Phone Manufacturer Chooses Altair HyperWorks Unlimited for CAE

Vertu, an English luxury mobile phone manufacturer, has chosen and deployed Altair‘s complete range of technology and services through the HyperWorks Unlimited (HWUL) appliance.

HWUL is a fully managed private cloud solution for CAE, with HPC (high performance computing) hardware and software, with unlimited use of all Altair engineering applications.

Vertu is using CAE methods in its development process to replace some physical testing of phone prototypes with Altair’s programs. With ProductDesign, the company has developed a drop test simulation process that is fully integrated into the HWUL solution. After multiple tests, a spreadsheet based summary is generated to review component and system-level performance for post-processing. This process has allowed Vertu to efficiently identify potential impact damage and make design decisions, the company states.

“Simulation is key to our product development process, and Altair’s HWUL appliance and RADIOSS solver have offered a far more efficient means of deployment,” said Stewart Dewey, finite element analysis (FEA) specialist, Vertu. “The level of accuracy on results has been improved along with significant time savings. So far we have seen up to 50% improvement in efficiency of processing times, and we expect this to improve further with continued use of the software. HWUL offers one of the most competitively priced packages on the market and is a solution which we can develop and scale in the future. With the unlimited usage ability, we are able to explore the full HyperWorks offering.”

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.