the Right Time

Manufacturing Process Simulation The Right Model for the Right Decission at the Right Time

Brett Chouinard, President and COO of Altair discusses Development challenges in Industrial machinery and illustrates how Altair's scalable simulation solutions provide the environment for simulation-driven innovation and how machine learning expands the capabilities furter.

ATCx Industrial Machinery 2021
Faster evaluation of real-world machines -   Improve system understanding with dynamic motion analysis

Faster evaluation of real-world machines -  Improve system understanding with dynamic motion analysis

Daniel Jauss, Application Engineer CAE, gives a Demo Sessions on Altair Simulation Solutions for faster evaluation of real-world machines, explaining how to improve system understanding with dynamic motion analysis to Identify real behavior of the machine assembly and Identify peak loads.

ATCx Industrial Machinery 2021
Faster evaluation of real-world machines -  Improve the Design with Studies and Design Exploration

Faster evaluation of real-world machines - Improve the Design with Studies and Design Exploration

Simon Zwingert, Technical Consultant, gives a Demo Sessions on Altair Simulation Solutions for faster evaluation of real-world machines, explaining how, to improve the design with studies and the design exploration on the complete assembly to perform weld line optimization.

ATCx Industrial Machinery 2021
Faster evaluation of real-world machines -  Vibration Reduction with topology optimization

Faster evaluation of real-world machines - Vibration Reduction with topology optimization

Daniel Jauss, Application Engineer CAE, gives a Demo Sessions on Altair Simulation Solutions for faster evaluation of real-world machines, explaining how to realize vibration reduction with topology optimization performing a modal analysis & Optimization of a machine portal, identifies economic manufacturing alternatives, and conducts a topology optimization for sheet metal constructions.

ATCx Industrial Machinery 2021
Simulation along product life cycle – The future is now From motivation to customer value

Simulation along product life cycle – The future is now From motivation to customer value

Industry expert Dennis Baum presents how Weber Maschinenbau applies simulation, how simulation can be used along product lifecycle and which benefits arise to customers and internal processes.

ATCx Industrial Machinery 2021
Mass Optimization of a 3D Printed, Small Series Prototype e-Drive Housing at Porsche

Mass Optimization of a 3D Printed, Small Series Prototype e-Drive Housing at Porsche

In his presentation, Sebastian Wachter of Porsche takes us through an exciting project where topology optimisation technologies were combined with 3D printing to create a highly innovative engine-gearbox housing that is 10% lighter than the existing component and twice as stiff.

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The Culmination of 30 Years

The Culmination of 30 Years' Investment in Productivity Tools

Altair CTO James Dagg presents an overview of the journey Altair took to develop the leading modeling and visualization technologies we have today, and provides a look at what’s coming next to help you reduce your product delivery time. James Dagg has been at Altair for more than 30 years and is a visionary behind Altair’s software strategy and development activities. He has also led the development of Altair’s concept design technologies and oversaw the development of Altair’s CAE software suite for more than a decade.

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From CAD to Complex Assembly Analysis in Minutes with Altair SimLab

From CAD to Complex Assembly Analysis in Minutes with Altair SimLab

Stephen White, Technical Support Manager, introduces Altair SimLab, a process-oriented, feature-based finite element modeling software that allows you to quickly and accurately simulate behaviour of complex assemblies. SimLab covers multiple physics including structural, thermal and fluid dynamics which can be easily setup and automated, helping to drastically reduce the time you spend creating finite element models and interpreting results.

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Accelerating Crankshaft Modeling with Automation at BMW Motorrad

Accelerating Crankshaft Modeling with Automation at BMW Motorrad

BMW Motorrad is the motorcycle division of BMW, a German multinational company manufacturing luxury automobiles and motorcycles. With the first motorcycle manufactured in 1923, their current product line includes a variety of shaft, chain, and belt-driven models designed for off-road, dual-purpose, and sports powered by a variety of engines ranging from a single cylinder, various two cylinder (parallel twin, flat twin, boxer etc.), four cylinders inline and six-cylinder inline ones. BMW Motorrad faced a challenge with their model build processes, needing to move previously outsourced crankshaft modeling work in-house while also reducing lead time. Through a semi-automated modeling process based on Altair SimLab, BMW Motorrad developed scripts which reduced FE model generation time down 80%, from 2 weeks of manual work to just half a day. Ruediger Ott, HyperWorks Business Development at Altair, presents a use case from BMW Motorcycles who found that they could significantly reduce the model build time of their powertrain assemblies with SimLab, making use of the automation capabilities to minimize manually effort and refinement.

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The Key Role of Simulation in Development of Aluminum Profiles and Study of Glass Structures in Shorter Design Time

The Key Role of Simulation in Development of Aluminum Profiles and Study of Glass Structures in Shorter Design Time

Faraone are specialist in transparent architectures such as canapes, balustrades, staircases, glass partitions and other glass structures. Gabrielle will take us through their design teams who uses SimSolid and Altair Inspire on their structures. Speaker: Gabriele Romagnoli, Head of Structural Engineering, Faraone Duration: 18 minutes

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Altair SimLab Real World Multiphysics Solutions

Altair SimLab Real World Multiphysics Solutions

More and more engineers need to solve problems that can span multiple physics including structural, thermal, electromagnetics, and fluid dynamics.

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Optimization-enabled Structural and Multiphysics Analysis

Optimization-enabled Structural and Multiphysics Analysis

Simulation-driven design powered by topology optimization was created by OptiStruct over two decades ago. Its success has changed the CAE/CAD industry as today all vendors have embraced this trend.

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SimSolid Simulation at the Speed of Design

SimSolid Simulation at the Speed of Design

Simulation has its greatest impact when done early and often in the design process. Now, SimSolid is reimagining how simulation-driven design is performed.

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Driving Design from Concept to Manufacturing with Inspire

Driving Design from Concept to Manufacturing with Inspire

Altair Inspire has rapidly advanced from a topology optimization tool for designers to a design environment spanning industrial design, structural simulation and optimization, motion analysis and manufacturing simulation.

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Development of A new vehicle front sub-frame using Altair Inspire topology optimization

Development of A new vehicle front sub-frame using Altair Inspire topology optimization

Presentation by Edan Lazerson, CAE Engineer, Plasan. The Stormrider is a new vehicle which was designed from scratch and developed by Plasan. Altair Inspire was used for Topology optimization In order to find the ""best"" design for the vehicle front sub frame. The available volume (design space), 5 different load cases and target mass were specified and the optimization software calculated geometry to maximize stiffness. The optimization results were complex to manufacture with traditional technologies; the simulation and design teams collaborated on designing a manufacturable front sub frame assembly. The new design was simulated to ensure it will withstand all the required loads. The front sub frame was implemented and tested on the prototype vehicle. The optimized front sub frame proved mechanically sound, while satisfying the mass and geometrical requirements. The early stage optimization reduced the development time, by creating a valid geometry however, the topology to manufacturable design process is not trivial. In this presentation, we will present the mentioned development stages and compare the test results to the simulation predictions. Presentation at the ATCx in Israel, Netanya on October 30, 2019.

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The C123 Process - A Rapid Simulation Process to Optimise the Weight & Performance Attributes of a BIW Structure

The C123 Process - A Rapid Simulation Process to Optimise the Weight & Performance Attributes of a BIW Structure

Dr. Stuart Bates, Concept Technical Specialist at Altair presents at the UK e-Mobility seminar 2019. Rapid Exploration of Packaging Alternatives e.g. Battery System Layout, Battery Frame / BIW Integration. Developing Balance Design (Weight vs Attribute Performance), Target Setting using Simulation.

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Transformative Flight Transportation: Challenges Become Opportunities

Transformative Flight Transportation: Challenges Become Opportunities

Advances in energy storage, motor efficiency, and flight control systems have us on the potential cusp of a revolution in air mobility. This comes at a time when many traditional transportation infrastructures are saturated and new modes of mobility are desperately needed. The presentation will provide an overview of recent developments in urban- and extended-air-mobility and discuss the hurdles that must be overcome, not only technical obstacles but also challenges in regulations, societal acceptance, and business. It will provide context with an overview of our own technical challenges and successes, from the imminent Transition® to the aspirational TF-X.

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Human Plus Machine: How Sarcos is Revolutionizing the Future of Work with Industrial Robotics

Human Plus Machine: How Sarcos is Revolutionizing the Future of Work with Industrial Robotics

With the prospect of increasing labor shortages among a wide variety of industries, combined with the significant costs of occupational injuries and the ever-increasing pressure to increase productivity, leading robotics company, Sarcos is in a unique position to deploy industrial robotics designed to increase productivity while eliminating injuries, by augmenting rather than replacing human workers. Chris Beaufait, COO of Sarcos, discusses the current robotics landscape, why automation is not the right solution to the problems industries are facing, how Sarcos and its product lineup - including the full body, fully powered Guardian XO exoskeleton - will play a critical role in defining the workforce of tomorrow, and his vision for the robotics industry over the next five to 10 years.

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An Efficient and Automated Design Strategy for Multi-physics E-Motor Development

An Efficient and Automated Design Strategy for Multi-physics E-Motor Development

This presentation introduces an application of a unique, highly automatic, multi-physics design strategy for E-motors, based on a current program at Mercedes-AMG GmbH. The strategy considers essential development requirements including electromagnetics and thermal requirements, NVH, stress and durability. It accommodates for DOE, multi-objective optimization and design exploration methods to be used to explore and find feasible motor designs. The presentation will show how the strategy adds efficiency to the E-motor development process and how it impacts the total costs of development.

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The Key Role of Simulation in Development of Aluminum Profiles and Study of Glass Structures in Shorter Design Time

The Key Role of Simulation in Development of Aluminum Profiles and Study of Glass Structures in Shorter Design Time

This presentation discusses advancements of the range and quality of products in the last few years at Faraone, thanks to the adoption of both Altair Inspire and SimSolid. SimSolid is a great tool that allows Faraone to study and refine the design of complex structures and a variety of different products, not just glass balustrades. In less than half an hour, it makes it possible to analyze and verify a three-story glass staircase, directly from the 3D CAD file, a simulation that would normally requires about half a day. Additionally, Moreover the original CAD drawing does not need simplification, SimSolid® works directly from the 3D CAD file, allowing fewer issues, and a better, final solution.

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Design for Additive Manufacturing with Topology Optimization

Design for Additive Manufacturing with Topology Optimization

Presentation by Avishai Warszawski, Mechanical Designer at IAI, Israel Aerospace Industries at the ATCx in Israel, Netanya on October 30, 2019. The goal of this project is to design a lightweight and stiff support bracket for delicate coaxes which are attached to an electronic unit. The machining design of this bracket, although very light in weight, did not provide the required stiffness and was also very expensive to manufacture. The best approach for design was only realized after the AM team was requested to find a solution. Topology optimization with Altair tools was used to define the best shape that provides the best solution. Finally, the bracket was printed in an SLM machine from AlSi10Mg. In the near future it will be qualified by dynamic tests in accordance with the defined environmental loads.

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Altair Hyperworks Highlights & Future

Altair Hyperworks Highlights & Future

Presentation by Sergi Chanukaev, Country Managing Director, Altair Israel, at the ATCx in Israel, Netanya on October 30, 2019.

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Quadcopters: From System Modeling to Real-Time Simulator

Quadcopters: From System Modeling to Real-Time Simulator

Presenter: John Straetmans, Computer Engineering Student, University of Michigan

This project attempts to build an accurate real-time (RT) drone simulator through the full integration of a 1D functional model of a drone created in Altair Activate®, along with its corresponding geometry, into Unreal Engine via the Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) standard. Then, VR, peripheral controllers, and other functionalities were added to the representation. This task was accomplished by modifying the Altair RT Vehicle Package, making it able to handle not just vehicles, but any system model located in an FMU for co-simulation, in this case a quadcopter model. Once the FMU containing the Altair Activate® drone model was successfully loaded into Unreal Engine, the tools provided by the application allow additional features to be added, such as VR support. By implementing an FMU, together with its geometry, into Unreal Engine, we can visually analyze the dynamics of the system to further verify the drone model and its performance. In the future, this integration process should be facilitated to automatically load any FMU following just a few steps.

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Altair MBD: Celebrating Accomplishments, What

Altair MBD: Celebrating Accomplishments, What's Next

Presenter: Michael Hoffmann, Sr Vice President of Math & Systems, Altair

In this presentation, Michael Hoffmann, Sr Vice President, shares the company’s vision & strategy for Altair’s Math & Systems tools for Model-Based Development – based on providing an open platform tightly connecting 0D to 1D to 3D modeling & simulation. At different stages of their product development cycles, engineers can model and simulate their increasingly complex products as multi-disciplinary systems by using equations, block diagrams, and/or 3D CAD geometry. His scope includes Altair Compose™, Altair Activate™, Altair Embed™, and Altair MotionSolve™ as well as the multi-body motion capabilities in Altair Inspire™. He also spotlights several recent success stories about customers who have used these technologies to drive innovation through simulation.

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Altair SimLab: The New Platform for Multiphysics

Altair SimLab: The New Platform for Multiphysics

Altair SimLab: The New Platform for Multiphysics Gunaseelan Krishnasamy, Vice President, SimLab Development, Altair

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Empowering Designers with Predictive Simulation Technology

Empowering Designers with Predictive Simulation Technology

Jon Heath, Lead Mechanical Engineer at Brompton Bicycle presents at the UK ATC 2019. The Brompton bicycle has been engineered over many years using very much traditional engineering development methods. Introducing FEA tools and methods into the development process has allowed Brompton to reduce development time and improve early stage design robustness.

This presentation details how the company has implemented the Altair Inspire, SimSolid and HyperWorks suites into its development process, enabling its design team to find problems quickly and correct them before prototyping.

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