Fast-Tracking Sustainable Mobility - Altair SimSolid Enhances Accuracy in Battery Development and Plastic Parts Design

Röchling Automotive is an automotive supplier of customized products made of high-performance plastics. Through the use of bioplastics, recyclates and battery solutions, Röchling Automotive is realizing its vision "We Drive Sustainable Mobility”.

For a recent project, Röchling Automotive developed new flow channel and cell holder system plastic parts for a battery cooling system that consisted of a battery heat exchanger and a flow channel for the coolant. To ensure the performance and structural integrity of a new battery coolant system, the Röchling Automotive team had to perform a structural analysis of the newly designed plastic parts.

Altair SimSolid enabled Röchling Automotive to slash development time while still achieving high-quality results. The team greatly benefited from SimSolid’s meshless approach, which eliminated the need for notoriously tedious mesh creation and geometry simplification. As a result, their team could analyze more CAD models in a given time, allowing them to achieve optimal designs sooner and with greater confidence. Moreover, thanks to SimSolid’s preliminary evaluation of new designs – which focuses on products’ overall performance – Röchling Automotive can now submit better quotations to customers earlier.