APWorks, Altair Enter Service Partnership

APWorks and Altair have entered a partnership for additive manufacturing. A key area of collaboration is going to be joint, end-to-end consulting by Altair and APWorks to help companies explore the potential of additive manufacturing for their own applications through pilot projects and technology demonstrators.

The offering will include screening and identification of applications, the redesign of components, quantification of potential levels of product performance improvements, printing and physical testing of prototypes up to serial production, and cost analysis and business case preparation, a company press release says.

"This partnership will help us to support our customers even better," said Joachim Zettler, Managing Director Airbus APWorks GmbH. "Our know-how in additive manufacturing and Altair's expertise in Simulation Driven Design are a perfect combination to help customers truly benefit from the advantages of additive manufacturing. In our "Light Rider" project topology optimization and the advances in additive layer manufacturing have allowed us to realize the bionic design we had in mind for the motorcycle, without having to make any major changes. This led to the revolutionary and lightweight design we envisioned for this project."

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