Altair Engineering

Altair’s HyperWorks suite offers German-based leading manufacturer of braking systems flexible and cost efficient access to CAE tools - Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services that empower client innovation and decision-making, announced today that Knorr-Bremse, a leading German manufacturer of braking systems for rail and commercial vehicles, has widened its use of Altair’s HyperWorks suite of computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools. As a long-term customer, the company has recognized the benefits of HyperWorks and recently acquired additional HyperWorks license units to broaden its software use from HyperMesh and HyperView to also include RADIOSS, OptiStruct, and other tools.

Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services, today announced the release of HyperWorks 11.0, the latest version of the engineering industry’s most popular computer-aided engineering (CAE) software suite. Highlights of HyperWorks 11.0 include the addition of two new software products to the HyperWorks suite; AcuSolve and solidThinking. It also offers a greatly extended breadth of solver solutions in RADIOSS, allowing engineers to efficiently address today’s complex design challenges.

Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation and advanced computing software solutions, announced today that PBS Professional, Altair's EAL3+ security certified commercial-grade high-performance computing (HPC) workload management solution, is celebrating its 20th anniversary on June 17. During the month of June, the company also will exhibit at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany June 19-23, and launch its PBS Professional version 11.1 update.

Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Montréal-based Bombardier Aerospace under which the aircraft manufacturer will expand its use of the HyperWorks suite of computer-aided engineering tools as a strategic solution for computer modeling of airframes and conducting finite-element analysis.

Altair’s HyperWorks CAE technology assists the development of a light weight and fuel efficient city car

Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading 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.

Acquisition of SimLab technology and expertise increases powertrain depth and broadens Altair’s software portfolio

The new interface offers customers highly automated, seamless pre-processing, solving and post-processing using HyperWorks and SAMCEF

Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services that empower client innovation and decision-making, announced today that the German development department of the TADANO FAUN Group has selected the HyperWorks suite of computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools to develop and optimize the design of its cranes.

Altair Engineering, Inc., reported today that licenses of PBS Professional scheduling-optimization software are being shipped by SGI with SGI Altix UV, the world’s fastest, most scalable supercomputer. PBS Professional makes it easy for SGI Altix UV users to create intelligent policies to manage their most complex workloads, optimizing use of the system’s massive technical computing power.

Altair Engineering, Inc., announced today that the UK based product development consultancy, Vectayn, has standardised much of its finite element analysis (FEA) activities on the HyperWorks suite of virtual simulation tools. Vectayn will use HyperWorks and especially HyperMesh, the advanced FEA meshing solution of the software suite, as the default model creation tool for all new automotive, aerospace, and military projects. As long time users of HyperWorks, this decision is driven by the need to improve design development productivity and increase flexibility whilst minimising software costs.

Altair announced the addition to its HyperWorks Partner Alliance (HWPA) of STREAM, the thermal fluid analysis system by Software Cradle. HyperWorks users can now download the latest version of STREAM from the HWPA website at www.hyperworksalliance.com and use STREAM at little or no incremental cost through their existing HyperWorks software license system. To date, over 350 companies worldwide have joined the HyperWorks Partner Alliance.

Altair Engineering, Inc., annouces that aircraft business and first class seating manufacturer, Contour Premium Aircraft Seating has successfully applied the HyperWorks enterprise simulation suite to deliver superior passenger comfort solutions. Contour takes full advantage of the breadth of solutions offered through HyperWorks CAE suite including: HyperMesh and HyperView for finite element pre and post-processing, OptiStruct for structural optimization, and MotionView and MotionSolve for multi-body dynamics simulation. HyperWorks has helped enable the company to create truly innovative, lightweight seating solutions for their global aircraft carrier customers allowing them to stay ahead of their competitors in a highly competitive market.

PBS Works,announces the availability of PBS Works™ 10.4, the company’s suite of on-demand computing technologies. PBS Works 10.4 provides customers new capabilities to streamline workload management, allowing easy creation of intelligent policies for managing distributed, mixed-vendor computing assets, including applications, as a single unified system.

Altair Engineering, Inc., announced that Martin Jones has joined its Altair ProductDesign (PD) consultancy division to lead the full development of an innovative new urban electric vehicle (EV).

Altair Engineering Inc., a leading global provider of Troy, Mich. – May 10th, 2010 – Altair Engineering Inc., a leading global 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. 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.

Altair Engineering, Inc., announced that it will host this year’s European HyperWorks Technology Conference from October 27nd to 29th, 2010 in Versailles, France. The conference and its accompanying events will show how today’s engineering challenges can be handled efficiently while offering an opportunity to discuss new approaches to maximize the benefits of enterprise simulation tools. The event is a unique opportunity to learn about the latest trends in simulation and optimization technology.

In a breakthrough that, for advanced manufacturing, ranks with the efficiencies gained by shifting from drafting tables to CAD stations, Altair Engineering has succeeded in compressing the time required to mesh, assemble and simulate a full- vehicle crash finite-element model – directly from OEM native CAD data – to just 24 hours. This milestone achievement represents a two-to-four-week reduction in turn-around time that is typically required for this type of analysis.

Altair 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.

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