Altair's digital twin solutions use simulation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to create virtual representations of physical assets. This technology optimizes vehicle performance, reduces costs, and speeds up time-to-market. Real-time monitoring and analysis of vehicle data helps automakers identify and fix issues before they occur, improving reliability and reducing downtime. Altair's digital twin solutions reduce the need for physical testing, enabling automakers to simulate and test new designs and performance scenarios.

The best simulation tools won’t deliver what you need unless they’re supported by the right solutions to keep your high-performance computing infrastructure running optimally. Altair computing solutions give automotive designers and manufacturers faster times-to-market and superior product quality with a comprehensive set of workload management and optimization tools for clusters, supercomputers, and cloud.

The shift towards electric propulsion demands efficient, quiet, and lightweight motors, while reducing cabin noise and vibration. Altair provides an end-to-end solution for designing and developing electric motors, offering fast concept evaluation, detailed analysis of electromagnetic and thermal phenomena, automated design exploration, drive cycle simulation, and powertrain component optimization.

Ensuring safe, efficient inverter-motor interactions is a crucial challenge in electric vehicle design. Altair provides an approach to develop exceptional power density systems while identifying EMI/EMC compatibility issues early. Complementary solutions ensure high-energy battery packs immune to thermal runaway, help reengineer vehicle structures for the load of the battery, and protect vehicle occupants and the battery during crashes by simulating crash scenarios.

Accurately calculating the energy balance and range of electric vehicles requires careful consideration of critical subsystems like the powertrain, vehicle aerodynamics, and battery pack. Altair's advanced holistic solutions use reduced order modeling to optimize these subsystems and achieve better EV designs without relying on high-fidelity simulation models.

Engineers must create efficient, reliable, and high-performing transmissions all while minimizing road vibrations to ensure smooth vehicle operation and mitigate cabin sound. Altair provides advanced capabilities for modeling and simulating multi-body gearbox and powertrain systems, optimizing the cooling of traction motors, and maximizing the thermal optimization of gearbox and housing components.

Optimizing antenna design and placement, achieving EMC compliance, minimizing EMI, and testing Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) or ADAS radars can be costly, complex challenges. Altair® Feko® offers antenna design and placement optimization, EMC analysis, EMI mitigation, and virtual test drives for installed antenna performance, V2X communication, and ADAS radar development. It also helps engineers simulate electromagnetic behavior in components like antennas and sensors for better communication and coordination between vehicle systems.

Altair® EEvision™ is a smart electronic system visualization solution that simplifies the debugging process for complex automotive electrical systems. It provides real-time visualizations and up-to-date schematics for system connectivity, wiring harnesses, and component attributes, allowing users to identify signal paths and ensure system functionality.

Altair® PollEx™ offers a comprehensive solution for PCB verification, including design review, verification, and manufacturing assessment, complemented by Altair® SimLab®, which enables earlier issue identification together with thermal and mechanical analysis to optimize the performance and reliability of electronics in smart and connected vehicles.

Analyzing connected vehicle data in real-time is complex and resource-intensive, which limits companies’ ability to enhance vehicle performance, safety, and reliability. Altair® IoT Studio™ empowers companies to extract and analyze valuable insights from their connected vehicle data.

Inefficiencies, delays, and higher costs are just some of the challenges the automotive supply chain faces today. Altair understands these challenges and complexities, and provides comprehensive supply chain management solutions to optimize sourcing, inventory, and logistics. Our tools, including supplier collaboration, demand planning, and logistics optimization, help customers achieve greater efficiency and cost savings.  

With Altair’s data analytics and supply chain optimization expertise, automakers can master variable demand and streamline their operations, ensuring they can deliver high-quality products to their customers on time and within budget. 

Conducting preventative maintenance, according to use time and cycles, helps automakers avoid equipment failure. But it can also mean stopping a well-functioning machine, even if there’s nothing currently wrong. Predictive maintenance is a better way organizations can maintain equipment without disrupting production.  

By pairing our intuitive machine learning tools with cloud-based or edge computing systems to analyze data from your factory floor, Altair® RapidMiner® helps you keep a close eye on your equipment’s health. Our solutions give you the confidence to keep machines running, knowing that you can catch and address issues that aren’t easily detectable, avoiding costly failures and equipment downtime. 

The large number and variety of warranty claims in the automotive market makes traditional business intelligence-based methods unwieldy. But these claims contain valuable information about product quality and reliability, customer expectations, and can reveal design or manufacturing defects. Our solutions enable automakers to utilize this data source make improvements to existing products, develop more reliable new products, and drive increased profitability.