Finetuning performance and manufacturing feasibility

Engineers and Designers are under constant pressure to lightweight components, reduce cost, improve quality and increase the throughput of manufacturing. As additive manufacturing (AM) has become more widely adopted, there has been the promise of being able to take full advantage of weight saving opportunities offered by topology optimization and the freedom of geometry offered by AM. The reality is that design, manufacturing and geometry constraints still exist and vary dependent on the AM technology utilized.

Altair offers a unique set of simulation tools to evaluate product feasibility, optimize the manufacturing process, and run virtual try-outs for several subtractive and additive manufacturing processes, including casting, injection molding, metal forming, extrusion, and 3d-printing. In this session, users will learn how to validate designs early in the manufacturing process with the simplicity and affordability of the Inspire family of products.

The motion module included in Altair® Inspire™ enables engineers to evaluate the dynamic response of products and optimize their performance. Dynamic motions of complex systems are easily generated, automatically identifying contacts, joints, springs, and dampers. Motors and actuators can be added and tuned interactively. In this session, you will learn how to simulate complex mechanisms, extract loads, and run analysis and optimization on individual mechanical components.  

Applied early in the product development lifecycle, Altair® Inspire™ accelerates the creation, optimization, and study of innovative, structurally efficient parts and assemblies. Powered by Altair OptiStruct®, the industry standard for topology optimization, Inspire provides a simple, physics-based workflow for generative design of lightweight, manufacturable products. In this session, you will learn about different topology options including optimization objectives, stress and displacement constraints, manufacturable parameters, and design interpretation with PolyNURBS.

Altair simulation-driven design changed product development forever, enabling engineers to reduce design iterations and prototype testing. Discover how Altair® Inspire™ enables rapid design iterations through simplified modeling workflows to help deliver manufacturable, optimal designs early. Investigate structural and modal analysis on a model and visualize displacement, factor of safety, percent of yield, tension and compression, von Mises stress, and major principal stress with speed and accuracy.

During this webinar, we will showcase a unique and game-changing simulation technology for structural analysis that can augment and complement established design and PLM processes. Built from the ground up to handle large, complex models, Altair SimSolid provides fast and accurate simulation results – unmatched in the industry – to drive early and timely design decisions.

Advancements in 3D printing and design optimization for additive manufacturing (AM) is changing the industry’s overall approach to product design. This webinar features Altair Inspire™ a solution for designing parts through additive manufacturing and Amphyon, a complementary partner tool available through the Altair Partner Alliance. Through a combined workflow we’ll demonstrate an alternate and more efficient approach towards generative design. Instead of manufacturing the part, a process simulation in Amphyon is conducted to predict the impact of the AM process to the design. This feedback is then used to optimize design further and improve the manufacturing process by essentially fixing the defects early in the design process.

המיט-אפ מקוון עם המומחים בתחומי האופטימיזציה הטופולוגית התקיים ביום רביעי 25 לנובמבר. רוב עלות המוצר נקבעת בשלבים הראשונים של התכן; הבעיה שבשלבים אלו הידע על התנהגות החלק במוצר היא בסיסית, ובמיוחד אופן השתלבותו הפונקציונלי. השימוש באופטימיזציה טופולוגית מספקת למתכנן בין-היתר כלי איכותי המאפשר לבצע את התכן על בסיס נקודת העבודה האופטימלית. האופטימיזציה הטופולוגית תורמת להבנת התנהגות החלק במצבים שהאינטואיציה ואפילו הניסיון ההנדסי איננו יכולה לחזות. השימוש באופטימיזציה הטופולוגית חוסך סבבי תכן ומאפשרת לבחון/לבחור את טכנולוגיית הייצור. אם בתכן 'מסורתי' המתכנן יוצר את גיאומטריית המבנה ובודק עמידה בדרישות בתכן, בתכן מבוסס אופטימיזציה טופולוגית המתכנן מגדיר את האילוצים והיעדים ומקבל את המבנה האופטימלי. מסתבר שהשקעה של זמן מועט בביצוע האופטימיזציה הטופולוגית בשלב הראשוני של התכן חוסכת זמן וכסף רב. האופטימיזציה משמשת דה-פאקטו כ'מכונת קונספטים' עוד לפני תחילת ביצוע התכן. ההרצאה תסקור ותדגים את השימוש בגישה בתהליכי הפיתוח ברפאל באמצעות תוכנת INSPIRE .

Designing consumer electronics for mass production requires a team of experts focusing on various aspects of design and manufacturing process. With a fragmented engineering process, exchange of models and information can cost valuable time in a competitive landscape. This webinar presents Altair’s unique Simulation Driven Design platform will shorten your design cycle, time which is pivotal to a company’s success.

Altair Expert CAE platform includes high end CAE tools for CAE experts to any simulation, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis (FEA) or electromagnetics are only a few examples which needs your business might have. In this webinar, you learnt how Altair linked the two different worlds of designers and CAE specialists in a smart way within the same intuitive easy GUI on the same database. Both worlds can work on the same database with no need to do work twice or lose information in the development process.

ABB, MX3D, and Altair demonstrate how Industry 4.0 will deliver customized manufacturing equipment.

Altair Inspire Topology Optimization is the world's leading tool for topology optimization, including advanced manufacturing constraints to create production-ready solutions to real-world challenges. In this webinar, we showed how Altair Inspire Optimization technologies provides the foundation on which our customers are able to develop with an easy and intuitive toolchain completely new ways to solve their daily challenges. In terms of component design and manufacturing processes.

Altair Inspire Motion is a dedicated multi-body dynamics (MBD) tool with a robust contact algorithm. It is capable of handling systems with large degrees of freedom and offers a reliable and fast solution. In this webinar, we showed how Altair Inspire Motion had been used to determine loads in the system and is seamlessly coupled with other Altair modeling tools like Altair Inspire Structure and Altair Activate for control simulation to create dynamic motion analyses of complex mechanisms and use these dynamic loads as load cases for optimization.

Medical devices of all kinds must be designed to withstand the structural and operational requirements associated with normal use, drop, and misuse, all while balancing weight and cost considerations. This webinar presents Altair’s workflow to enable simulation of structural, thermal, and fluid properties coupled with electromagnetics, and mechatronics in an integrated Multiphysics environment.

With Altair Inspire Motion we can link components of a mechanism together using various types of joints and contacts to simulate the real-world connections in an assembly.

This webinar will take you through the concept and roadmap phase, all the way to the manufacturing process - all within Altair Inspire and Inspire Print 3D, a revolutionary generative design and 3D printing simulation environment that solves real world production challenges. Learn how to rapidly visualize production defects, rectify problems to avoid downstream production issues, save product weight, reduce material consumption and cost all through the use of intelligent complementary design technologies.

A good Design is not complete unless it meets desired performance and qualifies for efficient manufacturing. Design of sheet-metal components demand the following, From a Design perspective - if sheet-metal can be used for intended design, their sizing & shape, choice of material, weight and cost. From Manufacturability perspective - manufacturing feasibility of the designed shape, allowable thinning and wrinkling limits, addressing process constrains and importantly forming feasibility. Leveraging Simulation to drive the design as it unfolds at the concept generation stage, helps design engineers to accrue downstream benefits upfront.

Using Topology Optimization to Create Manufacturable Product Designs Generative design is one of the hottest buzzwords in the product development world. You've seen the organic structures and promises of material reduction and cost savings, but how and when do you apply these principals to your design process, and how to you ensure that those designs can actually be manufactured? Find out how manufacturers like American Axle are leveraging generative design to improve real-world, in-service products using both traditional and advanced manufacturing processes.

Driving designs that are cognizant of the downstream manufacturing processes Increasing manufacturing costs and stiff competition coupled with low profit margins are posing tremendous challenges to extrusion companies, especially automotive and aerospace industries. One way the leading companies stay ahead of the competition is by reducing the product development time and production costs through virtual testing. Design engineers and analysts use CAE software to analyze and validate die designs and thereby reduce/eliminate costly die trials. This webinar explains how extrusion simulation framework provides an easy to use CAE environment to: - Validate extrusion die designs - Optimize process conditions - Identify potential defects and correct them before becoming critical problems

How to use Inspire for Motion Simulation - Webinar Recording and Training Material

High level, Matrix-based Numerical computing language & unified programming environment for all types of math from solving matrix analysis, differential equations signal analysis and control systems. It is an integrated HyperWorks post processing tool.

The additive manufacturing industry continues to grow as serial manufacturing applications across many sectors are realized. Topology optimization and generative design software further exploit the benefits and capacity of additive manufacturing by generating designs that increase function and reduce material, weight, design time, and cost.

In this webinar we will show how computer simulation is being used to help packaging companies predict design behavior and response, and prevent product failure when subjected to various conditions. Many companies typically think they do not have the time, resources, or funds to implement simulation into their product development. On the contrary, the well-documented ROI secured from implementing successful simulation strategies can help drastically increase profit margins. This webinar was recorded on April 26, 2018.

This webinar covers the complete fail-safe optimization process of a wing rib starting with the search of a new and more efficient design to the calculation of optimum dimensions. The replacement of a metallic fitting by an organic 3D printed version, while increasing performances and decreasing mass reduction is discussed as well. HyperStudy has also been used to perform multi-disciplinary studies throughout the process.

Bringing design optimization, fatigue analysis, casting, and 3D printing together addresses the challenges of lightweight design and enables the creation of an innovative design and manufacturing process that enhances performance and efficiency.