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We Work with Ford Motor Company to Help Minimize the Weight of its Vehicles

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Developing a Revolutionary Elevator System for Tall Buildings

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The Altair
Enlighten Award:
Automotive’s Only Award Dedicated
to Vehicle Lightweighting

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Lightweighting & Optimization

Developing a Cable-Less Elevator

Are You A Lightweight Design Pioneer?

Minimizing Vehicle Weight at Ford

Developing a Revolutionary Elevator System for Tall Buildings

Automotive’s Only Award Dedicated to Vehicle Lightweighting

What We Do

Product Engineering We use virtual design solutions to help our clients develop better products. Using simulation driven design methods, we accelerate the development process, without compromising performance. Learn More >>

Industrial Design Our industrial design team, Thinklabs, helps businesses succeed through human-centered design. The team works with clients to provide product development strategy and design services. Learn More >>

HyperWorks Solutions By identifying potential improvements in existing operations, our team increase clients’ design and engineering efficiency through system integration and process automation. Learn More >>

Technical Staffing Our staffing team connects the right talent at the right time and place. With three decades of experience, our team has developed the expertise to deliver top quality candidates to our clients. Learn More >>

Featured Customer: FIAT Brasil

Predicting and Eliminating Squeak & Rattle Noise

We partnered with FIAT Brasil to investigate and eradicate Squeak and Rattle phenomena early in the development process.

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Featured Customer: RUAG Space

Topologically Optimized & 3D Printed Component on its Way to Space

We worked with RUAG Space to fulfill their engineering goal to 3D print a lighter, stiffer component made of aluminum.

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Featured Customer: Sharma & Associates

Developing an Innovative New Safety System for Rail Vehicles

We worked with US based consulting company, Sharma & Associates, to develop a new safety system to protect rail engineers in the event of a crash.

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Featured Customer: Honeywell

Minimizing the Weight of Aircraft Engine Components by 26%

Brian Cottrell, Chief of Structures at Honeywell Aerospace, discusses how we worked with their engineering teams to minimize the weight of new aircraft engines.

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A History of Innovation

Altair began as a product design services company in 1985 and the knowledge of real world product development and understanding of manufacturing processes and constraints has never been lost.

1985:
Altair founded
1995:
Our first full vehicle development program for Ford Ranger
2008:
Foundation of the Airbus optimization center

Sharing Product Weight
Reduction Knowledge

We love talking about product weight reduction, so much so that we created Enlighten, the world’s leading source of informative & inspirational content regarding mass reduction across industry.

Here’s a selection of material available on Enlighten.