The Altair Partner Alliance (APA) is pleased to announce the addition of Granta Design’s CES Selector to its software offering. CES Selector is the industry standard tool for materials selection and graphical analysis of material properties. It is used to innovate and evolve products, quickly identify solutions to materials issues, confirm and validate material choices, and reduce material and development costs.
“Altair’s customers across all industries will benefit from the knowledge of material experts in their product development and design phases,” said Marian Bulla, Program Manager for Material Data at Altair. “Granta’s technology will enable improved, streamlined processes and time-savings by having everything in one workflow. Users can innovate with CES Selector by confirming and validating their choice of materials, resolving materials issues, pre-screening materials and focusing on the most promising solutions in the early project phase.”
CES Selector provides access to a unique, comprehensive and linked “encyclopedia” of material data, combined with highly visual tools for comparing and screening materials with a structured and rigorous approach to material selection. It provides access to complete and comparable data for all classes of engineering materials including economic and environmental data. Powerful charting capabilities enable visual comparison of material performance and component geometry and load condition can be considered as part of the material selection process.
“Simulation is enabling many companies to move away from a reliance on physical prototyping and testing,” said Charlie Bream, Senior Product Manager for CES Selector at Granta Design. “However, little attention has been paid to the initial choice of material, with users often selecting materials they’ve used before. This inhibits innovation and can lead to suboptimal products. To help address this issue, we are delighted to be adding CES Selector to the Altair Partner Alliance. HyperWorks users will be able to quickly validate and identify the most appropriate materials for their applications before starting on detailed simulation work.”
CES Selector is used in a wide range of industries including; industrial, consumer goods, medical, automotive, aerospace and many more. Typically, customers producing medium to high-end products desire a way to quickly pre-screen materials to identify the most promising solution before investing significant time in a design. Companies often look at new materials when developing a new product, fixing problems with existing products, dealing with supply chain issues or as part of cost, environment or other corporate initiatives. Regardless of the reason for exploring new materials, making the correct choice at the beginning of the process helps minimize costs.
An introductory webinar for CES Selector will be held on October 25th at 10 a.m. ET. For more information about the software, please visit the product page for CES Selector.
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