TEN TECH AEROSPACE & DEFENSE, INC. provides multi-discipline engineering services including high-end mechanical engineering design, analysis, physical testing support and hardware prototyping services.

Because speed and accuracy are top priorities, they selected Altair® SimLab® for its intuitive interface that allows them to stay in the same tool for the entire process from meshing and setup to solving and visualization. They are also able to use their legacy data efficiently, ensuring customers are fully protected.

Patrone and Mongiello wanted a solution to monitor and control its sheet metal forming process so that it could improve product quality and reduce production waste. The company selected Altair’s digital twin solution to achieve its goal and turned to Advanced Engineering (AE) Solutions, an Altair partner, to implement it. Altair’s digital twin solution gave Patrone and Mongiello the means to monitor quality and make corrections during all stages of its sheet metal forming process with respect to varying sheet metal material properties and equipment operating conditions. The digital twin solution, which leveraged Altair Inspire Form, Altair HyperStudy, Altair Activate, Altair romAI and Altair Panopticon, reduced production waste by more than 15%, reduced simulation time from hours to seconds, and enabled the company to monitor its forming process in a real-time environment.

Skaigh Engineering, based in Devon, U.K., specializes in high-quality aluminum gravity die castings for customers in various industries. To help its customers reduce development and manufacturing costs and grow in a highly competitive market, Skaigh set out to solve several typical problem areas such as wasted time spent improving customers’ poor manufacturing techniques and long lead times due to trial-and-error development methods involving inherited dies. Working with Origin Engineering Solutions, an Altair partner that provides design and simulation solutions, support, and training, Skaigh implemented Altair® Inspire™ Cast, which helped the company gain a better understanding of the casting process, let it try out theories without prototypes, and save money by reducing scrap and improving yields. In addition to producing an interface between product design and the casting process, simulation bridges skill and knowledge gaps and enables users to get things done right the first time.

ZT Innovations is a motor control consulting firm that designs algorithms and software and hardware platforms. They pride themselves on their passion for motor control design as well as the out-of-box solutions they provide for products like electric bikes, medical drills, drones, compressors, and more. They found many software tools on the market were incomplete, requiring they employ multiple tools for different steps in the process that happened sequentially. As a result, their existing solutions needed significant simulation time to accurately represent the physical system and were extending overall time to completion for clients.

Altair® PSIM™ provides a complete solution for simulation of motor controls, microgrids, and power supplies that allowed them to run a full system simulation in a single step, rather than a linear process. PSIM shortens their simulation time exponentially, allows them to be a full-service provider and instills confidence in customers that their simulations realistically represent the actual system.