CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

29 October 2009

Product News

Altair Releases HyperForm Solista and HyperBlank, Tailored Sheet-Metal Forming Software Solutions, to Increase Time-to-Market and Profitability

Altair Engineering announced the release of Altair HyperForm Solista and Altair HyperBlank, two standalone technologies that allow sheet-metal part manufacturers to simulate forming operations to cut production costs and material scrap while improving product quality. Leveraging Altair's finite-element solver engine, RADIOSS, HyperForm Solista and HyperBlank offer efficient, cost-effective and accurate solutions to simulate the entire manufacturing process for sheet-metal forming, tube bending and hydroforming.

"HyperForm Solista and HyperBlank have been developed by manufacturing engineers to aid product and cost engineers, die designers, process and try-out engineers by accurately simulating the stamping process," said Altair Stamping Technology Manager Simone Bonino. "We leveraged more than 20 years of Altair's global experience in manufacturing simulation and process design to provide a cost-effective solution to aid in developing the optimal manufacturing process. Our development priorities for these products have been to automate the set-up process by building in the users' knowledge base, use the language of the manufacturing engineers throughout the software user interface, and provide the solution at an extremely competitive price. HyperForm Solista and HyperBlank deliver turnkey solutions that dramatically reduce the overall product development cycle time, generating a return on investment in the first year."

  Altair HyperForm Solista: Sheet-Metal Forming Essentials

  --  Predict Forming Problems and Reduce Cost - The most accurate

      incremental sheet-metal forming solver on the market, Altair RADIOSS,

      is integrated into HyperForm Solista's process-driven user

      interface. This solver allows users to predict wrinkles and

      splits prior to cutting steel, avoiding the unnecessary costs

      associated with die machining and press downtime.

  --  Streamlined, Process-Oriented GUI Increases Productivity - HyperForm

      Solista's built-in knowledge of the manufacturing domain

      efficiently captures the stamping process. A comprehensive collection

      of tailored, process-oriented automations for virtually every stamping

      application further boosts user efficiency. Together with an

      easy-to-understand user interface with navigation and

      terminology that are consistent with the production floor, these

      products do not require prior finite-element analysis training or

      knowledge.

  --  Complete Simulation Solution for Stamping - The HyperForm Solista

      stamping platform efficiently manages the entire stamping simulation

      process from feasibility analysis through final process validation and

      optimization. It also boasts a broad and robust functionality suite,

      including concept die face design, springback prediction and

      compensation, and a powerful results-visualization framework to meet

      and exceed users' high-performance requirements.

  Altair HyperBlank: Accurate Blank Size and Cost Analysis

Altair HyperBlank is a reliable and affordable tool that accurately estimates the initial feasibility, along with the required blank size, for stamping of sheet metal parts. HyperBlank predicts the proper blank size in the early stages of product testing, efficiently evaluating initial costs. The powerful nesting module minimizes material scrap, further lowering production costs. HyperBlank is based on the RADIOSS inverse solver, providing a fast, yet accurate, answer to sheet-metal engineers, purchaser, die designers and press-shop engineers. A very short learning curve allows users to go from blank screen to report generation in seconds.

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