Enhancing Aerospace Design Processes While Lowering Development Costs Webinar

In this webinar, Engineering Manager Roger Dailly and Design Engineer Sean Dobie will summarise a 6-month long trial undertaken by TechnipFMC on Altair SimSolid. They will cover some of the projects trialled using the software and discuss some of the key opportunities seen by using SimSolid over traditional mesh-based FEA software.

Altair SimSolid is a technological breakthrough enabling civil and structural engineers to analyze fully-featured CAD assemblies in minutes, eliminating the time-consuming task of CAD geometry simplification and mesh definition.
With SimSolid, design teams can perform multiple iterations of their most complex models and explore alternatives at blazing speed. Discover the advantages of adopting SimSolid into your project's workflow.

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.

Explore how product engineers can mitigate mechanical failure of electronic system design using simulation tools. Altair's simulation driven design tools help you accelerate and streamline your electronic system design processes. With the age of digitalisation, most of the products have transformed from being mechanical to almost all electronic, turning the entire system into a purely Electronic design.

Altair has been one of the leading providers of simulation tools since the company was established over 30 years ago. Since acquiring SimSolid, we have seen a paradigm shift in structural simulation with many of our customers. An easy learning curve, a simple yet robust process enables you to gain better fidelity in your design and time saving with Altair SimSolid. Watch our SimSolid hands-on workshop recording, where we will cover why companies need to integrate this technology into their product development processes, what is behind this game-changing technology and how companies such as Renault, Whirlpool, and National Oilwell Varco have successfully adopted Altair Simsolid to help save time. In this workshop we will cover: - Fast model preparation, done in minutes. - Analysis of complex parts and large assemblies. - Quick results in seconds to minutes. Hence, multiple design scenarios can be quickly analyzed and compared. - Elimination of Geometry Simplification and Meshing.

Altair has been one of the leading provider of simulation tools since the company was established over 30 years ago. Since acquiring SimSolid, we have seen a paradigm shift in structural simulation with many of our customers. An easy learning curve, a simple yet robust process enables you to gain better fidelity in your design and time saving with SimSolid! Watch our SimSolid webinar recording, where we will cover why companies need to integrate this technology into their product development processes, what is behind this game-changing technology and how companies such as Renault, Whirlpool, and National Oilwell Varco have successfully adopted Simsolid to help save time.

This session is ideal for designers and design engineers who want to rapidly explore the fatigue life of their designs during the early CAD stage of development. Join us and see first-hand how new fatigue assessment capabilities within Altair SimSolid can allow you to set up and run a fatigue analysis with multiple load cases in seconds.

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 .

Simulation to impact design, it needs to validate design as it unfolds and drive its evolution. It needs to work directly on the available CAD geometry and, in many cases, on the entire assembly intact and work fast. Simulation needs to happen at the speed of design! Altair invites you to the “Experts Talk” - an congregation of imminent panel of technical executives, managers, and experts from diverse industry segments. The esteemed panel will share their experience on how they have achieved simulation at the speed of design in their organization, leveraging the game-changing technology Altair SimSolid™.

During this webinar, we will showcase a game-changing design 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. This robust technology, integrated in a modern, intuitive and easy-to-use interface, empowers designers and design engineers with a validated tool to conduct rapid design studies via upfront structural simulation. This rapid design performance feedback helps organizations minimize costly and time-consuming design iterations and conduct fewer tests. It not only shortens the overall product development cycle but, importantly, also lowers the cost of design, all while helping improve structural performance targets. Key Takeaways - Understand how to reduce physical prototyping, thereby reducing costs - Improve structural performance targets - Discover rapid design studies

Technology for designing optimized parts for additive manufacturing, from initial design through simulation of the 3-D printing process will be showcased. An extended example using a customized hip-implant will be used to highlight the various technologies used throughout the process. A brief overview of capabilities will be provided at the beginning, and a summary of benefits will conclude the discussion.

מיט-אפ עם דניאל ז'נו, מהנדס אנליזה וסימולציה מכנית: בהרבה ארגונים העוסקים בתכן מכני קיים צוואר בקבוק הנובע מעומס על מחלקות האנליזה כתוצאה מכך שלמתכנן המכני אין כלים פשוטים מספיק אשר יאפשרו לו לשפר את תכנונו הראשוני. אלטאר ישראל מציגה כלי חדשני הנקרא SimSolid, שאינו מצריך ידע מקדים בתחום האלמנטים הסופיים, ומיועד בעיקר למתכננים המכנים אך גם אנליסטים ימצאו בו שימושיות גבוהה. מטרתו של כלי זה הוא לצמצם את מס' האיטרציות בין המתכנן לאנליסט. כלי זה מספק סביבת עבודה המאפשרת את הגדרת אנליזות שונות (סטטיות, מודליות, דינמיות ועוד) בצורה מהירה מאוד, מאפשר להתמודד בקלות עם הגדרת מגעים וברגים (אין צורך להסירם מה-CAD) ללא צורך בפישוטי גיאומטריה ורישות.

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.

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

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.

Altair Inspire is an easy-to-use rapid simulation solution for design engineers. It enhances the concept development process by enabling simulation-driven design to increase your product’s efficiency, strength and manufacturability. In this webinar, we showed how Altair Inspire Polynurb Technology had been used to redesign optimized structures inuitive and fast. The geometry had been used for notch stress optimization before the we see how the manufacturability will be validated for a 3D printer and casting design.

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.

One of the biggest challenges in the consumer electronics industry is reducing the time-to-market given the highly competitive landscape and there is a stronger emphasis on virtual simulations over physical prototyping. However, performing virtual simulations on large complicated assemblies can be a tedious and time-consuming process due to the complexity of the assembly. This webinar presents Altair’s CAD-based simulation process that can drastically reduce the time taken to build and solve large complicated electronic components.

James R. Scapa brings more than 35 years of engineering experience to his dual role of chairman and CEO of Altair, a title he has held since the company's inception in 1985.

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.

The oil and gas industry is no stranger to challenges. In today’s world, the challenges come from an extremely competitive energy market, the growth of renewable energy, the increasing demand for minimizing the environmental footprint, and most recently the economics effects of the COVID pandemic. For these reasons, the industry is adapting to these challenges by adopting digital transformation initiatives leveraging new technologies and innovative solutions for its success. SimSolid is Altair‘s next-generation, structural simulation tool that can accurately solve complex and large structures directly on CAD models in Minutes! Unlike conventional FEA based tools, SimSolid does not require geometry simplification, meshing, model setup, or high computational resources.

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.

In this webinar, Alexandre Luis Marangoni, Senior CAE Engineer at Whirlpool Corporation discusses how they validated SimSolid against FEA solver results, then implemented the tool into their concept design processes. SimSolid is used at Whirlpool to quickly evaluate concept feasibility, answer critical design questions, and deliver designs to project teams faster than ever before. Altair will demonstrate additional powerful functionality of SimSolid, preview the upcoming SimSolid 2020 release, and introduce an exciting new integration with Altair Inspire. Inspire's award winning user experience for geometry creation and modification can be learned in just a few hours, and now delivers SimSolid's speed and accuracy for structural analysis. For users without access to CAD software, Inspire and SimSolid combine to enable interactive geometry modification while analyzing large assemblies and complex parts, all within one common user interface.

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.

Structural Analysis for Rapid Design Iterations using Altair SIMSOLID

SimSolid is a game-changing simulation technology for designers and design engineers. SimSolid accelerates design exploration with highly accurate engineering simulation. With SimSolid, you can analyze complex assemblies in seconds to minutes, simulate more and prototype less, and finally predict product performance for better design decision making.

One of the biggest challenges in the consumer electronics industry is reducing the time-to-market given the highly competitive landscape. Given the lack of time, companies are becoming more and more dependent on virtual simulations rather than physical prototyping to inform the design process. However, performing virtual simulations on large complicated assemblies can also be a tedious and time-consuming process due to geometry simplification and meshing. Additionally, rapid changes in material, geometry, and assemblies complicate the model building process and make it difficult to generate answers comparing various design iterations. This webinar seeks to introduce a CAD-based simulation process that drastically reduce the time it takes to make informed design decisions on large complicated electronic components. The methods presented in this webinar enable both the design and engineering teams to rapidly explore the performance of large electronic assemblies in seconds as opposed to hours.

Together with Altair, Brompton Bicycle will give you insight into its experiences of utilizing Altair SimSolid, a revolutionary structural analysis solution developed specifically for design engineers. During the 60 minute session, Jonathan Heath, Lead Mechanical Engineer at Brompton Bicycle, demonstrates live how SimSolid is enabling their design and engineering teams to rapidly explore the performance of its new product gaining accurate feedback on whether parts and assemblies are fit for purpose in just a few seconds.

Renault presents how they've adopted SimSolid to significantly speed up design time and gain deep design insights upfront in the design process. Find out how SimSolid is used to run multiple structural simulation iterations directly on their CAD geometry in minutes with amazing accuracy.

No Tradeoffs Required! There has always been a required compromise when it comes to structural simulation. This tradeoff required users to select a tool that excels in either depth/accuracy OR speed (you have likely experienced this yourself). With Altair SimSolid, this compromise is no longer necessary. SimSolid works directly on CAD geometry and gives its users incredibly accurate design insight in seconds to minutes. Blazingly Fast AND Incredibly Accurate Simulation is possible! View our webinar to learn more!

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.

Especially in the early design stages of product development, variants change quicker than conventional FEA tools and processes can keep up with. This is even more apparent when full assemblies or complex structures have to be evaluated. Simulation can be a powerful tool to help inform product development decisions, but you need fast, accurate results in order to react at the speed of design.

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