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Altair Engineering

 
Hoover's Profile: Altair Engineering, Inc.
 
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Altair Engineering, Inc.
1820 E. Big Beaver Rd.
Troy, MI 48083-2031
MI Tel. 248-614-2400
Fax 248-614-2411

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.altair.com
 Employees: 700

Founded in 1985, Altair Engineering is a product design consulting and technology company that provides software and services to clients which have included Boeing, Caterpillar, Ford Motor, General Electric, Motorola, Nokia, Procter & Gamble, Whirlpool, and the US Departments of Defense and Energy. The company operates through three primary business lines: product design and development, commercial software, and enterprise process management. Its software applications include business intelligence and engineering and design tools, as well as workload management products.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2007:
Sales: $44.6M

Officers:
President and CEO: James R. (Jim) Scapa
COO; President, solidThinking: Robert B. Little
COO: Thomas M. (Tom) Perring

Competitors:
Dassault
MSC.Software
Siemens PLM Software

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Altair Engineering, Inc.
Type Private
Founded Troy, Michigan, USA (1985)
Headquarters Troy, Michigan, USA
Key people Jim Scapa, Founder, President and CEO
Jim Brancheau, CTO
Tom Perring, COO
Industry CAE Software, Product Design and Development Services, and Grid Computing
Products See complete products listing.
Employees 1200 (FY 2007)
Website www.altair.com

Altair Engineering is a product design and development, engineering software and grid 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.

Contents

Organization

Altair is divided into three business divisions: Product Design (PD), HyperWorks CAE Software (HW), and PBS Grid Computing (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-lienar)
  • MotionSolve, multibody solver
  • HyperMesh, HyperView, HyperGraph - CAE pre & post processing
  • HyperStudy - Perform DOE studies

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.

During the 2008 economy crisis, Altair started a program to offer free training on its product for unemployed persons in Michigan[1].

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 on 5 December 2008. 

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