When it comes to manufacturing innovative aerospace technologies, the product development and analysis process can be long and tedious. As part of their new generation launch vehicle and spacecraft engine product offerings, Astra was looking for a way to streamline their product development life cycle. While they intended to improve speed and efficiency, it was important that Astra’s team not lose accuracy within their data and remain consistent with their pre-existing test results. With Altair SimSolid, Astra was able to build and analyze better, more reliable products faster. It allowed Astra to perform the expected workload they needed, producing robust results and accurate reporting in a tenth of the time it took other in-house tools currently in use.

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Röchling Automotive is an automotive supplier of customized products made of high-performance plastics. Through the use of bioplastics, recyclates and battery solutions, Röchling Automotive is realizing its vision "We Drive Sustainable Mobility”.

For a recent project, Röchling Automotive developed new flow channel and cell holder system plastic parts for a battery cooling system that consisted of a battery heat exchanger and a flow channel for the coolant. To ensure the performance and structural integrity of a new battery coolant system, the Röchling Automotive team had to perform a structural analysis of the newly designed plastic parts.

Altair SimSolid enabled Röchling Automotive to slash development time while still achieving high-quality results. The team greatly benefited from SimSolid’s meshless approach, which eliminated the need for notoriously tedious mesh creation and geometry simplification. As a result, their team could analyze more CAD models in a given time, allowing them to achieve optimal designs sooner and with greater confidence. Moreover, thanks to SimSolid’s preliminary evaluation of new designs – which focuses on products’ overall performance – Röchling Automotive can now submit better quotations to customers earlier.

Presentation by Gareth Mayville, Engineering Designer with Kautex Textron as part of Altair's Simulate at the Speed of Design 2025 conference.

This presentation showcases how Kautex has leveraged Altair SimSolid to drive rapid, innovative and creative design solutions on a vastly reduced time scale. The products offered by Kautex and scenarios that led to the benchmark and adoption of SimSolid will be covered, followed by details of the benchmark, key benefits of SimSolid and how they are leveraged, finishing off with some points about how workflows such as Modal Analysis are being investigated to be SimSolid-exclusive workflows at the organization.

With more than 35 years of experience in research & development projects INESPASA has been working with companies such as Airbus, Alestis, Boeing, and Renault. To be successful in a highly competitive market, aeronautical tooling companies like INESPASA must deliver maximum quality and comply with highly demanding standards and regulations while meeting tight time constraints and limited budgets. Developing and testing aircraft component prototypes is time consuming and expensive, so INESPASA had to find new and faster ways – like Multiphysics simulation – to evaluate its aero-structure designs, identify problems before they occur, and ensure viability.

INESPASA turned to Altair and applied tools such as Altair SimSolid®, Altair® Inspire™ and Altair® MotionSolve®. Thanks to fast simulation results, INESPASA addressed their challenge and found the solution with the best weight-stiffness ratio providing optimum usability of their aero structure elements.