Altair Product Design’s Industrial Design team, led by Vice President of Design, Kevin Shinn, looks to design products for people in real life situations. Their goal is to improve the user experience, make life easier, more beautiful, and a little … Read More
“If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” (A. Einstein). Engineers are nerds. Designers are hipsters. How are they supposed to mix? The first ones see numbers and squares to calculate. The … Read More
It has been nearly 15 years since I first heard about topology optimization. The fluke decision to fill out my first year graduate student class schedule with a niche special topics course on structural optimization became a fateful choice in … Read More
Squeak and Rattle (S&R) noise in vehicle interiors are known to be amongst the most irritating issues for the passenger, causing dissatisfaction and perception of extremely poor build quality. For decades, OEMs and interior suppliers have been well aware of … Read More
This guest post on Innovation Intelligence is written by Neil Baumann, Chief Operations Officer at Key to Metals AG, developer of the Total Materia materials database. Key to Metals is a member of the Altair Partner Alliance. Global data is increasing, and it’s increasing fast! In … Read More
Simulation is indispensable within any product development organization. We at Altair believe this outright and you see that in the vision statement from our CEO, to radically change the way organizations design products and make decisions. Simulation driven design is applied at … Read More
The largest international show of the composite industry, JEC World, will take place next week from March 8th to March 10th in Paris, France. Altair will be hosting partners Componeering and HBM nCode, as well as presenting its software and … Read More
My son Evan, a sophomore studying mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan, and I were at Amer’s Deli in Ann Arbor pondering a design problem while sharing a salad and their awesome #54 Ham Dunk sandwich. I had just … Read More
Designing products goes well beyond simply drafting geometry for manufacturing. Aside from understanding manufacturability, it requires a thorough understanding of function, performance, and failure modes. Nowadays, Computer-aided Design (CAD) is used to draft and store geometry, as well as important … Read More
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