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An introductory webinar to Weight Data Tool by TGM Lightweight Solutions GmbH, available through the Altair Partner Alliance.
Weight Data Tool (WDT) gives users the power to evaluate vehicle mass properties via automatic reports, and lets users track data history, origin, and maturity for all those

Altair Enlighten Award winners share their journey of innovation to develop award-winning technology solutions that have significantly advanced lightweighting and sustainability for vehicles.

· How does building lighter vehicles impact the challenge of meeting emission targets?
· What is the val

3 ENLIGHTEN AWARD WINNERS share their journey of innovation to develop award-winning technology solutions that have significantly advanced lightweighting for vehicles

o How does building lighter vehicles impact the challenge of meeting emission targets?
o What is the value of lightweighting for

A product demonstration of the Weight Data Tool by TGM Lightweight Solutions GmbH.

Presentation introducing a few of the top use cases for the vehicle lightweighting software, Weight Data Tool.

Meet our Altair Enlighten Award 2021 winners as they share their success stories and thoughts on the future of lightweighting and sustainability in automotive.

The Altair Enlighten Award is back - nominations now open for this year.

Urwahn Engineering GmbH is a startup in the biking sector. While bikes must meet many requirements to pass globally recognized test and load case scenarios according to DIN ISO 4210 safety standards, they must also be light to reduce raw material ...

Established in the early 1990s and headquartered in Gemlik, Borçelik is the highest quality galvanized steel producer, with the largest production capacity in Turkey. They are engaged in manufacturing hot dip galvanized steel, cold-rolled steel a...

Sika is a specialty chemicals company, and a leader in developing and producing systems and products for bonding, sealing, damping, reinforcing, and protecting in the building sector and automotive industry. Offering a wide range of BIW noise redu...

For more than 60 years, L&L Products have been providing unique solutions to the
automotive industry. L&L Products Composite Body Solutions (CBS™) structural reinforcement technology is commonly used to enhance overall body-in-white (BIW) stiffness, other benefits include load path management, sec

Create, modify, and de-feature solid models using Inspire's modeling tools. Leverage the speed and accuracy of SimSolid to evaluate multiple variants.

Investigate linear static and normal modes analysis on a model and visualize displacement, factor of safety, percent of yield, tension and compression, von Mises stress, and major principal stress.

Design for additive manufacturing with overhang shape controls to help reduce overhangs to create more self-supporting structures.

Easily generate dynamic motion of complex mechanisms, automatically identifying contacts, joints, springs, and dampers.

General discourse as it pertains to sustainability is often centered around topics such as global warming or carbon footprint. However, product design and lifecycle considerations can and should be looked at as key facilitators of sustainability. ...

The goal for any design, structural and manufacturing simulation is to predict and fix defects early in the product development. This panel will discuss how design and simulation tools are helping engineers to be efficient. Experts will share thei...

AAM has been providing mechanical drivelines to automotive customers for more than 25 years. As the automobile transitions to electrification, so too must the driveline. AAM has developed a suite of innovative, lightweight, compact and cost-optimi...

With lightweighting at the forefront of the sustainability discussion, Altair HyperWorks has introduced a targeted environment to rapidly create models for topology optimization. The complete HyperWorks Design Space environment includes an automot...

Altair® Inspire™ democratizes modeling and simulation making it accessible to all designers and engineers, particularly if they don’t have time for (or access to) traditional CAD tools. It now provides a robust history-based CAD modeling approach ...

While rail is the most environmentally friendly means of transport, freight trains today do not look much different than those from the past. To reach the climate and energy targets of the European Union while achieving higher payloads and a bette...

The webinar highlights the success of the Altair Enlighten Award in elevating initiatives to advance sustainable vehicle lightweighting solutions. The panelists discuss technological advances - from components to complete vehicles. They address questions such as the following, and more:

- What ki

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...

A key development goal of any machine-building project is to produce perfectly running, reliable machines that make high-quality products. By leveraging accurate virtual prototypes, seamless production can be ensured earlier in the development pro...

Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are a rapidly evolving technology and used for a variety of civil and military purposes. To ensure airworthiness, UAS manufacturers rely on advanced simulation and manufacturing techniques to create efficient designs....

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...

Conference at JEC 2021
Nerea MarKaide - Polymers & Composites Expert
CIDETECH Surface Engineering

Abstract
The objective of the AIRPOXY project is to reduce the production and MRO costs of CFRP parts in aeronautics, by introducing a new family of enhanced thermoset composites tha

Conference at JEC 2021
DR.-ING. MARTIN PERTERER, Head of Simulation,
KTM E-TECHNOLOGIES GmbH, Austria

Abstarct
Some 10 years ago, virtual product development was a goal in nearly every part of industry, although in reality, the tools, methods and processes were only available fo

Investment casting is a valued manufacturing process known for its ability to produce detailed components with accuracy, repeatability, and in a variety of different metals, waxes, and high-performance alloys.
Producing high-quality casted components is less prone to common design errors when a sim

TransAnt GmbH is an Austrian joint venture by ÖBB Rail Cargo Group and voestalpine Stahl GmbH with the aim to bring more efficient and effective transport alternatives on to the market and thus making rail freight transport more attractive and sustainable.

In this presentation the company t

Unlike traditional manufacturing, additive manufacturing allows for increased geometric complexity. In order to maximize the added value of additive manufacturing, it's important to create designs that take advantage of this complexity. Using latt...

This webinar will demonstrate how one can use VABS through Altair APA to conduct efficient and high-fidelity design and optimization of composite blades. Realistic examples will be used to demonstrate that VABS can be used to match specific blade ...

In vehicle bodies, bonding has become established for joining a wide variety of materials. However, to date there is no generally applicable method for analyzing the adhesive joint fatigue. In tests performed, a pronounced cohesive crack propagati...

Daniel Jauss, Application Engineer CAE, gives a Demo Sessions on Altair Simulation Solutions for faster evaluation of real-world machines, explaining how to realize vibration reduction with topology optimization performing a modal analysis & Optim...

Simon Zwingert, Technical Consultant, gives a Demo Sessions on Altair Simulation Solutions for faster evaluation of real-world machines, explaining how, to improve the design with studies and the design exploration on the complete assembly to per...

Mr. Vijay Zala and Mr. Pragnesh Zala present development methodologies for new economic machine generations and showcase why Jyoti CNC Automation Ltd. sets simulation at the core of the development strategy.

Mayer & Cie. GmbH & Co. KG sets simulation as a central element of the digital development strategy and leverages virtual product development for more efficient machine generations. Marcel Wohlleb presents simulation applications and illustrates ...

Industry expert Dennis Baum presents how Weber Maschinenbau applies simulation, how simulation can be used along product lifecycle and which benefits arise to customers and internal processes.

Indradev Babu, Managing Director, UCAM PVT LTD, explains how he developed a CNC Jobshop to the largest manufacturer of CNC Rotary tables—presenting different development examples, he explains how Simulation Driven Design helps him to differentiate...

Laminate composites are often the answer to ever increasing lightweighting demands. While significant advances were made regarding mechanical strength, there remain a number of challenges regarding their vibro-acoustic properties. Composites are i...

Lightweight design often is all about replacing metal parts with plastics. Simulation tools are useful to avoid oversized parts and verify its physical integrity early in the development process. But to do it right, influences of the manufacturing...