Altair Engineering

Altair Engineering Ltd announced today that BASE, a leading engineering service provider, has joined the Altair Channel Partner Program to resell HyperWorks within Northern Ireland & the Republic of Ireland.

Altair Engineering, Inc. announced today that ThyssenKrupp Tallent Ltd has adopted the HyperWorks CAE platform as an enterprise simulation solution for design, optimization and virtual manufacturing of their automotive chassis components. The flexibility of HyperWorks has proved instrumental in the design of chassis components, subframes and suspension arms in which optimization has been used throughout to improve component performance while maximizing efficient material utilization.

Altair Engineering, Inc announced today that ThyssenKrupp Tallent Ltd has adopted the HyperWorks CAE platform as an enterprise simulation solution for design, optimization and virtual manufacturing of their automotive chassis components. The flexibility of HyperWorks has proved instrumental in the design of chassis components, subframes and suspension arms in which optimization has been used throughout to improve component performance while maximizing efficient material utilization. ThyssenKrupp Tallent’s HyperWorks decision has also allowed them to take full advantage of Altair’s HyperWorks Enabled Partner Program.

Altair Engineering announced today it will participate at this year’s Aircraft Interiors Expo from March 31st until April 2nd. The Aircraft Interiors Expo is the trade show during where the latest concepts and solutions for the design of aircraft interiors, from seats to in-flight entertainment solutions are presented. The major focus of the event will be on industry relevant topics such as structural and weight optimization, interior place efficiency and the interior redesign of exiting aircrafts.

Altair Engineering, Inc. announced today that the French-based provider of engineered sealing and structural solutions for the automotive industry, L&L Products Europe SAS, has once again expanded their use of HyperWorks. The HyperWorks suite is used for acoustic analysis and structural part optimization with a strong focus on crash impact.

Altair today unveiled Personal PBS, a free turnkey application that leverages multi-core CPU technology to easily transform any desktop computer into a miniature compute farm or cluster system. For a nominal fee, Personal PBS also provides an easy upgrade path that enables customers to submit jobs from their personal desktop to backend server systems running PBS Professional®. Altair expects this new product to appeal to the open-source community, academia, small and medium-size businesses, and corporate clients who want to maximize local desktop performance.

Altair announced today the addition of the MADYMO suite from TASS-safe to its HyperWorks Enabled Community (HWEC). This will bring the total applications available under the HyperWorks platform to 49, including 21 third-party software applications. HyperWorks customers will be able to download MADYMO Release 7.0, the latest version of the software along with all other available modules, at zero incremental cost using their existing HyperWorks license system at www.hyperworkscommunity.com.

Altair Engineering, Inc. announced today that the UK Gas Turbine Division of Assystem, a leading engineering services and consultancy provider, has selected Altair HyperWorks to be included in future engineering service projects. Assystem will use HyperWorks and especially HyperMesh, the advanced finite element analysis (FEA) meshing solution of the product suite, to compliment existing analysis software in order to support service and consultancy projects within the gas turbine industry. Since the recent acquisition of HyperMesh, Assystem has already realised benefits including substantial improvements in mesh generation leading to better results for their customers.

Altair announces the addition of the DSHplus suite from FLUIDON a leader in simulation of fluid power systems to its HyperWorks Enabled Community (HWEC), bringing the total applications available under the HyperWorks platform to 46, including 18 third-party software solutions. HyperWorks customers can now download the latest version (V3.6) of DSHplus View and Solve, along with all other available applications, at zero incremental cost using their existing HyperWorks software license system.

Altair announced today a new Web site (www.altair.com/benchmarks) that allows Altair hardware partners and RADIOSS users to download and run four separate typical RADIOSS models, and then post the results on the Web site, making them available for customers to view.

Altair Engineering, Inc today announced that the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has entrusted workload management of its huge new Pleiades cluster to PBS Professional software from its GridWorks business unit.

Altair Engineering, Inc. today announced record attendance numbers for the 2008 European HTC in Strasbourg. The 2nd European HyperWorks Technology Conference took place from September 30th until October 1st in Strasbourg, France. More than 400 engineers, managers, and simulation experts came to Strasbourg to inform themselves about the latest news and trends in enterprise simulation and to exchange experiences with other HyperWorks users.

Altair announced today the addition of leading industrial design/styling software solidThinking to its HyperWorks Enabled Community, bringing the total applications available under the HyperWorks platform to 44, including 16 third-party software applications. HyperWorks customers can now download solidThinking 7.6, the latest version of the software launched recently for Windows and Mac users worldwide, along with all other available applications, at zero incremental cost using their existing HyperWorks software license system at www.hyperworkscommunity.com.

Altair Engineering announced today that it has launched, in cooperation with Cosin Consulting, a next generation tire interface for MotionSolve. The new interface called CTI (Cosin Tire Interface) simplifies the integration of different tire and road models.

Altair Engineering announced today that Lumeneo, a French developer and manufacturer of electrical cars will exhibit their new vehicle model at the EHTC in Strasbourg from September 29th (opening reception) until October 1st.

Altair Engineering announced today that Bottero has selected Altair HyperWorks as their preferred computer-aided engineering suite for the optimization and verification of structural components used in their production lines. Bottero’s short-term goals include the introduction of an innovative product line and the development of advanced forming-machine solutions. The company chose HyperWorks because it offers a complete solution for the simulation and optimization of mechanical components.

Leading industrial design/styling software company solidThinking is launching its latest version for Windows and Mac users worldwide.

Altair Engineering, Inc. today announced that Prima Industrie, an Italian developer, manufacturer and provider of high-power laser systems for cutting, welding and drilling three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) parts, will implement the HyperWorks computer-aided engineering (CAE) software platform into its design development process. The HyperWorks suite and OptiStruct, the leading design synthesis optimization technology, will be used to optimize existing cutting machines and to develop new 2D machines in the future.

CSI’s recently expanded Automotive Department will use the HyperWorks computer-aided engineering (CAE) technology suite to increase its focus on virtual and performance engineering. The company plans to improve its entire development cycle by creating a close relationship between simulation and physical testing.

Altair Engineering, Inc announced that Cambric Corporation, a global provider of engineering services, is now using HyperWorks as its primary computer-aided engineering solution to serve its customers.