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Working with Ford to Help Minimize the Weight of its Vehicles

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See How We’re Eradicating Undesirable Interior Noise at PSA

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Automotive’s Only Award Dedicated
to Vehicle Lightweighting Returns for 2017

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Lightweighting & Optimization

Squeak & Rattle Analysis at PSA

Are You A Lightweight Design Pioneer?

Minimizing Vehicle Weight at Ford

Squeak & Rattle Analysis at PSA

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: Thales Alenia

Maximizing the Potential of Additive Manufacturing with Design Optimization

We helped Thales Alenia Space reduce satellite mass by nearly 50% by combining optimization technologies and expertise with additive manufacturing methodologies.

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Featured Customer: Wilson Golf

Innovation in Golf Club Design for Wilson's Driver vs. Driver Competition

We partnered with Wilson Labs to help the contestants of Wilson Golf's Driver vs. Driver competition optimize the aerodynamics, test variations and verify their club designs quickly and easily.

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Featured Customer: Robot Bike

Developing a Fully Customizable Additively Manufactured Mountain Bike

We worked with Robot Bike Co. to develop a fully customizable, additively manufactured mountain bike, ultimately minimizing the weight, increasing strength and reducing the part count of previous designs.

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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.