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This webinar focuses on the design of electric motors and will show how multiphysics simulation and optimization allow to innovate and reduce costs, while considering multiple design constraints. Spin Applicazioni Magnetiche, a company creating in...

The path towards electrification requires significant investment, changes to technologies, development processes and even organizational structures. This introductory webinar will reveal Altair's simulation- and data-driven design tools to acceler...

Lars Fredriksson introduces Altair development support strategies for e-mobility and provides examples to showcase how these strategies help companies develop e-powertrain systems with an increased level of innovation in reduced time.

Simple Energy has partnered with Altair Engineering since 2020 to provide best-in-class solutions for Electric Vehicle development. FEA simulation reduces the development cost, prototyping time, and iteration, we can actually develop safer parts b...

Looking for a pioneering solution for complex design optimization challenges, ZF — a global technology company supplying systems for passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and industrial technology — partnered with Altair to implement a data-driven development and optimization strategy for e-motors.

Electrification is everywhere! It brings energy efficiency into systems and also helps add new smart functionalities to products. The electric motor is a key element of such systems, converting electricity into mechanical power. It is multiphysics...

Future e-motors must be developed to fulfil more and higher requirements originating from internal, legal and customer sources. Failure to fulfill design targets will negatively affect the product competitiveness in the market.

This presentation is an overview of Rizel Automotive’s R&D journey towards developing an efficient and cost-effective Motor Platform with optimum characteristics for the automotive EV Space using Altair’s tools to solve electromagnetic, structural...

To design today’s tightly packaged electronic systems it is essential to create a thermal analysis model of the PCB within its enclosure. Learn how Altair SimLab provides robust and repeatable workflows for fast, accurate, and consistent analysis,...

Today’s product development is very tough in terms of environmental, technological, and business requirements. To fulfill these tasks an efficient and reliable virtual development process is indispensable. In this context reliable CAE results are ...

An intuitive and robust CFD workflow is available in Altair® SimLab® - a process-oriented, feature-based finite element analysis software that allows you to quickly and accurately simulate the engineering behavior of complex assemblies. For fluid ...

Evolving your product is becoming more and more complex. The market demands more features and better quality while demanding lower costs. SmartWorks brings a set of tools to help you collect data from your connected products, helps you build web a...

We’re living in the midst of a transportation revolution. As OEMs, suppliers, and emerging manufacturers invest billions on electrification, autonomous technologies, and novel modes of product- and service-based mobility, it has sparked a reimagin...

The pace of evolution in application requirements feeds the need to bring increasingly complex products to market quickly, efficiently, and effectively. Innovators in all industries are challenged to identify and leverage synergies between hardwar...

No one can predict the future, but that doesn’t mean we can’t prepare for it. Now, as we barrel into 2022 and look forward to a post-pandemic world, it’s clear that the changes of 2020 and 2021 have changed us. We might be nostalgic for “normal ti...

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...

ZF develops a wide variety of e-motors and e-drives for a broad spectrum of automotive customers. To optimally incorporate development and production costs from the outset, their designers must find solutions to maximize shared parts within the given requirements for the motors.

ZF, in collaborat

Improving perceived quality and passenger comfort by minimizing buzz, squeak, and rattle (BSR) and eliminating unwanted noises in a car is a common challenge in vehicle development, especially as these issues are often detected late in the develop...

From industrial machinery to EVs, power tools to spacecraft, vibration and acoustic characteristics play a crucial role in the design process. This webinar will demonstrate how Altair OptiStruct can analyse and optimise vibration and acoustic beha...

Altair has partnered with Ziegler-Instruments to enhance its Squeak and Rattle Director (SnRD), making it the most advanced and comprehensive solution on the market to predict and eradicate squeak and rattle phenomena in vehicles, aircraft and oth...

Altair has collaborated with Startup India, Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), Confederation of Indian Industry - CII, and IIT Madras Incubation Cell for Altair Start-up Challenge 2021 - For EVs. This is an initiative to create aware...

A recording of the battery development panel discussion as part of the ATCx Electric Powertrain virtual event in March 2021. The panel features insight from Dr. Anna Wise, Head of Battery Technology at Innovate UK; Martin Kemp, Regional Manager at...

A recording of the electric motor development panel discussion as part of the ATCx Electric Powertrain virtual event in March 2021. The panel features insight from Cleef Thackwell, Lead Motor Design Engineer at Jaguar Land Rover; Dr. Lars Fredriks...

Sergi Riba, Design Engineer at Safran Ventilation Systems, with a brief introduction by Vincent Leconte, Senior Director of Global Business Development - EM Solution at Altair. Together they discuss the development of electric machines for the aer...

Martin Kemp, Regional Manager at Altair, Dr. Denis Cumming, a Senior Lecturer at The University of Sheffield, John Milios, CEO at Sendyne, Dr. Gregory Offer, Reader at Imperial College London and finally Professor Jun Xu, Director of Vehicle Energ...

Dr. Royston Jones, CTO and Dr. Anthony Hahnel, Technical Director, give their keynote presentation during the ATCx Driving Innovation in Electric Powertrain 2021.

Dr. Lars Fredriksson, VP - Simulation Driven Innovation at Altair, presents the multi-physics design of e-motors with a particular focus on optimising performance including efforts to maximize torque and power under defined driving conditions whil...

Dr. Chris Harley, Business Development Manager
Vertical Aerospace gives his keynote presentation during the ATCx Driving Innovation in Electric Powertrain 2021.

Chris works with the team at Vertical Advanced Engineering, part of the Vertical Aerospace Group, he is looking to help the automotive,

In his presentation, Sebastian Wachter of Porsche takes us through an exciting project where topology optimisation technologies were combined with 3D printing to create a highly innovative engine-gearbox housing that is 10% lighter than the existing component and twice as stiff.

Andrew Lawton, Principal Research Engineer at Smart Manufacturing Technology. Andrew has worked at SMT for almost 10 years with a focus on the dynamic analysis of drivetrains, including the effect of excitation forces from the electric machine as well as the gears.

Andrew’s presentation will cove

Dr. Richard Boyd, Technical Specialist at Altair take us through his presentation, Simulation Technology Facilitating Battery Pack Range Optimization.

Richard will take the battery module presented in Part 2 and create a full 3D model of the module - the duty cycle, event and optimization is repe

Andrew Dyer, Senior Tech Specialist at Altair in the US, Gabriele Piombo, EngD Partner with Altair at the University of Warwick, and finally Prof. James Marco, Professor of Systems Modelling and Simulation at the University of Warwick, present - R...

Richard Lively, Director of Engineering - Chassis and Powertrain at Lotus gives his keynote presentation during the ATCx Driving Innovation in Electric Powertrain 2021.



Richard has 25 years industry experience developing product from concept to production launch in multiple sectors, along wi

Bryan Sandoz, Director of Mechanical Engineering at Terrafugia gives his keynote presentation during the ATCx Driving Innovation in Electric Powertrain 2021.

James Eves, Team Manager at Altair, Jonathan Stevens, Senior Development Engineer at Equipmake and Andy Jones, Innovation Program Manager at HiETA Technologies, discuss AMPERE, a joint project to produce an extremely lightweight, efficient but low...

High accuracy sensors and encoders are integral components of an e-motor drive, greatly impacting the quality and efficiency on the system. A purpose-driven simulation approach is needed to account for all the physical interdependencies within the...

As a market leader in small-scale passenger transportation, the Tribus Group develops products for wheelchair-accessible passenger transportation ranging from foldable, ergonomic seats and easy-to-install wheelchair lifts to electric minibuses and...

Predesign Methodologies In Motor Development Projects

Purpose Driven Electric Motor Modeling for Multi-physics System Simulation

Simulation-Driven Design of Synchronous Motors