

Altair Inspire Extrude Metal is an advanced simulation tool designed to optimize metal extrusion processes by enabling virtual testing, validation, and correction of extrusion die designs. It allows engineers and designers to visualize material flow and temperature within a die during extrusion, facilitating the identification and elimination of potential defects before physical die construction. This proactive approach reduces costly prototypes and redesign cycles, leading to improved extrusion quality, increased production yield, and enhanced customer satisfaction. Key Features and Functionality: - Defect Detection: Identifies potential issues such as profile distortion, tool deflection, and surface quality problems before die construction. - Geometry Modification: Allows for quick de-featuring and modification of CAD models to streamline the design process. - Tool Assembly Modeling: Simulates elastic and elasto-plastic properties of the tool assembly to predict performance under operational conditions. - Automatic Bearing Optimization: Adjusts die designs automatically to ensure balanced material flow and optimal product quality. - Quenching Rate Prediction: Provides insights into cooling rates to prevent defects related to thermal stresses. Primary Value and Problem Solving: Inspire Extrude Metal addresses the challenges faced by extrusion companies in producing complex profiles with tight tolerances and high-quality surface finishes. By offering a virtual press environment, it enables users to detect and correct potential defects early in the design phase, thereby reducing the need for physical prototypes and minimizing production costs. The software's intuitive interface and comprehensive simulation capabilities empower organizations to enhance productivity, improve product quality, and achieve higher customer satisfaction.

Altair® PBS Professional® is a high-performance workload manager and job scheduler designed to enhance productivity, optimize resource utilization, and simplify administration across clusters, clouds, and supercomputers. It efficiently manages workloads ranging from extensive HPC tasks to millions of small, high-throughput jobs. With dynamic policies, AI workload support, a robust customization API, and broad hardware compatibility, PBS Professional securely addresses the most demanding challenges, maintaining efficiency throughout an organization's HPC environment. Key Features and Functionality: - Exascale Computing Support: Capable of orchestrating and optimizing massive compute power, managing up to 50,000 nodes, 10 million jobs, and 1,000 concurrent active users. - Policy-Driven Scheduling: Accelerates job execution and selects optimal job placement across diverse, distributed resources, with topology-aware and GPU scheduling capabilities. - Budget Allocation and Cost Control: Manages enterprise budgets by allocating user credits for workloads, with customizable currencies and comprehensive reporting of credit consumption by groups and individual users. - Unparalleled Security: The only workload manager to achieve EAL3+ certification and integrate with RedHat’s SELinux cross-domain security technology. - Modern Web Interface: Features a powerful GraphQL interface for job and node status operations, including job submission, deletion, alteration commands, and interactive API for crafting queries. Primary Value and User Solutions: PBS Professional delivers a comprehensive solution for managing complex HPC workloads, ensuring optimal resource utilization and efficiency. It simplifies administrative tasks, supports mixed AI and HPC workloads, and offers extensive configurability to meet unique organizational demands. By providing robust security measures and a modern interface, it addresses the critical needs of industries requiring reliable and scalable workload management solutions.

Altair Inspire Extrude Polymer is an intuitive simulation tool designed to enhance the polymer extrusion process. It enables engineers and designers to virtually test, validate, and optimize extrusion die designs, facilitating a deeper understanding of how profile features and process variables interact with various polymers. By detecting potential defects—such as unbalanced flow, overheating, and poor surface quality—before physical die construction, the software reduces the need for costly prototypes and redesign cycles. This leads to improved extrusion quality, increased production yield, and enhanced customer satisfaction. Key Features: - Guided Extrusion Templates: Provides templates for coextrusion, spiral dies, coextrusion with metal inserts, and film and sheet dies, streamlining the design process. - Defect Prediction and Elimination: Allows users to predict and address extrusion defects such as profile distortion, die swell, and coextrusion interference, ensuring higher quality outputs. - Powerful Results Visualization: Offers comprehensive visualization of critical parameters including temperature, displacement, velocity distribution, pressure, viscosity, and cooling time, aiding in thorough analysis and optimization. - User-Friendly Interface: Features an intuitive interface that simplifies the simulation process, making advanced physics simulations accessible to engineers and designers of all experience levels. Primary Value: Inspire Extrude Polymer addresses the challenges of producing complex polymer profiles by providing a virtual environment to test and refine die designs before physical production. This proactive approach minimizes the risk of defects, reduces development costs, and accelerates time-to-market. By enabling early detection and correction of potential issues, the software enhances product quality and manufacturing efficiency, ultimately leading to higher customer satisfaction and competitive advantage.

Altair Breeze is a comprehensive I/O profiling and dependency analysis tool designed to empower engineers by providing deep insights into application performance and deployment. It enables users to swiftly identify and resolve software deployment challenges, as well as file and network dependencies. By delivering detailed data on storage exports and generating summary reports, Altair Breeze highlights both efficient and inefficient I/O operations, facilitating quick optimizations. Even well-designed programs can suffer performance issues due to local settings, such as improper data storage locations, small I/O operations, and excessive metadata, which can strain compute, network, and storage resources. Utilizing Altair Breeze and adhering to its best practices allows users to address immediate problems, comprehend storage requirements, and enhance future planning. The tool profiles application file I/O to ensure data is stored appropriately. Key Features and Functionality: - System Administration Triage: Provides in-depth analysis of application arguments, environment, libraries, and dependencies to debug deployment and performance issues effectively. - Third-Party Application Troubleshooting: Assists in configuring storage usage for third-party applications by placing data on appropriate volumes, removing legacy dependencies, and designing suitable infrastructure. - HPC User Education: Offers I/O Healthcheck Reports that provide straightforward overviews and performance recommendations based on common I/O issues, making every engineer an I/O expert. - Application Tuning and Optimization: Automates performance and regression testing with detailed I/O profiling, exporting files and dependencies to ensure application correctness and facilitate migration. - Cloud Migration Automation: Discovers dependencies in legacy environments for seamless migration, containerizes workloads by including only necessary data, and profiles application I/O to right-size CPU, memory, and storage resources for cost management in the cloud. - Storage Benchmarking: Provides accurate performance metrics across various I/O patterns to troubleshoot storage issues and evaluate new solutions, enabling deep dives into performance patterns using real applications. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Altair Breeze addresses the complexities of software deployment and performance optimization by offering detailed insights into application I/O and dependencies. It empowers engineers to identify and rectify inefficiencies, ensuring optimal application performance and resource utilization. By automating dependency tracking and providing comprehensive I/O profiling, Altair Breeze simplifies troubleshooting, enhances data hygiene, and supports strategic migration planning, making it an invaluable tool for organizations aiming to optimize their IT infrastructure and application deployments.

Altair Inspire Form is a comprehensive stamping simulation software designed to assist product designers and process engineers in optimizing designs, ensuring robust manufacturing processes, and reducing material costs. Its intuitive interface and powerful features enable users to predict formability, visualize potential defects, and refine designs early in the product development cycle. Key Features and Functionality: - Feasibility Analysis: Quickly assess part formability, identifying issues like splits or wrinkles, allowing for early design modifications. - Automated Blank Nesting: Efficiently layout flattened blanks on sheet coils to maximize material utilization and minimize waste. - Incremental Solver for Tryout Module: Simulate multi-stage forming, trimming, and springback processes, facilitating iterative design improvements. - Geometry Preparation Tools: Extract midsurfaces, fill holes, remove flanges, and modify geometry to prepare models for simulation. - Materials Library: Access a comprehensive library of standard steel and aluminum grades, with the option to add custom materials. - Results Visualization: Analyze thinning, splits, wrinkles, and other defects to refine designs and ensure manufacturability. Primary Value and Problem Solving: Inspire Form empowers users to evaluate manufacturability early in the design process, reducing costly downstream corrections. By predicting accurate blank shapes and optimizing material usage, it helps in minimizing waste and lowering production costs. The software's user-friendly interface and efficient simulation capabilities streamline the development of high-quality stamped parts, enhancing overall product performance and manufacturing efficiency.

Altair Multiscale Designer is a comprehensive framework designed to develop highly predictive and computationally efficient material models for a wide range of materials, from homogeneous isotropic to heterogeneous anisotropic behaviors. Fully integrated with Altair's simulation products, it enables accurate and efficient prediction of material properties, significantly reducing the time and cost associated with material model development by minimizing experimental data requirements. This tool is particularly beneficial for composite materials, facilitating improved design optimization through multiscale structural simulations. Key Features and Functionality: - Single and Multiscale Material Models: Develop predictive, computationally efficient models for materials ranging from brittle and ductile homogeneous isotropic to heterogeneous anisotropic behaviors. - Parametric Unit Cell Library and External Unit Cells: Easily create unit cells for continuous, discontinuous, woven, and particle product forms using a built-in parametric library, or import custom unit cells from various pre-processors. - Virtual Test Lab: Apply material models to ASTM/ISO test specimens from a parametric library to perform full simulations of defined tests, obtaining results including A and B-basis allowables. - Forward and Inverse Material Model Development Workflows: Utilize known constituent material properties to calculate homogenized properties or derive constituent properties from known homogenized materials . - Comprehensive Material Databases: Access databases comprising typical properties for metals, polymers, and fibers, as well as validated multiscale material models. - Multiscale Structural Simulation: Integrate material models with structural simulation solvers, supporting both implicit and explicit analyses with hardware parallelization on different platforms. - Injection Molding Material Models: Develop predictive and efficient material models for anisotropic reinforced injection and compression molded materials, accounting for full anisotropic behavior using fiber orientation tensors. - Material Model Development as a Service: Collaborate with Altair experts to develop custom material models tailored to specific engineering simulation needs. Primary Value and User Solutions: Altair Multiscale Designer enhances the composite design process by improving simulation accuracy and reducing reliance on physical testing, leading to better designs in less time. Its well-established methodologies enable reliable composite simulations without requiring specific multiscale expertise. By providing accurate and complete material data, it facilitates implicit and explicit finite element analyses with Altair's solvers and other industry-standard tools.

Altair Inspire PolyFoam is a cutting-edge simulation tool designed to optimize the design and manufacturing processes of both rigid and flexible polyurethane foam components. By integrating simulation early in the product development cycle, it empowers designers and engineers to explore various design options, predict potential manufacturing defects, and enhance product quality, all while reducing costs associated with physical prototyping and tooling rework. Key Features and Functionality: - Part Design Creation: Import and refine 3D part designs to ensure manufacturability, and develop initial molds with necessary components. - Mold and Part Configurations: Quickly test and optimize various configurations, including gate and nozzle placements, foam injection directions, and mold venting, to achieve optimal results. - Advanced Physics Simulation: Simulate critical processes such as injection, filling, foaming, curing, and cooling, with simulations typically completing in a few hours on standard laptops. - Defect Prediction: Identify common manufacturing defects like air traps, porosity, weld lines, and turn-up early in the design phase to mitigate issues before production. - Multi-Foam Support: Simulate the injection of multiple foam types within a single mold or process to design products with enhanced comfort and functionality. - Material Properties Management: Utilize an existing material database and securely add proprietary materials in collaboration with Altair. Primary Value and Problem Solving: Inspire PolyFoam addresses the challenges associated with polyurethane foam manufacturing by enabling virtual testing and validation of designs before physical molds are created. This proactive approach allows for the early detection and correction of potential manufacturing defects, leading to improved product quality and reduced development costs. By streamlining the design-for-manufacturing process, it ensures that production-ready tools are delivered on time and within budget, ultimately enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of product development cycles.

Altair Embed is a comprehensive visual environment designed for embedded system development, enabling engineers to design, analyze, and simulate complex systems using intuitive block diagrams and state charts. It facilitates the automatic generation of compact, optimized firmware for a wide array of microcontrollers, eliminating the need for manual coding. This approach streamlines the development process, reduces errors, and accelerates the edit-debug cycle. With robust support for on-chip peripherals and extensive libraries tailored for electric motor control, digital power design, and image and video processing, Altair Embed is an invaluable tool for developing efficient and reliable embedded applications. Key Features and Functionality: - Model-Based Design: Utilize block diagrams and state charts to model and simulate continuous, discrete, hybrid, multi-rate, and event-based systems. - Automatic Code Generation: Convert models into efficient, fixed or floating-point MISRA-compliant firmware for over 1,200 microprocessor targets without writing code. - Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL Prototyping: Verify and test closed-loop virtual plant models in real-time with firmware executing on the target hardware. - Prebuilt Motor/Drive Controller Diagrams: Access over 170 motor/drive examples from the eDrives library to expedite development. - Digital Power Designer (DPD: Utilize tools and diagrams for designing, simulating, and testing power converters, compensators, filters, and more. - Extensive Microcontroller Support: Generate firmware for a broad range of microcontrollers, including STM32, TI C2000, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and others. Primary Value and User Solutions: Altair Embed addresses the challenges of embedded system development by providing a model-based design environment that simplifies the creation and testing of complex systems. By automating code generation and offering prebuilt libraries, it reduces development time and minimizes errors associated with manual coding. The integration of HIL prototyping allows for real-time testing and validation, ensuring that embedded applications perform reliably in real-world scenarios. This comprehensive toolset empowers engineers to develop high-quality embedded systems efficiently, meeting the demands of various applications such as robotics, electric motors, IoT devices, and video processing.

Altair Pulse is a low-code platform designed to construct and orchestrate engineering workflows by integrating multiple software tools from various sources. It enables teams to simulate complex systems and perform detailed modeling, analysis, and optimization through fast, reliable, and repeatable processes. By automating repetitive tasks using visual workflows and a library of functional blocks, Pulse ensures that teams have the right model for informed decision-making at every project stage. It seamlessly integrates with Altair's suite of modeling and visualization tools, allowing users to set up models and extract data efficiently without switching between applications. This streamlined approach eliminates errors and accelerates simulation-driven design, leading to the development of reliable, high-quality products. Key Features and Functionality: - Low-Code Workflow Construction: Build and manage engineering workflows with minimal coding, enhancing accessibility and efficiency. - Integration of Multiple Software Tools: Seamlessly orchestrate various software applications to simulate complex systems and processes. - Automated Repetitive Tasks: Utilize visual workflows and a library of functional blocks to automate tedious tasks, ensuring consistency and reducing manual effort. - Seamless Integration with Altair Tools: Combine with Altair's modeling and visualization tools for efficient model setup and data extraction without leaving the Pulse environment. - Error Reduction and Accelerated Design: Streamline parameter and result management across software packages to minimize errors and speed up simulation-driven design. Primary Value and User Solutions: Altair Pulse addresses the challenges of managing complex engineering workflows that involve multiple software tools and repetitive tasks. By providing a low-code environment with visual workflows and automation capabilities, Pulse enhances team efficiency, reduces procedural errors, and accelerates the product development lifecycle. It ensures that engineering teams have the appropriate models at each project stage, facilitating informed decision-making and the creation of high-quality, reliable products.
Providing advanced simulation solutions powered by Siemens Simcenter Inspire Extrude Metal, enabling extrusion companies to optimize die design, reduce development costs, and improve product quality. We help engineers leverage physics-based simulation to eliminate defects early, enhance process efficiency, and increase production yield.