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Altair Engineering, Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustryCAE Software, Product Design and Development Services, and Grid Computing
FoundedTroy, Michigan, USA (1985)
HeadquartersTroy, Michigan, USA
Key people
Jim Scapa, Founder, President and CEO
Jim Brancheau, CTO
Brett Chouinard, COO
ProductsSee complete products listing.
Number of employees
1,500+ (2012)
Websitewww.altair.com

Altair Engineering is an American product design and development, engineering software and cloud computing software company. Altair was founded by James R 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.

Organization

Altair is divided into three business divisions: Product Design (PD), HyperWorks CAE Software (HW), and PBS Works (PBS).

Portfolio

The principal product offerings from Altair's Commercial Software division is its HyperWorks line of software, including:

  • OptiStruct - Structural Analysis Solver (linear and non-linear); solution for structural design and optimization
  • RADIOSS - Structural Analysis Solver (highly non-linear problems under dynamic loadings); an industry standard for automotive crash and impact analysis
  • MotionView - Solver-neutral Multi-body Pre-processor
  • MotionSolve - Multi-body Solver; an integrated solution to analyze and optimize multi-body system performance
  • HyperXtrude - Metal & Polymer Extrusion Solver; an advanced solver for manufacturing process simulations and validations
  • HyperForm - Metal Forming Solver
  • HyperMesh, HyperCrash, Simlab, HyperView, HyperGraph - CAE Pre & Post Processing[1]
  • HyperStudy - Design of Experiments and Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization
  • HyperMath - Mathematical Analysis Environment
  • AcuSolve - General-purpose Finite Element Based CFD Solver
  • FEKO - 3D Electromagnetic Solver

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

  • ilumisys - produces LED lighting products[2][3]

Altair Owned Companies

  • solidThinking - industrial design software
  • HiQube - business intelligence software
  • Altair ProductDesign - product innovation consulting

History

Altair was established in 1985. In 1990, HyperMesh was released. In 1994, Altair receives IndustryWeek's "Technology of the Year" award for OptiStruct.[4]

During the 2008 economy crisis, Altair started a program to offer free training on its product for unemployed persons in Michigan.[5]

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. Altair also acquired SimLab in October 2011.[6]

2011 began with another acquisition, ACUSIM Software, with their CFD Solver, AcuSolve.[7] In September 2011, Altair ProductDesign unveiled BUSolution, a hybrid hydraulic bus.[8][9][10]

In June 2014, Altair acquired EM Software & Systems – S.A. (Pty) Ltd and its international distributor offices in the United States, Germany, and China, with their electromagnetic simulation software, FEKO.[11][12][13]

Alternative software

Free and open-source software

Proprietary software

References

  1. ^ Chorofas Visual Programming Technology 1997 p196 "The University of Illinois in 1990 developed Hyperview for Intel's iPSC/2 hypercube"
  2. ^ "ilumisys Inc". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  3. ^ Tom Henderson (11 November 2009). "Ilumisys vies to be No. 1 LED maker". Crain's Detroit Business. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  4. ^ John Teresko (19 December 1994). "Altair Computing Inc. Troy, Mich". IndustryWeek. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  5. ^ Sherri Begin Welch (4 December 2008). "Altair offering free training, software licenses for unemployed engineers". Crain's Detroit Business. Retrieved 5 December 2008.
  6. ^ http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2010-10-28/altair_engineering_to_acquire_simlab_corporation.html
  7. ^ http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aabaar.htm
  8. ^ Keith Barry (9 November 2011). "New Hybrids Will Pump it Up". Wired. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  9. ^ Josh Cable (8 September 2011). "Series-Hybrid Hydraulic Transit Bus Promises Fuel, Cost Savings". Industry Week. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  10. ^ Josh Cable (16 November 2011). "Big Green Machines". Industry Week. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  11. ^ http://www.deskeng.com/de/altair-em-software-systems-complete-deal/
  12. ^ http://www.feko.info/about-us/News/altair-and-em-software-systems-s.a.-close-deal
  13. ^ http://www.emss.co.za/history.php
  14. ^ Advanced Simulation Library Homepage
  15. ^ [depts.washington.edu/clawpack]
  16. ^ COOLFluiD homepage
  17. ^ deal.II homepage
  18. ^ FEATool homepage
  19. ^ FreeCFD homepage
  20. ^ Gerris homepage
  21. ^ OpenFoam Homepage
  22. ^ OpenFVM homepage
  23. ^ Palabos homepage
  24. ^ SU2 homepage
  25. ^ Azore Technologies, LLC Home Page
  26. ^ Software Cradle Co., Ltd. Home Page
  27. ^ SC/Tetra Page
  28. ^ scSTREAM Page
  29. ^ Heat Designer Page


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