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Licences as currency Altair also offers a flexible licensing system for the use of its products. As such, its customers can buy an annual subscription to access a pool of HyperWorks Units (HWUs) and use Altair products and third party soſtware. Tese HWUs are like currency – every


HyperWorks application draws on the resources of a certain number of units when a user begins working with the soſtware. Te HWUs are then returned to the pool when the application is shut down. Te end users can access as many products


from the HyperWorks suite as they need concurrently, until they exceed the total quantity of units in the pool. Altair has also opened this licensing system to


Simulation created using Altair’s HyperWorks Tis is no mean feat, and Altair has constantly


had to reinvent itself to find new ways to help customers. A good example is optimising the user experience (UX) of its highly technical soſtware. Schneider said: ‘Because of the evolution in UX and the rise of a new generation of users, we reached a point where we needed to go back to the drawing board and redesign our products interface, leveraging the functionalities developed over the years but making them available in an easier, more natural fashion.’


Tis trend for broader CAE applications and


a more generic user based shows no signs of slowing over the coming years, as Schneider added: ‘[Over the next five years] access to CAE solutions will become easier and more affordable and engineering technologies will see a growth in usage. ‘Te modelling processes will be more


automated and the single disciplines will merge into multi-disciplinary, optimisation-driven solutions.’


third party vendors through the Altair Partner Alliance (APA). Te customers who participate in the programme can use their existing pool of units for both HyperWorks and participating partner products. Tis helps the customers to reduce the number


of vendors they have to work with, and to consolidate soſtware costs. Altair will continue to grow and answer its


customer’s needs by broadening its solution portfolio and democratising the use of CAE and HPC, according to Schneider. He concluded: ‘Tere will be an even more


closer relationship between Altair and its customers, where Altair will be not only a soſtware and service provider, but an even closer development partner.’ l


Matlab and Teamcenter. Optimus’ wide range of interfaces frees engineers from non-value adding tasks, such as manual model changes and data processing, during simulations. Te time savings allow design engineers to focus on value-adding tasks using Optimus’ post- processing toolset – gaining deeper engineering insights from the simulation results.


Simulation results creating using Noesis Optimus Software Platform


customers that we continue to invest in tools that facilitate the deployment of Optimus for a broad user community.’ El Masri added: ‘Tis means we will continue


to develop Optimus as a so-called central solution that our customers use to interface


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easily and automatically with any CAD tool, physics simulation soſtware and data management solution – to fit any combination of those tools and platforms.’ Example tools and platforms include Ansys Workbench, Adams, MapleSim, NX CAD, NX CAE, STAR-CCM+,


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Working closely with customers Noesis Solutions’ emphasis is on ‘empowering the experience’ for its users by enabling them to understand fully the design space potential and make well-founded engineering decisions. El Masri told Scientific Computing World: ‘Our objective is not to extend Optimus with as many features and methods as possible, but rather focus on the implementation of process integration and design optimisation capabilities that successfully resolve manufacturers’ product development challenges.’ El Masri added: ‘Regular interaction with our customers enables us to correctly capture their ➤


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