Altair Engineering

Altair Engineering, Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	CAE Software, Product Design and Development Services, and Grid Computing
Founded	Troy, Michigan, USA (1985)
Headquarters	Troy, Michigan, USA
Key people	Jim Scapa, Founder, President and CEO Jim Brancheau, CTO Brett Chouinard, COO
Products	See complete products listing.
Employees	1,300 (2010)
Website	www.altair.com

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.

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 OpenPBS.

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^[1].

In September 2010, Altair purchased a 136,000-square-foot (12,600 m²) Annex Facility in Troy, to initially house Altair’s subsidiary ilumisys, Inc.

References

1. ^ Sherri Begin Welch (4 December 2008). "Altair offering free training, software licenses for unemployed engineers". Crain's Detroit Business. http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20081204/FREE/812049973/-1. Retrieved 5 December 2008. 

External links

• www.altair.com
• www.altairhyperworks.com
• www.pbsworks.com
• www.altairproductdesign.com
• www.hyperworksalliance.com
• www.solidthinking.com
• www.ilumisys.com
• www.uk.altair.com

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