When I began my automotive engineering career, simulation technologies were primarily thought of as validation tools, used to verify the performance of components and system against crash, NVH, durability targets etc. Simulation rarely influenced the design early on. Instead, it … Read More
We are proud to announce the winners of the 2019 Altair Enlighten Award, the automotive industry’s only award dedicated to vehicle lightweighting. Presented annually in conjunction with the 2019 CAR Management Briefing Seminars (MBS), the award honors the year’s greatest … Read More
First introduced in the 1986 Buick Riviera, the in-vehicle touchscreen or Human-Machine Interface (HMI) is not a new technology. Today touchscreens, however, have since replaced the mechanical controls of old and become the new standard of automotive HMI.
The powertrain of electric vehicles must be developed to consider and finally fulfill an increasing number of internal, customer and legal requirements and must be developed with increasing ambitions concerning target fulfillment. The classical development strategies foresee individual development routes … Read More
Just hours before the 2019 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) opened its doors for the its Press Preview, another celebration of human ingenuity was coming to an end in Metro Detroit. Sunday, January 13th was in fact the last … Read More
The automotive industry is undergoing a massive change. This traditionally slow-moving industry is pushed towards innovative products with significantly shorter development cycles than in the past. The main driving forces of this change are the latest emerging technologies, such as … Read More
This guest contribution on Innovation Intelligence is written by Katja Juschka, Marketing and Sales Manager at FLUIDON, developers of DSHplus. FLUIDON is a member of the Altair Partner Alliance. Most motorists are all too familiar with this undesirable phenomena: while parking the vehicle engine stalls … Read More
Engineering design and operational decisions depend largely on engineers’ understanding of applications. This includes assumptions made to simplify problems in order to solve them. However, these assumptions often times introduce errors compared to the actual behavior of an application. Increasing … Read More
It is widely known that one of the biggest focal points of Automotive OEM Research and development in recent years has been electric vehicles. It represents quite a challenge because while OEM manufacturers are very skilled at building internal combustion … Read More
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