Altair Engineering Releases Altair HyperWorks 6.0; The Engineering Framework for Product Design.Business Editors/Automotive Writers/High-Tech Writers TROY, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 2003 Altair Engineering Altair Engineering is a product design and development, engineering software and grid computing software company. Altair was founded by Jim Scapa, George Christ, and Mark Kistner in 1985. Over its history, it has had various locations near Detroit, Michigan, USA. Inc. today announced the release of Altair(R) HyperWorks(R) 6.0 -- the next generation of its innovative CAE (1) (Computer-Aided Engineering) Software that analyzes designs which have been created in the computer or that have been created elsewhere and entered into the computer. software suite that delivers an advanced engineering desktop solution for use in any industry or PLM (Product Life cycle Management) A comprehensive information system that coordinates all aspects of a product from initial concept to its eventual retirement. Sometimes called the "digital backbone" of a product, it includes the requirements phase, analysis and design system where products need to be highly engineered. "This software release is the most comprehensive in the company's history. It culminates nearly 100 man-years of technological advancements to empower the global design and engineering community to develop better products faster," said Michael J. Kidder, corporate marketing director, Altair. HyperWorks 6.0 introduces four entirely new products and an impressive list of advancements in modeling, analysis, optimization, visualization, process automation and manufacturing simulation -- all within an open engineering framework. "The global manufacturing community is looking more and more to automate and standardize CAE processes -- improving organizational efficiency and product quality," said Jeffrey M. Brennan, vice president for Altair's commercial software business line. "Additionally, there is a significant movement to not only design for product performance but also for robustness and reliability. Our new product introductions further enable our customers to automate engineering workflow activities and efficiently optimize products for performance and robustness," Brennan added. New products include: -- HyperWorks Process Manager automates and captures corporate best-practices for the entire simulation process. HyperWorks Process Manager is a programmable work flow manager that intelligently guides users through defined processes. This technology enables rapid development and deployment of process automation solutions throughout the organization, benefiting product quality, reliability and staff productivity. -- HyperMorph is a mesh manipulation tool that allows users to quickly parameterize pa·ram·e·ter·ize also pa·ram·e·trize tr.v. pa·ram·e·ter·ized also pa·ram·e·trized, pa·ram·e·ter·iz·ing also pa·ram·e·triz·ing, pa·ram·e·ter·iz·es also pa·ram·e·triz·es models and stretch finite element See FEA. meshes while keeping mesh distortion at a minimum. HyperMorph quickly reduces design and engineering costs as existing meshes can be quickly morphed to hypothetical design considerations -- without remeshing -- for evaluation while preserving the model integrity and connectivity. This powerful new functionality eliminates the need to continuously work back through the CAD system to evaluate design considerations and automatically creates design variables for optimization studies. With the new FE-to-Surf capability in HyperMesh, NURB (NonUniform Rational B-spline) A type of b-spline that is very flexible. NURB curves can represent any shape from a straight line to a circle or ellipse with very little data. surfaces can be created from morphed meshes and exported to commercial CAD systems. -- Altair HyperStudy is a parametric study and multi-disciplinary optimization tool for robust product design. Specifically developed for design of experiments (DOE), stochastic simulations and optimization studies, engineers can gain insight into the physics of a design, assess the robustness of a design for controlled or uncontrolled variations in the design parameters and optimize a design for multi-disciplinary attributes. HyperStudy has an easy-to-use interface and enables a process-based study setup. Further, HyperStudy's integration into Altair HyperWorks(R) makes it easily accessible within any CAE environment, i.e., linear, nonlinear or multi-physics environment. Performance and productivity advancements include: -- HyperMesh, the world's leading, solver-independent pre- and post-processor for finite element analysis Finite element analysis (FEA) is a computer simulation technique used in engineering analysis. It uses a numerical technique called the finite element method (FEM). There are many finite element software packages, both free and proprietary. , offers new functionality for automated mid-surface extraction, mesh and geometry morphing, new connector entities for improved assembly and welding, and a quality-index (QI) meshing and smoothing algorithm. Altair has also increased the robustness of HyperMesh through enhanced interoperability, interfacing speed and user efficiency. These enhancements include new Pro/Engineer and STEP geometry readers, solver-specific user profiles and a "rapid menu" feature which can decrease mouse travel by as much as 70 percent. -- OptiStruct, Altair's innovative concept design tool has once again raised the bar for structural optimization with new capabilities, including 1-D topology optimization for connector/weld placement optimization and composite laminate optimization. Frequency Response analysis and Inertia Relief analysis have also been added to the basic finite element solver solution. -- HyperView is a complete post-processing and visualization environment for finite element analysis (FEA (Finite Element Analysis) A mathematical technique for analyzing stress, which breaks down a physical structure into substructures called "finite elements." The finite elements and their interrelationships are converted into equation form and solved mathematically. ), multi-body system simulation, video and engineering data that sets a new standard for high-speed post-processing and reporting. This release includes new direct readers for ABAQUS *.odb, ANSYS ANSYS Analysis System *.rst, NASTRAN NASTRAN - NAsa STRess ANalysis program. A program for solving large stress analysis problems. ["The NASTRAN User's Manual", SP-222(C3), NASA, 1976]. *.op2 and HyperMesh *.res file formats. Support of vector and tensor tensor, in mathematics, quantity that depends linearly on several vector variables and that varies covariantly with respect to some variables and contravariantly with respect to others when the coordinate axes are rotated (see Cartesian coordinates). plots, local coordinate systems and HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. report formats further extend the value of this product as a general purpose FEA and MBD MBD methylene blue dye bindng test. See sabin-feldmann dye test. MBD Minimal brain dysfunction, see there post-processor. Global distribution of HyperWorks 6.0 is underway and will be completed by September end. To support the release, Altair will be hosting a number of seminars and online presentations throughout the US, Europe and Asia. For more information on these events and HyperWorks, please visit www.altair.com. About Altair Engineering Through product design consulting, advanced engineering software and high performance computing technologies, Altair Engineering increases innovation for clients around the globe. Founded in 1985 and privately held with offices throughout 11 countries, Altair's unparalleled knowledge and expertise in product development and manufacturing extend throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. As the developer of Altair(R) HyperWorks(R) - The Engineering Framework for Product Design(TM), Altair is the leading provider of high-end, open CAE software solutions for modeling, visualization, optimization and process automation. The company's grid computing software, PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, Pro(TM), is a workload management solution for high performance computing environments, LINUX clusters and desktop cycle harvesting that delivers an ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). within one year. For detailed information on Altair, visit www.altair.com. |
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