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When designing an electric motor, constraints from different physics must be fulfilled. Electric motor design requires multi-physics analysis: Altair® SimLab® provides a single user experience for all these different physics.

Inside SimLab, Altair® Flux® can be invoked to run the electromagnetic

introduction to Altair EDEM and showcase how the tool can be used to design, test (performance testing), and improve the efficiency of agricultural machinery thus leading to shorter design cycles, less prototyping, and improved machine performance.

Discrete Element Modelling (DEM) involves the simulation of the motion of a group of particles interacting through contacts under an external stimulus. In simple terms, the core idea of the method is to integrate the equation of motion describing ...

In this webinar you'll hear from industry expert, Ioannis Vazaios, Senior Geotechnical Engineer at Ove Arup & Partners and receive an overview of how Altair's Geomechanics Director and Irazu by Geomechanica Inc. (Altair APA) can help you analyze c...

Industry 4.0 is bringing automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices, using modern smart technology via the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). IIoT technology is making agricultural and mining equipment, trucks, and other h...

Mass timber construction is the future of buildings – after all, there aren't many construction technologies that trap more carbon dioxide than they generate!  But although it is not new technology there are still a number of challenges in the des...

In this session, we showcase the build and assembly of a full system model. Driven by Parts, Subsystems, and Connectors, the Altair HyperWorks™ model build and assembly workflow facilitates representation, revision, and configuration management fo...

Exploring the challenges and opportunities of the circular economy. Sustainability is driving new and innovative business practices across the globe as companies find ways to harmonize CO2 emission reduction with economic goals. With circular prod...

By combining computationally efficient reduced-order models and detailed CAE analysis with process automation of repetitive and tedious tasks, Altair provides workflows for early system models, mixed-fidelity simulations, and multiphysics validati...

Heavy equipment manufacturers want to design products that are durable and perform at their peak under a variety of conditions. To accomplish this, Altair provides an integrated multi-disciplinary simulation environment to virtually test and optim...

An Introductory webinar to Irazu by Geomechanica, available through the Altair Partner Alliance.

Irazu is a versatile 2D/3D finite-discrete element software package for the analysis of large deformations, fracturing, and stability in rock masses.

The integration of various multiphysics solvers

Heavy mobile machines consist mostly of production equipment working almost twenty hours a day, year on year, in diverse harsh environments, undergoing extreme loads and overloads. Especially diggers and loaders such as hydraulic excavators, wheel...

Industry 4.0 has led companies to investigate the automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial
practices using modern smart technologies via Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) making agricultural
and mining equipment, trucks, and other heavy industrial assets smarter via effective conn

Irazu software brochure and fact sheet, including a comprehensive list of features

Irazu is a versatile 2D/3D finite-discrete element software package for the analysis of large deformations, fracturing, and stability in rock masses.

The integration of various multiphysics solvers and advanced

Top use cases for Irazu by Geomechanica.

Irazu is a versatile 2D/3D finite-discrete element software package for the analysis of large deformations, fracturing, and stability in rock masses.

The integration of various multiphysics solvers and advanced features into a single software package en

Simulation-driven design changed heavy equipment product development forever, enabling engineers to reduce design iterations and prototype testing. Increasing scientific computing power expanded the opportunity to apply analysis, making large desi...

Information silos present a major challenge to Heavy Equipment OEMs. Poor integration of simulation models across the product life cycle, limited reuse of models between programs, and a variation of modeling maturity across various engineering dis...

An Introductory webinar to PM-FlexTire™ by Pratt Miller, available through the Altair Partner Alliance.
PM-FlexTire™ is an FE-based tire model that is integrated with the Altair EDEM™ soft-soil simulation platform and significantly expands what is possible in virtual development of soft-soil mobili

Several OEMs currently face the challenge of information silos due to poor integration of models across the product life cycle. Furthermore, there is limited reuse of models between programs and the variation of modeling maturity across various En...

The chassis of a the RAVO 5 iSeries street sweeper has been a proven design that has remained relatively unchanged since the mid-60’s. However, due to increasing weight and size requirements, as well as possible changes to the driving mechanism, a...

The production of agricultural commodities is a multi-billion dollar industry in Canada representing nearly 7% of the national GDP. While the food production system is complex and specific to each type of product grown, challenges in processing, h...

This presentation shows how advanced simulation technology can provide a cost effective way to minimizing the risk breaching noise regulations. Often the issue is only found out in a prototype testing scenario, bench test results can give misleadi...

This presentation introduces Altair and its vision which is continuously evolving from simulation to high performance computing, cloud, and more recently integrated with artificial intelligence.
It presents Altair’s innovative development process and explain how it can help the Heavy Equipment i

For several years now, co-simulation between Multibody Dynamics (MBD) codes like MotionSolve and Discrete Element Method (DEM) software like EDEM has been used for many applications such as vehicles and material transportation. One missing link ha...

Zoomlion Heavy Industry have been developing a simulation model of a threshing system of a combine harvester using the Discrete Element Method (DEM). Optimization of the performance parameters like grain recovery, grain damage and grain loss with ...

Top use cases for PM-FlexTire™, a finite element-based tire model that is integrated with the Altair EDEM™ soft-soil simulation platform and significantly expands what is possible in virtual development of soft-soil mobility.

CNH Industrial paves the way for the evolution of numerical simulations in the era of autonomous driving testing in agriculture.

Speaker: Gennaro Monacelli, Global Senior Director, CNH Industrial

Duration: 20 minutes

Dr. Fatma Kocer VP, Engineering Data Science at Altair showcases the impact of AI in development environments. In particular on how CAE tools will evolve and Design Exploration is taken to the next level.

Anthony Mc Loughlin VP Sales Data Analytics, EMEA presents how to empower engineering to make data & AI work.

Data science and AI are game-changing technologies for engineering and manufacturing companies. To embrace the need of today and the future for self-service data science and analytics in manufacturing, we need more data engineers to make this all possible.


At Altair, we envision a future whe

Welded assemblies are widely used across industrial sectors. The design processes in rail, construction, marine, heavy machinery, pressure vessel construction, and many other industries rely heavily on regulations, codes, and norms such as FKM, DVS-1612, and Eurocode-3.

This guide describes the

Create detailed hydraulic circuits & actuation systems as part of your multi-disciplinary system simulations, especially for heavy machinery & agricultural equipment, in combination with multi-body systems (Altair MotionSolve®) and granular materi...

Most manufacturers must handle large numbers of warranty claims related to a variety of products and components. The volume of claims can easily run to millions per year for consumer goods manufacturers. Patterns within claims data may indicate em...

Many industries and applications involve bulk and granular materials interacting with machines and fluids. The use of Multiphysics and Altair EDEM software can play a major role when trying to understand, predict and optimize bulk material handling equipment and processes.

This presentation

The production of hot mix asphalt (HMA) involves drying and heating aggregates and mixing and coating the aggregates with liquid asphalt bitumen. This process presents many simulation challenges.  As an equipment manufacturer Astec uses simulation...

This video produced in collaboration with Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group (XCMG) shows how EDEM software can be used to simulate grader applications such as flattening, ditching and scraping. Ground particles can be colored by velocity, layers...

Watch examples of applications of EDEM in the design of dump trucks, excavators, loaders, grab buckets, and more.

EDEM software, powered by the Discrete Element Method (DEM), accurately simulates the behavior of rocks, soils, ores and gravel, etc. It provides engineers with crucial insight

EDEM can be used to aid the design process of dump truck bodies. Realistic material modeling allows users to test dump truck performance in different operating conditions by analyzing loading/unloading patterns or pressure distributions.

EDEM can be used to optimize the design of excavator buckets - providing key insight into equipment performance. Different designs can be compared for handling a range of materials such as rocks, gravels or more cohesive materials. Key information...

In this video EDEM is coupled with MotionSolve to better understand and predict the performance of a grab bucket handling different materials. Critical information on how the equipment responds when interacting with the bulk material can be obtain...