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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

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 ...

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, spri...

Urwahn Engineering GmbH is a startup in the biking sector. While bikes must meet many requirements to pass globally recognized test and load case scenarios according to DIN ISO 4210 safety standards, they must also be light to reduce raw material ...

Showcase video for Synera (formerly ELISE), available through the Altair Partner Alliance.

ELISE is a low-code engineering platform for complete process automation. Engineers can use the visual programming environment to automate recurring tasks in all areas, and unlike traditional design proces

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 res

Top use cases for Synera (formerly ELISE), available through the Altair Partner Alliance.

Synera is a low-code engineering platform for complete process automation. Engineers can use the visual programming environment to automate recurring tasks in all areas, and unlike traditional design proces

Automation is conquering more and more areas, both in the real world, for example in the form of handling robots, and in the virtual world. Many software packages make it possible to set up workflows that digitally map processes and fire actions s...

Product engineers are under consistent pressure to reduce the costs, improve the quality and increase the throughput of manufacturing processes. This fast-paced environment is not well suited for trial-and-error manufacturing engineering.

How are engineers responding to these challenges? Is simul

Create, modify, and de-feature solid models using Inspire's modeling tools. Leverage the speed and accuracy of SimSolid to evaluate multiple variants.

Investigate linear static and normal modes analysis on a model and visualize displacement, factor of safety, percent of yield, tension and compression, von Mises stress, and major principal stress.

Design for additive manufacturing with overhang shape controls to help reduce overhangs to create more self-supporting structures.

Easily generate dynamic motion of complex mechanisms, automatically identifying contacts, joints, springs, and dampers.

Renishaw uses Altair signalAI to deliver advanced digital gauging with real-time melt-pool analytics. This AI-driven quality assurance process helps Renishaw identify manufacturing anomalies earlier, develop parts quicker, and realizes a stable pr...

The filling and solidification process of molten metals are very complex in nature and the phenomenon of these process lead to casting defects.​  The defects like shrinkage cavity, porosity, cold shut, and sink, etc. should be identified, and at t...

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 thei...

AI-powered real-time melt-pool analytics for accelerated product development and production.

In every development project, choosing the suitable material is a crucial decision with many interdependencies, and especially in globally distributed value chains, this becomes a challenging task. Material Data Access and availability affect engi...

As AI early adoption gains traction, how will this impact the future of product development?

Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are a rapidly evolving technology and used for a variety of civil and military purposes. To ensure airworthiness, UAS manufacturers rely on advanced simulation and manufacturing techniques to create efficient designs....

Conference at JEC 2021
Nerea MarKaide - Polymers & Composites Expert
CIDETECH Surface Engineering

Abstract
The objective of the AIRPOXY project is to reduce the production and MRO costs of CFRP parts in aeronautics, by introducing a new family of enhanced thermoset composites tha

Conference at JEC 2021
DR.-ING. MARTIN PERTERER, Head of Simulation,
KTM E-TECHNOLOGIES GmbH, Austria

Abstarct
Some 10 years ago, virtual product development was a goal in nearly every part of industry, although in reality, the tools, methods and processes were only available fo

Etteplan offers engineering solutions to the world’s leading manufacturing companies for industrial equipment and plant engineering. Etteplan’s client Wärtsilä were looking to redesign their valve spring press tools used for mounting cylinder head...

Investment casting is a valued manufacturing process known for its ability to produce detailed components with accuracy, repeatability, and in a variety of different metals, waxes, and high-performance alloys.
Producing high-quality casted components is less prone to common design errors when a sim

An Introductory webinar to MCalibration® and PolyUMod® by PolymerFEM, now available through the Altair Partner Alliance.

Enabling customers to perform more accurate finite element simulations of products made from rubbers, plastics, adhesives, and biomaterials, PolymerFEM is the latest company to

Unlike traditional manufacturing, additive manufacturing allows for increased geometric complexity. In order to maximize the added value of additive manufacturing, it's important to create designs that take advantage of this complexity. Using latt...

Altair Inspire Print3D offers an intuitive, process-driven user experience enables users to gain deep manufacturing insights quickly, driving faster and better design decisions. Whether they start from an Inspire assembly or a CAD import, users ca...

MOTO-MAQLAB-UC3M was founded in 2010 by students at Carlos III University in Madrid, Spain, to develop a racing motorcycle for the international MotoStudent competition. MotoStudent is an international event held every two years at the MotorLand, ...

Altair Inspire Print3D offers an intuitive, process-driven user experience enables users to gain deep manufacturing insights quickly, driving faster and better design decisions. It allows to easily generate support structures as part of the design...

Altair Inspire Print3D offers an intuitive, process-driven user experience enables users to gain deep manufacturing insights quickly, driving faster and better design decisions. Leveraging the embedded thermo-mechanical solver, users can easily de...

Top use cases for the PolyUMod Library of user-material models for non-linear finite element modeling of engineering polymers and biomaterials.

Top use cases for MCalibration, a software tool to help select and calibrate advanced, nonlinear material models for finite element (FE) simulation.

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.

An Introductory webinar to ELISE, available through the Altair Partner Alliance.

ELISE is a low-code engineering platform for complete process automation. Engineers can use the visual programming environment to automate recurring tasks in all areas, and unlike traditional design processes, ELISE

Würth Industrie Service GmbH & Co. KG (WIS) is an independent subsidiary of the Würth Group, providing integrated logistics solutions for automated, efficient supply of production materials as well as auxiliary and operating materials. The company...

This presentation is by Program Manager Rob Jopson.

It’s a given that the simulation models we build are intended to capture and predict physical behavior, the data used to create them is not always representative of the manufacturing process used to build the physical part. For layered composite

This presentation is by André Mönicke, Program Manager

Classical composite analysis and certification methods continue to be used in a significant share of the composite design process. In particular, applying classical methods early in design, and integrating them with finite methods as soon as

This presentation is by Dr. Tomasz Garstka and Graham Barnes, LMAT Ltd.

Manufacturing induced deformations and residual stresses are an unavoidable consequence of processing composites at elevated temperatures. A number of mechanisms have been identified causing residual stresses and distortions

This presentation is by Markku Palanterä, Director Composites Business Development, Altair

The composites design and simulation suite by Altair is actively developed with a holistic view to cover all stages of the process from material modeling all the way to the certification of composite struct

This presentation is by Dávid Migács, R&D Engineer at CIKONI GmbH.

A key design issue for new hydrogen-based vehicle drive systems is assuring safety of the start-of-the-art polymer lined, carbon fiber overwrapped vessels working at pressures over 700 bar. Cikoni will describe how a multiscale ap