Altair engineering
| Altair Engineering, Inc.
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| legal form | Inc. |
| ISIN | US0213691035 |
| founding | 1985 |
| Seat | Troy, Michigan , USA |
| management | Jim Scapa, Founder, CEO Jim Brancheau, CTO Brett Chouinard, COO |
| Number of employees | 1500+ (2012) |
| Branch | software |
| Website | www.altair.com |
Altair Engineering is a product design and development company, CAE manufacturer and grid computing software manufacturer. Altair was founded by Jim Scapa, George Christ and Mark Kistner in 1985 in Troy, Michigan. The company's headquarters are in Troy, Michigan , with further regional representations in America, Europe and Asia.
Altair Engineering develops the CAE software suite HyperWorks CAE. The following products and services are available at Altair: Product Design (PD), HyperWorks CAE Software (HW), PBS Grid Computing (PBS) and HiQube BI. The X-Gene GT Avant electric car was developed in cooperation with the X-Gene studio and other companies and was first presented in 2011.
history
Altair was founded in 1985. In 1990 the company released HyperMesh software. In 1994 they received the "Technology of the Year" award for the OptiStruct product.
In 2011 the company ACUSIM Software and its product AcuSolve were bought. It is a CFD solver. In the same year BUSolution was published.
Another company acquisition was made in 2014 when EM Software & Systems and its branches in the USA, Germany and China were integrated into the company. This expanded its portfolio to include electromagnetic simulation software.
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Teresko: Altair Computing Inc. Troy, Mich. . IndustryWeek. December 19, 1994. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012. Retrieved on December 2, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aabaar.htm
- ↑ Keith Barry: New Hybrids Will Pump it Up . Wired. November 9, 2011. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.industryweek.com/articles/series-hybrid_hydraulic_transit_bus_promises_fuel_cost_savings_25552.aspx (link not available)
- ↑ http://www.deskeng.com/de/altair-em-software-systems-complete-deal/
- ↑ http://www.feko.info/about-us/News/altair-and-em-software-systems-s . a.-close-deal
- ↑ http://www.emss.co.za/history.php