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OptiStruct Helps EADS Improve Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) Process
10/13/2011
EADS Innovation Works implemented an optimization strategy, with topology optimization in OptiStruct, to produce a viable part with as little material as possible thus minimizing the weight.
Learn how HyperWorks and OptiStruct helped to enable EADS to achieve an incredible 64% weight savings!
► Read the Complete EADS Success Story
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HyperWorks Improves Development Processes in Automotive Industry
09/15/2011
PWO is using the HyperWorks Suite to develop automotive components such as the described cross car beam. By including simulation into the development process the entire system can be analyzed and specifications can be met before a prototype is built.
Learn how HyperWorks helped to reduce development times, accelerate innovation and improve product quality and robustness.
► Read the Complete PWO Success Story
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MCE-5 DEVELOPMENT uses HyperWorks Suite to optimize engine performance
08/16/2011
The MCE-5 VCRi engine is able to withstand very high loads and individual components have to endure heavy loads. The challenge for the engineers of MCE-5 DEVELOPMENT was to analyze and optimize the weight of each component used within the new engine, while keeping the stiffness and the stresses within the range of the values required by the MCE-5 VCRi technology.
Learn how HyperWorks helped them to shorten development times, validate more variants in the same time, and optimize structural performances.
► Read the Complete MCE-5 Success Story
Learn about the HyperWorks products referenced in the success story:
► Learn about Altair HyperMesh
► Learn about Altair HyperView
► Learn about Altair OptiStruct
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Forklift Manufacturer Cuts Pre-Processing Time in Half with HyperWorks
07/13/2011
The main goal of NMHG and Chief Engineer Dr. Pedro Bastias was to virtually design, test and evaluate each product before any physical prototypes are made. Using HyperWorks, NMHG is saving time, cutting costs and identifying new ways to resolve stubborn engineering problems.
► Read the NMHG Complete Success Story
Learn about the HyperWorks products referenced in the success story:
► Learn about Altair HyperMesh
► Learn about Altair HyperView
► Learn about Altair OptiStruct
► Learn about Altair MotionView
► Learn about Altair MotionSolve
► Learn about Altair RADIOSS
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WJH Engineering Cuts Physical Testing Costs of Medical Devices By 95%
06/16/2011
WJH Engineering Consultants provides finite-element analysis and design for many of America’s largest developers of medical devices. Company President, Jim Harrison, works directly with engineers at companies producing medical devices and with doctors to understand the clinical application of these products, including any anatomical loads or displacements that should be incorporated into their design.
► Read the full WJH Engineering Case Study
► Learn about the HyperWorks product used in this story
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Wagon Automotive Speeds Development Time While Cutting Prototype Costs Using HyperWorks
05/12/2011
Wagon Automotive, a system and module supplier of components to major car builders, sought ways to accelerate product development and reduce prototyping costs while maintaining high quality. Adopting the HyperWorks suite of advanced CAE tools enabled the company to achieve both those goals. Wagon Automotive now uses HyperWorks during the entire development cycle, from concept design to optimization.
► Read the full Wagon Automotive Case Study
► Learn about Altair HyperMesh
► Learn about Altair HyperView
► Learn about Altair OptiStruct
► Learn about Altair HyperStudy
► Learn about Altair HyperForm
Tags: automotive, HyperForm, HyperMesh, HyperStudy, HyperView, optimization, OptiStruct, prototype, success story
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ATK uses OptiStruct to Improve Lunar Lander Design
04/12/2011
ATK Aerospace Structures in Clearfield, UT is a premier aerospace design and manufacturing company focusing on the design and manufacture of composite structures.
ATK used Altair® OptiStruct® to provide the conceptual design ideas necessary to reduce the Altair Lunar Lander Descent Module weight and meet specified design requirements not achieved in the baseline design. In addition ATK was able to evaluate the application of composites while optimizing structural architecture of the lander module.
► Read the full ATK Aerospace Structures Case Study► Learn about Altair OptiStruct
Tags: ATK, composite, concept design, Lunar, optimization, OptiStruct, space, topology
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Superior Industries Accelerates its Design Process With HyperWorks
03/10/2011
Superior Industries made its first stylish mark on America’s roads with the debut of its cast aluminum wheels on the Ford Mustang II in 1974. With a roar heard throughout the auto industry, Superior’s design excellence set the standard for classy aluminum wheels, and the popularity of the company’s products accelerated rapidly. Today, Superior is one of the largest OEM suppliers of cast aluminum road wheels.
One of Superior’s main challenge was to shorten the overall product design cycle. They attacked this problem by applying the customization and automation capabilities of HyperWorks to many of its CAE processes.
► Read the full Superior Industries Success Story► Learn about the Altair products used in this story
Tags: aluminum, automation, automotive, cast, HyperMesh, HyperView, PBS Professional, road, Superior, wheels
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