Altair Engineering
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Altair Engineering is a product design and development, engineering software and cloud computing software company. Altair was founded by Jim Scapa, George Christ, and Mark Kistner in 1985. Over its history, it has had various locations near Detroit, Michigan
, USA
. It is currently headquartered in Troy, Michigan
with regional offices throughout America, Europe and Asia.
Altair Engineering is the creator of the HyperWorks suite of CAE
software products.
The CAE data and process management solutions
The Enterprise Computing division develops and manages:
Subsidiaries of Altair Engineering
Altair Owned Companies
During the 2008 economy crisis, Altair started a program to offer free training on its product for unemployed persons in Michigan.
In September 2010, Altair purchased a 136000 square feet (12,634.8 m²) Annex Facility in Troy, to initially house Altair’s subsidiary ilumisys, Inc.
Detroit, Michigan
Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...
, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It is currently headquartered in Troy, Michigan
Troy, Michigan
Troy is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan, and is a suburb of Detroit. The population was 80,980 at the 2010 census, making it the 11th-largest city in Michigan by population, and the largest city in Oakland County...
with regional offices throughout America, Europe and Asia.
Altair Engineering is the creator of the HyperWorks suite of CAE
Computer-aided engineering
Computer-aided engineering is the broad usage of computer software to aid in engineering tasks. It includes computer-aided design , computer-aided analysis , computer-integrated manufacturing , computer-aided manufacturing , material requirements planning , and computer-aided planning .- Overview...
software products.
Organization
Altair is divided into three business divisions: Product Design (PD), HyperWorks CAE Software (HW), and PBS Works (PBS).Portfolio
The principal product offerings from Altair's Commercial Software division is its HyperWorks line of software, including:- OptiStruct - optimization software
- Radioss - FEA solver (linear and non-linear)
- Motionview - Solver-neutral multibody pre-processor
- MotionSolve - multibody solver
- HyperMesh, HyperView, HyperGraph - CAE pre & post processing
- HyperStudy - Design of experiments and multi-disciplinary design optimization
- HyperMath - Mathematical analysis environment
The CAE data and process management solutions
- Altair Data Manager
- Altair Process Manager
The Enterprise Computing division develops and manages:
- PBS Professional software, developed from OpenPBSPortable Batch SystemPortable Batch System is the name of computer software that performs job scheduling. Its primary task is to allocate computational tasks, i.e., batch jobs, among the available computing resources...
.
Subsidiaries of Altair Engineering
- ilumisys - produces LED lamps
Altair Owned Companies
- solidThinking - industrial design software
- HiQube - business intelligence software
- Altair ProductDesign - product innovation consulting
History
Altair was established in 1985. In 1990, HyperMesh was released.During the 2008 economy crisis, Altair started a program to offer free training on its product for unemployed persons in Michigan.
In September 2010, Altair purchased a 136000 square feet (12,634.8 m²) Annex Facility in Troy, to initially house Altair’s subsidiary ilumisys, Inc.