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Altair® Weight Analytics™

Altair Weight Analytics manages the entire weight and balance (W&B) process, provides critical cost information, and empowers engineering and management teams with the control they need to ensure products meet exacting W&B and budget requirements. Deployed as a common, enterprise-wide management tool, Weight Analytics helps users make faster, more accurate decisions and enables them to visualize, analyze, and predict cost and W&B on demand during the entire product life cycle.

Lightweighting Design

Weight Analytics provides a fast, secure, centralized, and role-based information flow enterprise-wide, boosting teamwork and enabling successful lightweight design by giving users instant access to approved, revision-controlled W&B data.

Converging Data and Simulation

Users get easy, intuitive access to high-quality, traceable W&B data that’s ready for data analytics and simulation software, including web browser access and cloudy-ready architecture.

Leveraging Historical Data for New Projects

Weight Analytics helps users develop innovative new products by giving them an easy way to reutilize models, machine learning data, and knowledge accrued from products that are already manufactured.

Altair Product Weight Analytics Airbus Testimonial

How Digitalization Makes Weight & Balance Process More Agile and Connected

At every point during development, we can provide moment of inertia calculation as input for load computation. This previously took four weeks of preparation using Excel, now it takes us just one day.

Kai Thraene | head of weight & balance, Airbus Helicopters

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Ready for Air, Land, and Sea

Aeronautical engineers and pilots know that W&B directly impacts vehicle performance and stability. For example, a plane that’s too heavy may never take off; and even if it does, it may be out of balance and uncontrollable. For the aerospace industry, W&B is paramount.

The principles of Weight Analytics are equally important in other industries, where they apply to various modes of transportation, structures, and products. In the ever-evolving drive for lightweight vehicles, juggling structures’ W&B and integrated systems while understanding payload capacity and positioning is crucial to designing viable products — whether they’re planes, trains, ships, trucks, RVs, or other types of vehicles.

Develop Cost-Effective, High-Quality Products Faster

With Weight Analytics, users can manage partial and incomplete data that impedes product development and achieve data traceability and consistency throughout the product life cycle.

Users can overcome slow data consolidation from legacy systems. By streamlining the repetitive, time-consuming tasks associated with data-stream integration and synchronization, Weight Analytics uses business analytics principles to increase data quality and improve process control.

Weight Analytics runs better, faster “what-if” analyses. It eliminates slow calculations, unreliable reporting, and lack of standardization by capturing and comparing system alternatives, running bill of materials (BOM) comparisons to determine optimal, high-fidelity system configurations. Users can slice and dice huge data sets using business intelligence tools.

Weight Analytics reduces risk by forecasting and accounting for challenges and opportunities at product launch and predicting W&B during the entire product life cycle.

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Integrated Weight Control Approach

Innovation processes for large, complex manufactured goods involve massive amounts of data, organized in streams that come from the manufacturing floor, engineering department, supply chain, and many other internal and external sources. The degree of control over these processes depends on continuous, robust integration among these data streams, which is achieved only when integration protocols are standardized and run on a regular, often automatic, basis.

Weight Analytics provides a common, integrated environment that enables users to manage and monitor product weight from the outset of concept development. Its functional approach quickly compares different options — including competitors’ products — and builds a standard reference for product structures.

Decision-Making Data Always at your Fingertips

Weight Analytics provides consistent, transparent data; standardized and automated workflows; and tools that support accurate decision-making and analysis. These tools utilize best-in-class methods from the business analytics industry and provide:

Quick, reliable, ever-current product status
Powerful business analytics tools that compare BOM composition and attributes to help users minimize risk and optimize performance
An easy way to manage, coordinate, and consolidate inputs to the design process, based on the functional view approach, even when they’re coming from several internal or external stakeholders and suppliers

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