Italian Boat Designer ABstructures Extends Usage of HyperWorks

Altair's CAE product family helps to structurally design sailboats for the Volvo Ocean Race and the America's Cup.

TROY, Mich – Altair Engineering, Inc announced today that ABstructures, an Italian structural design company that develops sailboat structures for yachts that participate in the America’s Cup and the Volvo Ocean Race, has extended its use of HyperWorks.

ABstructures has been using the HyperWorks suite since its foundation in 2008. The company initially employed OptiStruct, from the HyperWorks suite for topology optimization, along with HyperMesh, the HyperWorks meshing tool. In December 2010, the company extended its use of HyperWorks to RADIOSS, the product suite’s solver, to its development process for the analysis of the behavior of composite materials. Altair’s new agreement with ABstructures includes the rental of 20.000 Grid Works Units (GWUs) for 2011, providing the company with access to every product of the suite, including the use of HyperWorks Partner Alliance (HWPA) products at no additional costs.

In the past, ABstructures applied the HyperWorks suite in the design of the winning Volvo Ocean Race yacht Ericsson 4 as well as the Ericsson 3 yacht. ABstructures is now using HyperWorks to design and optimize three yachts for the forthcoming Volvo Ocean Race and is structurally designing for Artemis Racing, which will participate in the next America’s Cup in 2013 in San Francisco.

To design and optimize the carbon structures of the yachts, ABstructures is using HyperWorks together with other computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools to simulate composites and fluid-structure interactions. ABstructures has achieved fundamental structural improvements of all the yachts it has designed, compared to older-generation yachts. The combination of cutting-edge CAE technology and the extensive hands-on experience of ABstructures’ designers, as well as the close collaboration with Altair Engineering, have enabled the company to deliver the best design for lightweight structural projects.

“I began using HyperWorks in 2003 and have never stopped using it since then,” said Dr. Fabio Bressan, ABstructures. “When I first started to use HyperWorks, I was especially fond of its open platform and the ability to use it with any other available CAE or computer-aided design software. We also like the software suite because it enables us to handle most of the development tasks in structural design within one user interface and because it helps us to easily and quickly understand the challenges of our designs.”

“It immediately gives us the answers we need and therefore helps us drive new ideas and innovation,” adds Dr. Andrea Avaldi, ABstructures. “We particularly appreciate the morphing function within HyperMesh that allows us to change the geometry of our model and have it ready for another simulation run in 10 minutes; without HyperWorks, that would take us probably up to two or three days.”

“Last but not least, we appreciate the good collaboration between our engineers and Altair. The support is outstanding, and we are able to influence future software development by giving Altair our feedback on software enhancements and by testing them,” both designers agree.

“It is always a great pleasure to work with ABstructures,” said Cosimo Pannetta, country manager, Altair Italy. “The company is young and innovative, and the technical exchange between its team and ours is excellent and fruitful for both sides. We are glad ABstructures has decided to extend its use of HyperWorks and are confident that we have the right offering for the company’s needs. On the technical side, HyperWorks opens the possibility for ABstructures to do almost all of its simulation tasks in one software environment. Business-wise, Altair’s patented licensing system offers ABstructures a very flexible usage of all our products, including partner software, at a reasonable price. We are sure that this cooperation will last for many years.”

Altair Engineering and Mindjet Sign Agreement to Offer MindManager through the HyperWorks Partner Alliance

HyperWorks users will soon have access to MindManager information mapping software using their existing HyperWorks Units.

TROY, Mich – Altair has announced the signing of an agreement with Mindjet® to offer its visual information mapping tool, MindManager, through the HyperWorks Partner Alliance (HWPA). This partnership embodies Altair’s commitment to offering a diverse suite of leading software both inside and outside the realm of traditional Computer-Aided Engineering. Planned for official release in the first quarter of 2011, the latest version of MindManager® will be available to HyperWorks users from the HWPA website at www.hyperworksalliance.com at no incremental cost using customers’ previously acquired HyperWorks Units.

MindManager software was created to conquer information overload, simplify project planning and communicate ideas more clearly for individual users, within teams, and across organizations. MindManager’s visual information maps start with a central theme and then add branches with ideas, notes, images, tasks, hyperlinks and attachments. Users can easily import from or export to a variety of applications including Microsoft Office®. MindManager maps are ideal for capturing and organizing information to quickly transform thoughts and ideas into fine-tuned documents, compelling presentations and winning strategies. MindManager has been adopted by more than 1.5 million professionals around the world and 44 of BusinessWeek's® 50 ‘World's Most Innovative Companies’.

“Fostering innovation and driving decision-making is core to what Mindjet’s products and services provide says Ken Hirschman, Mindjet Vice President of Business Development. “We view the HyperWorks licensing system as an ideal conduit to expand our business by leveraging Altair’s global user base to expose new audiences to MindManager.”

HyperWorks is a suite of enterprise analytic applications that includes statistical, database, visualization and simulation software to help companies make better business decisions. Its patented HyperWorks Units licensing technology allows users to transparently share software licenses globally across a broad suite of applications.

“The addition of MindManager to the HyperWorks Partner Alliance demonstrates Altair’s commitment to providing robust and comprehensive solutions,” explains Martin Nichols, Altair Executive Vice President of Global Alliances and Operations. “This is the first HWPA application that can be truly leveraged across an entire organization. Now everyone from engineers to management to purchasing departments can directly benefit from access to the HWPA, which adds compelling value to our software offering.”

Mindjet’s flagship software MindManager will be the latest addition to the growing portfolio of software applications available through the HyperWorks Partner Alliance. These applications cover a variety of domains including CFD, durability, NVH, impact analysis, and injection molding simulation. Gaining access to tools like MindManager enables users to maximize their current investment by utilizing their previously acquired HyperWorks Units. To date, over 450 companies worldwide have joined the HyperWorks Partner Alliance.

500 industry leaders from 275 companies from 30 countries attended the Altair 4th European HTC

The largest CAE event in France.

TROY, Mich – Altair Engineering, Inc., a global provider of technology and services that empowers client innovation and decision-making, today announced that the 4th European HTC attracted around 500 engineers and simulation experts from 275 companies from 30 countries to Versailles to share and exchange their experiences with HyperWorks and to learn more about the latest trends in enterprise simulation. The high volume attendee turnout made the 4th European HTC the biggest CAE event in France.

100 presentations split into 20 sessions described various aspects of HyperWorks applications covering - among others - optimization, NVH, safety, durability, data management, and process automation. Several presentations showed how optimization has been growing from niche to mainstream application, by being integrated into the development process of almost every new product. Andrea-Ivan Marasco’s keynote presentation from Airbus highlighted new trends in aircraft development. In a so- called optimization center, the aircraft company combined its knowledge with the optimization expertise of Altair and the needed computing power to reach additional material savings and to further optimize the development process. This new combined approach is currently also applied by some of Altair’s automotive customers in a customized way.

Other presentations, including one by Ronan Pitois, Eurocopter: “The new HyperMesh/SAMCEF Interface at Eurocopter: Deployment and Industrial Applications”, described how HyperMesh is becoming the de facto standard for pre-processing in the aerospace industry.

“The conference was a very good platform to present our results to the European engineering community”, said Ronan Pitois, calculation engineer at Eurocopter, France. “I found a very interested audience and could share my experiences with colleagues and Altair experts. Events such as the European HTC help to strengthen the relationship between Altair and its customers and give us the opportunity to influence future developments of the software. The new partnership between SAMTECH and Altair, which was actively driven by Eurocopter, has helped us to automate our development processes by interfacing two of our standard development tools. In only a couple of months, the HyperMesh/Samcef chain has demonstrated a very satisfactory level of efficiency, has enabled considerable development time savings and has increased our simulation capacity.”

In the automotive industry Altair noted a stronger adoption of its solvers RADIOSS and MotionSolve. The keynote presentation of Djamal Midoun, Ford: “CAE and Testing, A Hand in Hand Process in Crashworthiness” described how virtual development with RADIOSS and physical testing, especially for crash applications, grow closer together.

Altair‘s CEO James R. Scapa and the company’s CTO for HyperWorks products, Dr. Uwe Schramm gave insights into the future developments of the company and the HyperWorks suite. One of the most important highlights of HyperWorks 11 will be the seamless integration of data management, which will help HyperWorks users to make data management more enjoyable and user friendly, by integrating the functionality in their everyday workflow. This will increase productivity and ensure greater process stability.

“I am very pleased with the attendance of our conference and proud that the European HTC is increasingly drawing participants from outside Europe as well,” said Dr. Michael Hoffmann, Vice President European Operations, Altair Engineering. “This trend shows us that the HTC conference series has become one of the VPD events to visit – in Europe and around the world. It is encouraging that almost all attendees would recommend the conference to their colleagues and that more than 90% were very satisfied with the technical content of the event. This positive feedback supports us in our striving to make the next event even more valuable for the attendees. We are looking back at a very strong year and expect our market share in Europe and our European conference to grow continuously over the next few years, making Altair the leading CAE provider in the market.”

This year’s conference was sponsored by Oracle, Intel and HP as platinum sponsors, and Microsoft, Moldex 3D, and nCode as gold sponsors. In addition to the sponsors, the following exhibitors presented their solutions in the technical showcase: All-HEX, Bull, Cradle, eXstream, Humanetics, FLUIDON, INTES, Magna, Metacomp, NAFEMS, Samtech, SimLab, solidThinking, SGI, and TASS.

OHB Technology AG Chooses HyperWorks as Standard CAE Development Platform

European company for Space Technology & Security, Telematics and Satellite Services uses HyperWorks to develop new satellites for Galileo global positioning system and other satellite and space projects.

Troy, Mich – Altair Engineering Inc., a provider of simulation technology and engineering services that empower client innovation and decision-making, announced today that OHB Technology AG has increased its usage of HyperWorks to consolidate its pre- and post-processing tools to one software suite across all subsidiary companies of the group, including OHB-System, MT Aerospace, Luxspace and Kayser-Threde.

In this context, HyperWorks was selected to be the standard computer-aided engineering (CAE) development platform across the entire OHB Technology AG organization. HyperMesh and HyperView will be used in all current and future development projects, among them the Galileo satellites, a project OHB recently won, as well as other satellite and space projects, including the SGEO and the EnMAP satellites or to develop racks for the International Space Station.

“Since engineers from different companies of our group work concurrently on development projects, it was important for us to harmonize our development tools, especially our pre-processing software to one CAE environment,” said Ulrich Schulz, chief operating officer, OHB Technology AG. “Moreover, because of the challenge represented by the development of complex space systems under extreme scheduling pressure, our engineers must be able to rely on simulation tools that offer not only technical excellence but are also flexible and efficient. HyperWorks provides us with what we need: HyperMesh and HyperView are now daily used by our structural engineers as the standard CAE development platform, Altair’s optimization tool, OptiStruct, offers an ideal solution to support structural concept design, and the third party partner products of the HyperWorks Partner Alliance allow us to cover niche applications at no additional costs. The licensing system, which offers a flexible access to all the tools we need group wide, was an extra benefit for Altair’s CAE suite.”

“The decision of OHB Technology AG to make HyperWorks its standard CAE platform shows that we have the technology and the commercial offering our customers need,” said Dr. Detlef Schneider, managing director, Altair Engineering GmbH. “Some of the group’s subsidiaries have been using HyperWorks for a long time already. To broaden the use of our CAE suite to all development departments within the group will help OHB to consolidate development efforts and will enhance collaboration between the different companies. The HyperWorks licensing system guarantees an efficient and flexible workflow and we are very proud that HyperWorks is used in such an important future driving project as the Galileo program.”

Sogeti High Tech GmbH Multiplies Number of HyperWorks Seats by Almost Factor Five

Engineering services provider chooses HyperWorks as standard CAE platform to support process oriented development efforts.

Troy, Mich – Altair Engineering Inc announced today that Sogeti High Tech GmbH, Germany, a renowned engineering service and consulting provider for the aerospace, automotive, energy, defence, and transport sectors, has massively increased its use of HyperWorks and made the suite its standard computer-aided engineering (CAE) platform.

Sogeti High Tech GmbH is using HyperMesh and HyperView, the pre- and post-processing solutions of the HyperWorks suite, OptiStruct for optimization tasks and for the design and optimization of composite components, and partner products included in the HyperWorks Partner Alliance program for fatigue and process simulation. HyperMesh replaces Sogeti High Tech GmbH’s existing solution for model meshing as it offers improved usability and more functionality at the same time. All tools are applied to projects in the aerospace, rail and defence industries and for the internal test and research of new materials.

“We were seeking a one tool solution to enable process oriented work, which is exactly what HyperWorks offered,” said Carlos Ribeiro, business group manager, Analytical Numerical Simulation, Sogeti High Tech GmbH. “We started off with HyperMesh, which I consider one of the best meshing and pre-processing environments available on the market because it is fast, efficient, and offers an open platform that supports our development processes. Additionally, the other products, which we can access via the HyperWorks Partner Alliance, help us in our everyday work.”

“I am very pleased to see Sogeti High Tech GmbH select HyperWorks as its standard CAE platform,” said Dr. Detlef Schneider, managing director of Altair Engineering GmbH. “HyperWorks and the HyperWorks Partner Alliance meet the needs of engineering service providers by offering them the flexibility and efficiency their competitive market requires. Our customers recognize the benefits of our open architecture philosophy and our commitment to supply an excellent return on investment across all our products and services. We provide this flexibility and efficiency through the unique HyperWorks licensing system, which diversifies our offerings from our competitors.”

“In our business it is crucial to use the software environments our customers require us to use,” added Francis Gilly, Business unit manager “Technology”, Sogeti High Tech GmbH. “HyperWorks offers an open platform which can be used with any solver our customers require. It also gives us access to a broad range of best-in-class CAE tools, with just one license without additional costs. This helps us to be as flexible and efficient in our consultancy work as our customers expect us to be, while consolidating our software investments. This provides us with an important competitive advantage.”

Altair adds FTire by cosin scientific software to the HyperWorks Partner Alliance

FTire’s integration to Altair’s MotionSolve enables realistic, full vehicle model simulation accessible under one licensing system.

TROY, Mich – Altair, a global provider of technology and services empowering client innovation and decision making, today announced the addition of FTire to its HyperWorks Partner Alliance (HWPA). FTire, a full 3D nonlinear tire simulation model, is developed by cosin scientific software and interfaces with Altair’s MotionSolve, a mechanical systems simulation solver, which enables realistic, full vehicle model simulations to improve durability and vehicle ride comfort. HyperWorks users can now download the latest version of FTire from the HWPA website at www.hyperworksalliance.com and use it at no incremental cost through their existing HyperWorks software license system. To date, over 340 companies worldwide have joined the HyperWorks Partner Alliance.

FTire is used by engineers in the vehicle and tire industry worldwide for vehicle durability and ride comfort analysis. FTire supports industry standard road input data files for analytical and discretized road surfaces. Coupled with HyperWorks MotionSolve Multi-Body Dynamics (MBD) technology, HyperWorks Partner Alliance users can employ FTire’s highly sophisticated tire simulation capabilities for 2D and 3D road surfaces, enabling efficient and accurate system level simulation of on-road vehicles. The Altair MotionSolve-FTire interface can be used for any model simulation of a vehicle equipped with passenger or light truck/SUV tires within a variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace and defense.

"The on-demand availability of FTire in the HWPA brings together the benefits of high end tire modeling with MotionSolve MBD technology in a convenient and flexible way,” said Gerald Hofmann, Partner at cosin scientific software. “FTire has established its position as the leading higher-frequency and short-wavelength tire model over the last years. Today, almost every important OEM in the automotive industry is using FTire for critical road loads, ride comfort and vehicle durability simulations. The reduced administrative overhead obtained by using the HyperWorks licensing scheme allows both the end user and cosin to focus on development and application rather than on software and license availability issues."

HyperWorks is a suite of enterprise analytic applications that includes statistical, database, visualization and simulation software to help companies make better business decisions. Its patented HyperWorks Units licensing technology allows users to transparently share software licenses globally across a broad suite of applications. MotionSolve, an application within the HyperWorks suite, is a powerful mechanical-systems simulation solver based on a modern formulation tuned for computation speed and results accuracy. With robust solutions for dynamics, kinematics and statics, MotionSolve provides analysts and designers with powerful capabilities to accurately simulate and analyze complex mechanical-systems behavior and performance.

“Here again, Altair has teamed up with one of its strategic partners to offer our users a fully integrated solution accessible under one simple licensing model,” said Martin Nichols, Altair Executive Vice President of Global Alliances and Operations. “The integration of HyperWorks MotionSolve and cosin’s FTire provides a comprehensive full vehicle mechanical systems simulation tool. Vehicle and tire manufacturers can easily test and implement this technology to significantly improve their tire dynamics predictions. Best in class technology and cost-efficient delivery are the main drivers behind the success of the HyperWorks Partner Alliance.”

The partnership with cosin scientific software brings the total number of applications available under the HyperWorks platform to 57 including 32 third-party software applications such as FTire. These applications enable users to maximize their current investment in HyperWorks licenses by giving their engineers and designers flexible access to a growing pool of leading technology solutions.

Altair adds DIGIMAT by e-Xstream engineering to the HyperWorks Enabled Community

Material and Structure Modeling Platform Bridges the Gap between Injection Molding Simulation and RADIOSS.

TROY, Mich – Altair, a provider of technology and services empowering client innovation and decision making, today announced the addition to its HyperWorks Enabled Community (HWEC) of DIGIMAT by e-Xstream engineerin, a developer of leading nonlinear multi-scale modeling technology for composite materials and structures. HyperWorks users can now download the latest versions of Digimat –MF, Digimat-MX, Map and DIGIMAT to RADIOSS including the coupling to injection molding simulation codes from the HWEC website at www.hyperworkscommunity.com. They can access the DIGIMAT software listed above at no incremental cost using their existing HyperWorks software license tokens. To date, over 340 companies worldwide have joined the HyperWorks Enabled Community.

DIGIMAT enables users to bring innovative and high quality products to market faster through highly efficient and accurate modeling of composite materials and structures using finite element analysis (FEA). Better models mean fewer prototypes to be built, which in turns lowers the development time and cost. DIGIMAT also allows users to lightweight composite structures, leading to the reduction of induced gas emissions and raw material consumption, while optimizing their mechanical, thermal and electrical performance.

“e-Xstream is very pleased to offer the DIGIMAT suite to the HyperWorks Enabled Community,” said Roger Assaker, Co-Founder & CEO of e-Xstream engineering. “These tools will enable composite material suppliers and users to reduce the time and cost needed to develop innovative materials and structures. DIGIMAT will notably enable plastic suppliers and users to model the nonlinear behavior of reinforced plastic parts taking into account the effects of the injection molding process.”

DIGIMAT is the leading software for modeling composites and it is the industry standard for the modeling of reinforced plastic parts. DIGIMAT to RADIOSS includes the interfaces to injection molding codes (i.e Moldex3D) to enable material and structural engineers to perform accurate and efficient FEA of fiber reinforced plastic parts where DIGIMAT is used to model the nonlinear, anisotropic and rate-dependent behavior of the material also taking into account the fiber orientation, residual stresses and temperatures and weld lines predicted by injection molding, locally on the structure.

DIGIMAT provides accurate failure prediction, micromechanical material modeling, and nonlinear multi-scale structure modeling. It also offers an efficient modeling procedure and intuitive graphical user interface. Digimat-MX, The Material eXpert system has a composite materials database used to prepare, store, retrieve, securely exchange and reverse engineer material models. Map, the Shell & 3D mapping software allows user to transfer fiber orientations, residual stresses, temperature and weld lines from the injection molding simulation mesh to the advanced FEA mesh. HWEC users can access the DIGIMAT suite in conjunction with HyperWorks using their existing HyperWorks Units.

“We are excited to add DIGIMAT to the HyperWorks Enabled Community. The interest from our users in the development of advanced materials has grown tremendously over the past few years” said Martin Nichols, Altair Executive Vice President of Global Alliances and Operations. “This addition is particularly timely since Moldex3D, an injection molding simulation tool, was recently added to our program. The combination of DIGIMAT, Moldex3D and RADIOSS is a very attractive solution to many of our users. We take great pride in offering innovative technology to our customers at no incremental cost through Altair’s flexible licensing model.”

HyperWorks is a suite of enterprise analytic applications that includes statistical, database, visualization and simulation software to help companies make better business decisions. Its patented HyperWorks Units licensing technology allows users to transparently share software licenses globally across a broad suite of applications.

The partnership with e-Xstream engineering brings the total number of applications available under the HyperWorks platform to 56 including 31 third-party software applications such as DIGIMAT. These applications enable users to maximize their current investment in HyperWorks licenses by giving their engineers and designers flexible access to a growing pool of leading technology solutions.

Airbus engineers leverage HyperWorks’ aerospace technology to develop innovative catamaran components

HyperWorks’ Optimisation Solutions Give the Airbus-Sponsored ‘Team Invictus’ a Winning Edge in the International C-class Catamaran Challenge 2010.

Leamington Spa, UK – Altair Engineering announced today that Team Invictus, a dedicated group of Airbus engineers and professional sailors, has deployed the HyperWorks suite of simulation tools to aid in the design of a new racing catamaran. The Bristol-based team, sponsored by Airbus, is leveraging the flexible model build and optimisation technologies within HyperWorks to minimise development time and overall weight for their bespoke racing catamaran. The team is scheduled to enter the vessel for the International C-class Catamaran Challenge (I4C) at the New York Yacht Club later this year, a competition not won by a British team for almost 40 years.

HyperWorks’ optimisation solution, OptiStruct, has become a standard tool for Airbus when designing lightweight components and composite-material structures to reduce aircraft fuel consumption. The same technology is now being deployed by the aerospace engineers to reduce the mass of critical catamaran components to ensure a minimum-weight, maximum- speed design. One example of how Team Invictus used OptiStruct for optimised component design is the development of a new, lightweight mast fitting. The component, a cone at the base of the wingsail, undergoes extremely heavy loading during use. Team Invictus used OptiStruct’s topology optimisation module to automatically identify the ideal location for structural material that would meet all required performance criteria. The cone was then manufactured from titanium powder using laser sintering, the first use of this process for a structural component within Airbus.

“The design of the cone was a real challenge for us, since it is heavily loaded but needed to remain light and simple to manufacture. It's one of the most important parts of the boat, and we cannot afford any breakages there,” said Julien Chaussee, future project engineer at Airbus and a member of Team Invictus. “Having access to the Altair HyperWorks suite via Airbus, we were able to apply the experience gathered in our day-to-day work to shorten the development cycle. The topology optimisation took only a couple of hours to run from setup to final results. Combined with the highly innovative manufacturing process available to us, thanks to Airbus and EADS Innovation Works, it allowed us to obtain a complete solution from design to assembly in a matter of days, rather than months—all this for less than one kilogram!”

With the HyperWorks suite proving to be a highly successful solution for Team Invictus, the optimisation technology will be used more aggressively as the final design of the catamaran takes shape.

‘It is exciting to see the HyperWorks suite being implemented by Airbus engineers on this ambitious project,’ said Maurice Linscott, regional director of Altair UK. “The drive to reduce the weight of aircraft through optimisation and the integration of more composite materials draws many parallels with the business drivers affecting our clients in the boat and yacht manufacturing industries worldwide. Team Invictus has the engineering experience, along with the best simulation tools available to make its bid for the I4C a success. I would like to wish the team members the best of luck in this and future races.”

Ford's Paul Mascarenas to Keynote Altair Engineering's Americas HyperWorks Technology Conference

Ford's Vice President of Engineering for Global Product Development to open the April 27-29 conference at the Rock Financial Showplace in Novi, Mich.

TROY, Mich – More than 600 professionals are expected to gather at Altair Engineering’s 2010 Americas HyperWorks Technology Conference (HTC2010), one of the premier product lifecycle management (PLM) technology events in the advanced manufacturing community. Ford Motor Company’s Vice President of Engineering for Global Product Development, Paul Mascarenas, will open the April 27-29 conference at the Rock Financial Showplace in Novi, Mich. with a keynote address titled, “ONE Ford - Accelerating Global Product Development.”

“Leveraging the benefits of innovative digital technologies, such as advanced CAE simulation tools and virtual vehicle assembly, is a key enabler to Ford's Global Engineering strategy,” Mascarenas said. “I look forward to sharing my experiences at the HyperWorks Technology Conference.”

HTC2010 will feature several renowned keynote speakers – from Ford, Porsche, Boeing, BAE Systems, the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) and NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) – as well as 40 presentations where technology thought leaders will discuss industry trends in enterprise simulation and how manufacturers are enabling innovation through simulation.

Presenters and attendees come from a wide range of advanced manufacturing industry verticals, including aerospace, automotive, consumer products, electronics, healthcare, heavy equipment, military, rail transit, ship building and white goods.

“It is important for the advanced manufacturing community to share industry needs, challenges and successes to continue to grow and innovate,” said Mike Humphrey, Americas executive vice president, Altair Engineering. “The economy has reshaped manufacturing; as a result, technology is playing an even bigger role in PLM. Conferences like HTC2010 provide a forum for knowledge sharing across industries to enhance innovation and long-term viability.”

HTC is Altair’s premier annual event and is free for all attendees. The three-day HTC2010 conference will offer sessions on advancements in the areas of simulation-driven design practices, design optimization, data management, process automation, cloud computing and decision support systems. Attendees also have access to an extensive hardware and software exhibition.

Coustyx from ANSOL is now Part of Altair’s HyperWorks Enabled Community

Altair Adds Leading Acoustics Technology.

TROY, Mich – Altair today announced the addition to its HyperWorks Enabled Community (HWEC) of Coustyx from Advanced Numerical Solutions, LLC (ANSOL), a developer of innovative solutions for design and analysis of mechanical systems. HyperWorks users can now download the latest version of Coustyx from the HWEC website at www.hyperworkscommunity.com and use Coustyx at no incremental cost through their existing HyperWorks software license system. This brings the total number of applications available under the HyperWorks platform to 54 including 26 third-party software applications such as Coustyx.

Coustyx is a next-generation analysis software that integrates Advanced Boundary Element formulations with Fast Multipole Method to yield fast, accurate solutions to very large problems in acoustics, across a wide frequency range. Coustyx is developed with support from the National Science Foundation.

“ANSOL looks forward to accelerating the adoption of Coustyx into the global Altair customer base through the HyperWorks Enabled Community,” said Rajendra Gunda, Project Scientist for ANSOL. “Coustyx is a complimentary solution to the HyperWorks suite which allows customers to create better products.”

To date, over 265 companies worldwide have joined the HyperWorks Enabled Community, maximizing their current investment in HyperWorks licenses by giving their engineers and designers flexible access to a growing pool of leading technology solutions.

HyperWorks is a suite of enterprise analytic applications that includes statistical, database, visualization and simulation software to help companies make better business decisions. Its patented HyperWorks Units licensing technology allows users to transparently share software licenses globally across a broad suite of applications.

“Altair is excited about this new partnership with ANSOL, it provides our customers with an easy to use, robust and cost effective solution for simulating acoustic phenomena”, said Michael Humphrey, Vice President of Altair’s Global Partner Programs. “With the addition of Coustyx into the HWEC, Altair is extending our portfolio of solutions for engineers concerned with minimizing the Noise, Vibration and Harshness of their products.”

Aerostruktur Faserverbundtechnik GmbH selects HyperWorks Suite for airborne structures

Faster and more flexible design of fiber-reinforced plastics.

TROY, Mich – Altair Engineering, Inc announced today that Aerostruktur Faserverbundtechnik GmbH, a Germany-based aerospace supplier, has chosen HyperWorks, Altair's computer aided engineering (CAE) suite, to reduce modeling time and to accelerate the overall development process.

Aerostruktur Faserverbundtechnik GmbH specializes in design, development, and manufacturing of complete airborne structures and components. The company has broad expertise in design and manufacturing techniques involving fiber-reinforced plastics and started to use HyperWorks in May, 2009, with the suite’s pre- and post-processing tools: HyperMesh and HyperView, as well as the suite’s solver, RADIOSS. All tools are used for basic engineering design work, including structural analysis in the aviation and aerospace field, but also for military applications.

"The decision to switch to HyperWorks was especially driven by the fact that HyperMesh is much faster and more flexible than any competitor’s tool we have tested,” said Dipl.-Ing. W. Hoffmann, managing director at Aerostruktur Faserverbundtechnik GmbH. “Quick meshing and geometry cleanups can be done a lot easier and are partly automated, which saves us considerable modelling and meshing time. Furthermore, HyperWorks will help us to streamline our core activity, the development of advanced structures of fiber-reinforced plastics."

“I am very pleased with Aerostruktur’s selection of our HyperWorks Suite,” said Dr. Detlef Schneider, managing director, Altair, Germany. “We see a high interest on the part of aerospace OEMs and suppliers in adopting HyperWorks’ superior modeling, visualization and optimization technologies. In particular, our solutions for the optimization of composite structures are key for further improvements in aerospace development and lead to lighter and better products created in less time.”

More than 500 experts turn up at the 3rd European HyperWorks Technology Conference 2009

TROY, Mich – Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of technology and services that empower client innovation and decision-making, today announced record attendance numbers for the 2009 European HTC. The 3rd European HyperWorks Technology Conference took place from November 2nd until 4th in Ludwigsburg, Germany. More than 500 engineers, managers, and simulation experts from 250 companies and 20 countries came to Ludwigsburg to experience the latest news and trends in enterprise simulation and to exchange experiences with other HyperWorks users.

Notable trends throughout all industries remain saving resources and accelerating innovation. Saving resources was illustrated by process automation examples cutting development time by up to 90%, by optimization examples saving 650,000 tons of material annually, and by software harmonization examples reducing licenses costs by 40%. Accelerating innovation was the unifyied response to the challenges of the current economic crisis. Keynote speakers from CNH, Eurocopter, Porsche and PSA emphasized that virtual methods are a central part of their innovation strategy and core to their business success.

"It was a pleasure to be a keynote presenter at this year's European HTC," said Gennaro Monacelli, Director Design Analysis and Simulation, AG & CE Competence Centre, CNH Italia S.p.A.. "Not only was it impressive to present to such an experienced and big engineering audience, it was also a pleasure to listen to a diversity of good papers presented during the conference. Additionally the networking and experience exchange on development strategies and virtual product development methods with fellow engineers and managers was very good. The European HTC surely is a conference to recommend to every engineer in product development and an event I am looking forward to visiting again."

“We are very pleased with the outcome of this year’s European HTC,” said Dr. Michael Hoffmann, Vice President European Operations, Altair Engineering. “The growth of 25% in attendees over 2008 demonstrates that the HyperWorks value propositions of saving resources and accelerating innovation resonate particularly well during these challenging times. Our attendees appreciated that Altair continues to deliver innovations like breakthrough time savings in crash simulations and novel CAE enterprise solutions.”

Also the technical showcase with 30 exhibits, including eight booths of HWEC (HyperWorks Enabled Community) program participants was very well received by all attendees and offered opportunity to network and keep up-to-date about Altair’s partner offerings in software and hardware.

"I was very pleased with the level of energy and excitement at the EHTC," says Dr. Farzin Shakib, CEO of ACUSIM Software, Inc. "We met a number of high caliper potential ACUSIM users who are interested in both our basic fluids only as well as complex Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) solutions. ACUSIM's FSI solutions are considered the best-in-class solutions for solving coupled fluid flow and structural phenomena and have been adopted by multiple top structure code manufacturers."

"Within the accompanying technical showcase of the conference we had a dedicated partner village for our HyperWorks Enabled Partners, of which 8 participated in the 2009 European HTC. All of our partners and exhibitors reported a very good level of interest and interaction from the European customer base", said Michael Humphrey, VP Partner Program at Altair. "Customers are still excited about our continuously growing HyperWorks Enabled Partner Program. It continuous to increase the value of existing investments in HyperWorks Units and provides the flexibility to run partner products at no additional costs."

The EHTC was sponsored by SUN, HP, Bull Fluidon, Metacomp, solid Thinking, nCode, Software Cradle, Magna Powertrain, exhibitors were: Tass, ACUSIM IBM, Microsoft, EMSS, ForceFive, e-Xstream, Cluster Mechatronics, PEC, VDC, NAFEMS, DYNAmore, and Intes. Porsche presented the new Panamera, the Racing Team of the Technical University of Freiberg and the Tuning Akademie Aachen exhibited their race cars, the University of Arts in Bremen showed their ornament design created with OptiStruct and the DKI (Deutsches Kunststoff-Institut) showed the mountain bike they developed jointly with Rotwild.

Geometric Limited's French subsidiary Adds HyperWorks Suite as a Preferred CAE Tool Set

TROY, Mich - Altair Engineering announced today that Geometric SAS, the French subsidiary of Geometric Limited has added the HyperWorks platform to its preferred set of CAE tools. HyperWorks will be used to provide finite element (FE), optimization, and modeling services to all of Geometric’s European customers, especially in the automotive industry.

“Geometric SAS has been using HyperWorks for over a year now and benefitted by its unparalleled speed and flexibility. HyperWorks allows us to develop and compare many design conditions in a highly interactive and visual environment. Its ability to handle large models allows a much finer mesh, and simulations that are precise. HyperWorks’ graphical user interface is easy to learn, and supports the direct use of CAD geometry and existing finite element models, thus reducing redundancy,” said Avinash Salelkar, vice president and head of the Engineering Services business at Geometric.

“The HyperWorks license will be used to provide FEA and FEM services to our European customers in the automotive domain. As part of Geometric’s global engineering initiatives, work gets distributed amongst its delivery centers across the globe. Geometric SAS finally collates the data and performs a final check before the delivery to the client, this is a part of the direct FEA/FEM engagements that our French operations have,” Said Salelkar.

"We are pleased that Geometric SAS has quickly realized business benefits from its selection of HyperWorks," said Mauro Guglielminotti, managing director, Altair Engineering in France. "The value of the HyperWorks business model, its broad application scope, and open-architecture design enables engineering service companies, like Geometric, to more easily address the varied engineering requirements that are inherent with organizations that have diverse client bases."

ATR INGENIERIE selects HyperWorks Suite to streamline mechanical engineering projects

Multidisciplinary feature of Altair’s CAE suite helps to cover wide range of engineering tasks at French engineering service provider.

TROY, Mich – Altair Engineering announced today that ATR INGENIERIE, a leading French engineering service provider, has selected HyperWorks, Altair’s CAE suite, to further streamline the company's engineering capabilities for projects within its mechanical engineering division.

ATR INGENIERIE carries out projects, expertise and studies in industrial engineering for new plants and equipments and for operating cycle and dismantling for the nuclear sector, as well as for industries with risks in general. ATR INGENIERIE is involved in a large domain of activities, such as operating and hazard analysis, new facilities design and building assistance, decommissioning and waste management.

Thanks to HyperWorks and the HyperWorks Enabled Partner Program, the engineers of ATR INGENIERIE’s mechanical engineering department, dealing with highly complex projects, will be able to cover all upcoming CAE tasks within the same software environment and under an integrated licensing system.

In addition, ATR INGENIERIE has introduced a partnership with Altair France. This partnership will assure ATR INGENIERIE’s customers the use of HyperWorks and especially the use of RADIOSS, the nonlinear solver of the CAE suite, to its full potential. RADIOSS will be used to simulate drop tests of metallic and reinforced concrete containers. The aim is to define robust packaging concepts for transport and storage of hazardous material. The accelerated model creation with HyperMorph and HyperStudy will bring an additional value to the projects of ATR INGENIERIE, especially regarding optimization and robustness studies.

“The multidisciplinary character of HyperWorks was a major reason for us to choose HyperWorks,” said Sylvain Tholance, project manager, ATR INGENIERIE. “Altair’s software allows us to treat a wide range of problems, including classic linear static analysis, thermo mechanics, fatigue, frequency response and spectrum analysis, and fast dynamic impact problems involving fluid-structure interaction. Last, but not the least, Altair’s on-demand licensing system helps us to react rapidly to all of our customers’ requests and to work on all types of applications, since it also gives us access to several partner applications.”

“We are very pleased about the relationship with ATR engineering,” said Mauro Guglielminotti, regional director, Altair France. “They use the full range of our HyperWorks products and participate in the HyperWorks Enabled Partner Program, which gives them access to a broad range of partner applications at no additional cost. I’m looking forward to the partnership with ATR INGENIERIE, and I am sure that everyone involved - Altair, ATR and our joint customers - will highly benefit from it.”

MECAPLAST Group, France, extends use of HyperWorks to optimize automotive equipment

Altair’s CAE product family helps automotive supplier to build lighter and better components.

TROY, Mich – Altair Engineering, Inc, aprovider of simulation technology and engineering services, announced today that MECAPLAST Group, France, one of the leading European automotive suppliers, has extended its use of HyperWorks to optimize its automotive products for weight and performance.

Altair’s CAE software family will be used within the Finite Element Analysis Department for the Body Skills Centre of the company, which is working closely with the Design Department and the Test & Validation Laboratory of MECAPLAST Group to evaluate technical specifications of its customers via simulation and to provide mechanical improvements toward a ‘right-at-first-time’ solution. In addition, the department is also working on the optimization of injection molded trim components taking into account tooling constraints.

Being a long-time Altair customer, MECAPLAST Group started using the HyperWorks suite in 2005 with the implementation of HyperMesh. The suite’s finite element analysis (FEA) pre-processing software is used for the meshing of virtual models, such as garnish trims and door handles. Soon after, MECAPLAST Group implemented RADIOSS, Altair’s FEA solver, into its development process for static and dynamic analysis. Recently, the company expanded its use of the HyperWorks suite to include OptiStruct for structural optimization. OptiStruct will be used to optimize the design of products, such as the inertia/weight ratio of garnish trims.

“When we first started to use HyperWorks, we were looking for an innovative meshing solution,” said David Queval, FEA manager, Finite Element Analysis Department of Car Body Skills Centre, MECAPLAST Group. “The advantage of HyperMesh is the time savings we can realize with its automated meshing process. The open architecture design of HyperMesh also allows us to directly import and mesh any CAD model and export FE models to a large panel of commercial solvers. We discovered a cutting-edge solver technology in HyperWorks, RADIOSS, that addresses the needs of our Body Skills Centre and we are now beginning to leverage HyperWorks’ optimization solution, OptiStruct. Weight optimization is gaining importance within the automotive industry, and customers and end-users alike are looking for lighter and better products that help to save money and to reduce CO2 emission. OptiStruct will enable us to meet those demands by developing and producing better and lighter parts in less time.”

“We are very pleased with MECAPLAST Group’s decision to extend its use of HyperWorks,” said Mauro Guglielminotti, regional director, Altair, France. “With our HyperWorks CAE suite, we offer engineering companies like MECAPLAST Group all the simulation tools needed for an optimized development process. The extended use of HyperWorks at MECAPLAST Group will help to streamline development processes and will soon lead to shorter development times and an even better product quality. With OptiStruct, companies can address industry demands for weight- and shape-optimized products and drive the design process with simulation to get better results faster.”

Composite technology specialist - High Modulus standardizes on the HyperWorks Virtual Design Suite

TROY, Mich – Altair Engineering, Inc announced today that High Modulus Europe, the UK office of a world-leading supplier of composite technology and structural engineering services, has selected the HyperWorks simulation suite to enhance its composite design process.

This decision is part of High Modulus’ strategy to standardize its virtual composite design technology on HyperWorks tools throughout its global offices. The computer aided engineering (CAE) suite and its integrated solver solution, RADIOSS, were selected because of their ease of use and ability to significantly decrease the timescales involved with complex composite structural design tasks.

“As a consultancy, we have to stay responsive and commercially competitive, without compromising the high service quality our clients have come to expect from High Modulus,” said James Anderson, senior design engineer and FE team leader, High Modulus. “When I joined the company, we were using an alternate virtual design solution at our head office in New Zealand, and despite having very experienced staff, it was taking us a considerable time from start to finish of an FEA project. We halved this time by switching to HyperWorks, so this solution was the clear choice when assessing the design tool requirements for our European office. The CAE suite has allowed us to be extremely flexible for our clients, since we can perform more design iterations more quickly.”

High Modulus has a long history of supplying composite design services and materials to the marine industry and is now expanding into new industries that also wish to benefit from the use of composites. The HyperWorks suite and, in particular, its pre- and post-processors, solvers and optimization technologies are now being leveraged to deliver more efficient composite solutions to High Modulus’ automotive, energy, architectural and general industrial clients in significantly reduced timescales.

“Altair HyperWorks enables us to be more flexible, by allowing us to tailor our services to match our clients’ requirements at every stage of their project cycle. The clean-up tools are invaluable at the initial concept evaluation stage where we often have to work fast, with incomplete or untidy geometry,” continued Mr Anderson. “HyperWorks’ reliable solvers and the ability to model complex composite lay-ups and tailor material properties to match our own test data are invaluable in detailed design. We have significantly improved our productivity through the efficient use of the very powerful optimization tools for composite structures. They help us determine patch size and ply orientation and even drive the whole manufacturing process.”

As a global organization, High Modulus also demands local support for its regional design teams to keep them informed of product updates and to ensure they are well trained and being as productive as possible.

“Working with the local representatives of Altair gives us the responsiveness and service quality of a small local company and the reliability and product quality one expects from a large multinational,” Mr. Anderson emphasised.

“It is satisfying to see more and more composite specialists adopting the HyperWorks enterprise suite as their virtual design tool of choice,” said Maurice Linscott, regional director, Altair UK operations. “Composite materials represent new opportunities for engineers, but they also bring with them new complexities and challenges within the design process. Designing lightweight products with optimum material usage is vital across many industry sectors, and HyperWorks is empowering manufacturers and consultants to deliver truly innovative solutions in reduced timescales and at reduced overall cost.”

Atkins Achieves Significant Increases in Productivity Leveraging HyperWorks Simulation Platform

TROY, Mich – Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of technology and services that empowers client innovation and decision-making, announced today, that international engineering and design consultancy Atkins has selected HyperWorks’ pre-and post-processing solutions, HyperMesh and HyperView as standard tools for future design projects. The decision follows measured business benefits from the suite including productivity and efficiency gains, the flexible business model and a common platform for supporting Atkins’ multi-solver environment.

“The majority of cost incurred when performing finite element (FE) analysis is during the initial model-generation phase, so reducing the amount of time spent at this stage is extremely valuable to us and our clients,” said Jon Gittoes, FE team leader at Atkins. “Basically it comes down to minimising the time it takes to get from initial geometry to a working model, and that’s what HyperMesh does so well. HyperMesh has excellent geometry idealization, which significantly improves our design efficiency and has a large impact on the overall project timescales.”

As a leader in engineering and design consultation to the aerospace market, Atkins is an approved supplier to leading international aerospace OEMs. Atkins’ recent project work includes aircraft heavy landing and bird-strike analysis for Airbus, Rolls-Royce gas turbines development and even the 1000mph BLOODHOUND Supersonic Car project. The efficiencies of the HyperWorks suite have played an important part in helping Atkins deliver successful projects to its global client base.

“The continuing trend towards composite materials and non-linear analysis is significantly increasing the complexity of analysis pre- and post-processing. Using a common tool to build models for a variety of analysis codes allows our engineers to work on a wide variety of projects,” Mr Gittoes added. “We are using HyperWorks to investigate problems as varied as the design of turbomachinery transmission test rigs, assessing aircraft heavy landings and the concept design of the BLOODHOUND SSC. HyperWorks has the features that we need to develop and manage large models, which is particularly important for our non-linear impact work.”

“Altair’s customer support team have also helped us integrate HyperWorks into our existing design processes and quickly train our engineers,” Mr Gittoes noted. “The Altair support team regularly visits and helps solve any of our technical issues. The most important advantage HyperWorks has given us is the flexibility to meet our clients’ needs. Whether that’s in terms of their timescales or in using the most appropriate solver code, it’s really about being able to deliver the results our clients need, when they need them.”

In addition to HyperMesh and HyperView, Atkins has successfully deployed HyperWorks’ optimization solution, OptiStruct, in the BLOODHOUND SSC project with excellent results. The technology is now being assessed broadly across Atkins’ aerospace projects to minimize material usage and component weight.

“It is gratifying to see Atkins realizing all the business benefits working with Altair and the HyperWorks simulation suite offers,” said Maurice Linscott, regional director, Altair UK operations. “With increasing pressure on consultancies to deliver projects on shorter timescales coupled with the drive for weight reductions and materials savings across the aerospace industry, it is vital that our clients are able to concentrate their efforts on activities that add value to their customers. Model generation is a vital, but functional, step in designing innovative products; HyperWorks is enabling our clients to significantly reduce this stage and to focus on delivering innovation throughout their design process.”

Ford Motor Company Continues to Engineer Safer Vehicles Using the HyperWorks Simulation Suite and Its Integrated Solver Solution - RADIOSS

Global automotive manufacturer leverages the HyperWorks' solver solution, RADIOSS, and achieves outstanding occupant safety performance.

LEAMINGTON SPA, England - Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading provider of technology and services that empowers client innovation and decision-making, announced today, that global automotive organisation, Ford Motor Company, has continued to improve vehicle safety performance through the use of the HyperWorks simulation suite and the power of its solver solution, RADIOSS. Combining Ford's engineering experience with the capabilities of HyperWorks has resulted in their new Fiesta range becoming a class leader for both occupant and pedestrian safety.

As an experienced user of the HyperWorks suite, Ford have always found the RADIOSS solver to be extremely robust and reliable, especially the explicit crash simulation involved in vehicle safety assessment. RADIOSS is used extensively throughout Ford's vehicle development process and was the obvious solver of choice when developing the new Fiesta model, which launched in Europe during 2008. The highly scalable and repeatable nature of the solver, combined with Ford UK's state of the art engineering methods and development processes, successfully achieved an outstanding five star crash performance when rated by EuroNCAP.

"I am pleased to see Ford Motor Company taking advantage of HyperWorks' solver solutions. By making RADIOSS an integral part of their engineering design process has helped to ensure that all Ford vehicles are extremely safe for both vehicle occupants and pedestrians," said Maurice Linscott, regional director, Altair UK. "The solver's repeatability, scalability, accuracy and robustness make it the analysis tool of choice for many of the worlds leading OEMs and suppliers across a wide spectrum of domains and industries. We are seeing increasing numbers of companies adopting HyperWorks technology due to its analysis power, ease of use and our cost effective licensing system."

PROTOMED SA Chooses HyperWorks to Simulate Implantable Medical Devices

CAE suite and use of finite element analysis streamline development processes in the development of medical devices.

Marseille, France – Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services that empower client innovation and decision-making, and PROTOMED SA announced today that PROTOMED SA has chosen Altair Engineering’s computer-aided engineering (CAE) software suite, HyperWorks, to enhance its numerical simulation capabilities. PROTOMED SA continues to expand its medical device R&D services by choosing Altair as its official computational software partner. The products of the software suite, especially its RADIOSS solver for implicit analysis tasks will be used within service projects of PROTOMED and to develop new and innovative implantable medical devices. PROTOMED engineers use CAE to predict physical responses of biological systems to known load conditions and will use HyperWorks to model medical devices for various applications, ranging from coronary stents to orthopedics implant.

“We were looking for a high-performance finite element analysis tool to assess mechanical resistance limits in relation to our European device development and test services activities,” said Frédéric Mouret, CEO and founder of PROTOMED. “HyperWorks is an essential component of our fatigue simulation efforts, computational fluid mechanics and trauma simulation capabilities. It will reinforce our technical resources and our ability to anticipate the behavior of new implants in their simulated biological environment.”

Global healthcare is a dynamic and fast-growing industry. Designers and manufacturers of medical devices are constantly challenged to improve product performance, deliver quality and reliability and meet regulatory standards. CAE tools are increasingly used in the biomed industry to meet design and quality challenges and are gaining acceptance in validation processes.

“Altair Engineering is happy to work with PROTOMED in its use of simulation for development of medical devices”, said Joanne Zuzelski, director of business development at Altair Engineering. “PROTOMED’s leadership in the advanced application of simulation technologies such as RADIOSS, provides valuable, reliable solutions for the medical device market.”

HyperWorks delivers complex models and procedures for biomedical applications with high-fidelity simulation. From its capability to quickly and easily model detailed geometry to the simulation of complex physical and biological processes, HyperWorks is an enterprise simulation solution for the medical device industry. HyperWorks includes best-in-class modeling, analysis, visualization and data management solutions for linear, nonlinear, structural, optimization, fluid-structure interaction and multi-body dynamics applications.

Magnaghi Aeronautica S.p.A. chooses HyperWorks to Streamline Development of Aircraft Landing Gear Systems

Altair’s open architecture CAE Suite offers Italian aerospace supplier more flexibility and increased solid meshing efficiency.

TROY, Mich. – Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of technology and services that empowers client innovation and decision-making, announced today that Italy-based aerospace supplier, Magnaghi Aeronautica S.p.A. (www.magnaghiaeronautica.it), has chosen the HyperWorks simulation platform to develop and optimize their landing gear systems. The company designs, develops, and manufactures landing gears, hydraulic components, and fuel tanks for the aircraft industry.

“When we first saw HyperWorks and especially HyperMesh during a presentation in Naples last year, we were immediately impressed with its capabilities and flexibility,” said Costantino Russo, Chief Deputy within the technical department of Magnaghi Aeronautica S.p.A. ”We expect remarkable time savings through faster and more automated development processes, and I think that OptiStruct will help us to further reduce both weight and shapes of our components. Particularly, I like the flexibility of the product family, its open architecture and its automated meshing capabilities.”

Magnaghi Aeronautica will initially deploy HyperMesh, the suite’s finite element pre-processor, and OptiStruct structural optimization technology. Following the initial deployment and training phase, Magnaghi Aeronautica plans to leverage Altair’s unit-based software licensing model to explore the suite’s twenty-five plus software titles including its finite element solvers and the multi-body dynamics solutions.

“We are very pleased with Magnaghi Aeronautica’s decision to chose HyperWorks,” said Cosimo Panetta, regional managing director, Altair Engineering Italy. “I see significant time-saving opportunities for the company’s entire engineering staff through HyperWorks’ advanced morphing capabilities and the ability to automate updates to existing meshes to new design geometries. The adoption of OptiStruct for structural optimization is consistent with a general industry trend that is focused on weight savings – especially in the aerospace industry. We are looking forward to and appreciate the opportunity to work with the engineers of Magnaghi Aeronautica to positively impact their products and business.”