Altair Engineering
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | CAE Software, Product Design and Development Services, and Grid Computing |
| Founded | Troy, Michigan, USA (1985) |
| Headquarters | Troy, Michigan, USA |
| Key people | Jim Scapa, Founder, President and CEO Jim Brancheau, CTO Brett Chouinard, COO |
| Products | See complete products listing. |
| Employees | 1,500+ (2012) |
| Website | www.altair.com |
Altair Engineering is a product design and development, engineering software and cloud computing software company. Altair was founded by Jim Scapa, George Christ, and Mark Kistner in 1985. Over its history, it has had various locations near Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is currently headquartered in Troy, Michigan with regional offices throughout America, Europe and Asia.
Altair Engineering is the creator of the HyperWorks suite of CAE software products.
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[edit] Organization
Altair is divided into three business divisions: Product Design (PD), HyperWorks CAE Software (HW), and PBS Works (PBS).
[edit] Portfolio
The principal product offerings from Altair's Commercial Software division is its HyperWorks line of software, including:
- OptiStruct - optimization software
- Radioss - FEA solver (linear and non-linear)
- Motionview - Solver-neutral multibody pre-processor
- MotionSolve - multibody solver
- HyperMesh, HyperView, HyperGraph - CAE pre & post processing
- HyperStudy - Design of experiments and multi-disciplinary design optimization
- HyperMath - Mathematical analysis environment
The CAE data and process management solutions
- Altair Data Manager
- Altair Process Manager
The Enterprise Computing division develops and manages:
- PBS Professional software, developed from OpenPBS.
Subsidiaries of Altair Engineering
Altair Owned Companies
- solidThinking - industrial design software
- HiQube - business intelligence software
- Altair ProductDesign - product innovation consulting
[edit] History
Altair was established in 1985. In 1990, HyperMesh was released. In 1994, Altair receives IndustryWeek's "Technology of the Year" award for OptiStruct. [3]
During the 2008 economy crisis, Altair started a program to offer free training on its product for unemployed persons in Michigan[4].
In September 2010, Altair purchased a 136,000-square-foot (12,600 m2) Annex Facility in Troy, to initially house Altair’s subsidiary ilumisys, Inc.
In September 2011, Altair ProductDesign unveiled BUSolution, a hybrid hydraulic bus[5][6][7].
[edit] References
- ^ "ilumisys Inc.". Bloomberg Businessweek. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=50132977. Retrieved 2/2/2012.
- ^ Tom Henderson (11/11/2009). "Ilumisys vies to be No. 1 LED maker". Crain's Detroit Business. http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20091108/FREE/311089978/ilumisys-vies-to-be-no-1-led-maker. Retrieved 2/2/2012.
- ^ John Teresko (12/19/1994). "Altair Computing Inc. Troy, Mich.". IndustryWeek. http://www.industryweek.com/articles/altair_computing_inc-brtroy_mich-_259.aspx?SectionID=38. Retrieved 2/2/2012.
- ^ Sherri Begin Welch (4 December 2008). "Altair offering free training, software licenses for unemployed engineers". Crain's Detroit Business. http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20081204/FREE/812049973/-1. Retrieved 5 December 2008.
- ^ Keith Barry (11/9/2011). "New Hybrids Will Pump it Up". Wired. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/11/hydraulic-hybrids/all/1. Retrieved 2/2/2012.
- ^ Josh Cable (9/8/2011). "Series-Hybrid Hydraulic Transit Bus Promises Fuel, Cost Savings". Industry Week. http://www.industryweek.com/articles/series-hybrid_hydraulic_transit_bus_promises_fuel_cost_savings_25552.aspx. Retrieved 2/2/2012.
- ^ Josh Cable (11/16/2011). "Big Green Machines". Industry Week. http://www.industryweek.com/articles/big_green_machines_26016.aspx?ShowAll=1. Retrieved 2/2/2012.
[edit] External links
- www.altair.com
- www.altairhyperworks.com
- www.pbsworks.com
- www.altairproductdesign.com
- www.hyperworksalliance.com
- www.solidthinking.com
- www.ilumisys.com
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