Aerospace And Defence
Safety, security, and sustainability are of the highest significance in the very complex and demanding sector of the aerospace and military industries. In tackling these difficulties, Altair is at the fore. Altair uses its expertise in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI) to help organizations navigate this changing landscape as new challenges and opportunities arise in areas like power system design, electrification, supply chain management, and manufacturing. Users of Altair’s simulation technologies may digitally test aircraft interiors, engines, and airframes thanks to our HPC solutions, which also quicken design analysis and optimization. We can build a safer, more interconnected, and more sustainable future because to Altair’s AI capabilities.
Navigating Digital Twins in Aerospace
Altair’s innovative digital twin solution effectively addresses challenges encountered in the aerospace and military sectors. With segmented workflows and real-time collaboration needs, these industries demand sophisticated solutions. Altair provides open, vendor-neutral simulation, HPC/cloud, and AI/machine learning toolkits, enhancing designs, sustainability, and obviating the necessity for physical prototypes.
Rapid Development for Defense Technology
The creation of innovative new technologies is essential in the quick-changing, ever-evolving field of defense. In order to assist military firms improve their designs for performance and safety while cutting down on development time and costs, Altair offers powerful simulation and data analytics capabilities. The military sector can keep up with new trends and shifting needs with the help of these instruments.
Accelerating Startups’ Time to Market
Aerospace startups are reshaping the industry landscape by daring to challenge established giants and forging adaptable collaborations with existing businesses. This strategic partnership not only expedites the integration of cutting-edge technology into conventional systems but also nurtures industry development, paving the way for unprecedented innovation, sustainable growth, and global impact.
AI-Driven Supply Chain and Manufacturing Optimization
Optimize Your Supply Chain for Resilience and Efficiency
Designing a resilient, efficient supply chain is critical for businesses to stay competitive. Altair’s AI-driven supply chain optimization solution allows engineers to simulate scenarios, identify risks and vulnerabilities, and optimize operations. With Altair solutions, businesses can reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction, even in the face of unexpected disruptions.
Plan Maintenance and Prevent Equipment Failure
The cost of downtime in manufacturing – be it planned or unplanned – can be detrimental. Altair data analytics and AI solutions make it easy to monitor equipment health and predict failures in real time. Our solutions deliver the insights organizations need to avoid machine failures and unplanned downtime, increase equipment and production line productivity, and reduce maintenance costs.
Streamline Manufacturing Processes with AI-Driven Solutions
The cost of downtime in manufacturing – be it planned or unplanned – can be detrimental. Altair data analytics and AI solutions make it easy to monitor equipment health and predict failures in real time. Our solutions deliver the insights organizations need to avoid machine failures and unplanned downtime, increase equipment and production line productivity, and reduce maintenance costs.
Advancing Aviation: Power Systems Design and Electrification
Empower Your Power System Design
Altair offers power system design solutions that simulate complex physical systems and optimize performance to ensure safety. Our tools make it easy for engineers to model and optimize new power system designs, minimizing design challenges and maximizing the benefits of electrification and improved aircraft performance.
Maximize Electrification and Aircraft Performance for EVTOLs
Creating efficient, functional electric drivetrains and battery management systems for eVTOLs can be complex and time-consuming. Altair offers solutions that simulate electric aircraft behavior, optimize designs for weight, performance, and safety, and reduce energy consumption. Our solutions cover overall aircraft design, making it easier for engineers to maximize the benefits of electrification and simplify the process while enhancing performance. Learn More
Streamline Power Electronics System Design
Altair’s power electronics system design simulation solutions allow engineers to model complex circuits and optimize system performance to ensure systems meet performance and safety requirements while simultaneously enhancing efficiency and reducing development time and costs.
Airframe Design and Optimization
Revolutionize Airframe Design
Altair’s automated design exploration and generation tools help users model and optimize airframe designs for weight, aerodynamics, and safety, while identifying potential design issues before production. Our material modeling solutions, such as Altair® Material Data Center™, also let engineers analyze the behavior of complex materials and optimize their use in airframe design.
Design Safe, Reliable Airframe Structures
Ensuring airframe structure reliability and safety is a top industry priority. Altair’s comprehensive solutions optimize airframe designs for safety and reliability, reducing development costs and time to market. Our simulation capabilities model and identify potential issues, optimizing safety and reliability before production. Additionally, our material modeling solutions improve structural performance and enhance safety and reliability.
Optimize Complex Systems
Optimizing the performance and safety of an aircraft requires the optimization of various subsystems that make up the complex system. Altair provides an effective solution to model and optimize interactions between airframes and their various subsystems. By simulating the behavior of an entire aircraft system, engineers can identify and address potential design issues and ensure designs meet desired performance and safety requirements.
De-Risk Certification
The certification process for aerospace products can be the toughest part of an entire product strategy. With Altair® HyperWorks®, our design and simulation platform, businesses can identify potential issues before physical testing and certification, de-risking the process and reducing time-to-market. By optimizing designs for reliability, safety, and performance, businesses can ensure that their products meet regulatory requirements while minimizing development costs.
Efficient Electronic System Design
Overcome Wireless Connectivity, EMC, and Radar Challenges
Modern field communications, targeting and threat detection systems, asset tracking and health monitoring, theater operations, and other advanced electronic systems require multiple high fidelity antennas and interference free integration within the device or system for optimum performance, reliability and safety.
Altair’s solution for antenna design and optimization solves these problems with advanced capabilities for installation antenna performance, real-time flight and drive test, EMC (electromagnetic compatibility), scattering and radiofrequency interference and radio and radar coverage and spectrum management.
Automatically Verify PCB Designs Early in Development
As electronic devices become increasingly complex, printed circuit boards (PCBs) face design and manufacturing challenges such as higher density, smaller dimensions, and specialized assemblies. In addition, design efforts using different software tools and databases can increase version control and design iterations, leading to higher costs and delays in product release. Altair’s collaborative PCB design solution provides automated design control that helps organizations accelerate time to market and reduce development and manufacturing costs.
Addressing Thermal Issues in Electronic Systems
Within electronic systems, the buildup of excessive heat poses significant thermal challenges, including the formation of hot spots and stress points. Altair’s comprehensive thermal analysis solution utilizes sophisticated simulations to accurately model heat transfer dynamics. By identifying and addressing potential thermal issues, it optimizes system performance, enhances reliability, and ensures safety standards, thereby prolonging the longevity of electronic components and systems.
Accelerate Service and Design of Complex Electrical Systems
The complexity of modern aerospace and defense electrical systems continues to grow. Altair’s intelligent visualization solution for electronic systems provides dynamic visualizations of critical electrical data to answer development and service challenges. With this solution, users can easily access real-time power systems, including digital twin structures, connections, functions and component attributes – enabling fast and accurate diagnostics. Guided automatic diagnostics accelerate development, debugging and maintenance, increase efficiency and improve product quality.
High-Performance Computing for Aerospace and Defense
Organizations such as NASA, Boeing and Lockheed Martin have long relied on the Altair HPCWorks™ platform, our HPC and cloud platform for robust and efficient workload management and more. Altair tools are designed for a wide range of HPC and cloud workloads, as well as efficient, high-performance computing for EDA applications – and are trusted to manage, optimize and scale mission-critical aerospace and defense workloads. Because life depends on quality and precision throughout the design, development and manufacturing process, HPC supports some of the most important projects on the planet (and beyond) and keeps them running at their best.
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NASA-JPL Adopts EEvision's Electronic System Visualization to Accelerate Mars and Jupiter Missions
NASA-JPL engineers use Altair® EEvision™ software for Europa, Psyche, and Mars Sample Return missions. EEvision aids in developing complex electrical systems and wire harness designs, streamlining the iterative process and enhancing requirements-driven development for current and future projects.
Practical Optimization for Aerospace: Introducing AI/ML Into Aerostructures
Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered by Machine Learning (ML) can be used to improve product development and enterprise decision-making in the aerospace industry. Altair’s solutions make it possible for you to use AI/ML without writing code, so you don’t have to understand how the math methods work behind the scenes.
Accelerate your Digital Transformation
Altair SimSolid addresses these major roadblocks by providing a truly modern and revolutionary solution by generalizing FEA theory with “external approximations” methodology. Join this webinar to hear from Joshua Pennington, Sr. Technical Account Manager, and learn about the benefits SimSolid is bringing to the aerospace and defense industries.
Electromagnetic Simulation for Electronic System Design in Aerospace and Defense
Altair SimSolid addresses these major roadblocks by providing a truly modern and revolutionary solution by generalizing FEA theory with “external approximations” methodology. Join this webinar to hear from Joshua Pennington, Sr. Technical Account Manager, and learn about the benefits SimSolid is bringing to the aerospace and defense industries.