Altair® Twin Activate™ is an open and flexible integration solution that enables comprehensive system simulation and real-time digital twin deployment throughout the product lifecycle. Its intuitive block-diagram modeling environment allows teams to model complex systems and systems-of-systems, facilitating the testing and prediction of system performance under various conditions. By converging multidisciplinary, multiphysics simulation with advanced artificial intelligence (AI, data analytics, and high-performance computing (HPC technologies, Twin Activate empowers organizations to unlock deeper insights, accelerate innovation, and enhance engineering decisions.
Key Features and Functionality:
- 1D System Simulation: Enables rapid performance assessment of complete products by simulating at the system level, allowing for early design exploration and deeper performance insights.
- Block Diagrams and Control System Design: Provides an intuitive modeling environment for developing smart systems involving sensors, actuators, feedback mechanisms, and built-in logic.
- Mixed Signal-Based and Physical Modeling: Leverages pre-defined Modelica libraries to model common mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and thermal components within the same diagram.
- Code Generation: Compiles models into executable code for various applications, including block customization, exporting to other simulation environments, and deployment on specific targets like Arduino.
- Seamless Integration with Other Altair Tools: Facilitates true multidisciplinary system simulation through co-simulation with tools such as Altair® MotionSolve® for multibody dynamics, Altair® Flux® for motor performance, and Altair® PSIM™ for power converter and motor drive simulation.
- Support for Functional Mock-Up Interface (FMI: Enables model exchange or co-simulation connections with all tools that support the FMI standard, promoting interoperability and collaboration.
Primary Value and User Solutions:
Altair Twin Activate addresses the growing demand for smarter, more connected, and sustainable products by providing a holistic assessment of entire product systems and their interactions. It allows organizations to connect reduced-order models to physical assets, leveraging live data streams and simulated data to test models through various scenarios. This approach informs design decisions from the concept stage, unlocking limitless insights, accelerating innovation, and improving engineering decisions throughout all phases of development. By offering an open and flexible integration platform, Twin Activate ensures seamless connectivity and interoperability between multidisciplinary systems, supporting native Modelica, Spice, Python, OpenMatrix (OML, and C languages, as well as open protocols like MQTT.