Altair Partners with Ziegler-Instruments to Provide Clients with a Comprehensive Solution to Accurately Predict Product Squeak and Rattle Noise

Altair's Squeak and Rattle solution decreases the time engineers take to run squeak and rattle analysis by as much as 80%.

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Oct 20, 2015, 10:00 ET

TROY, Mich., Oct. 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Altair announced that it has partnered with Ziegler-Instruments to enhance its Squeak and Rattle Director (SnRD), making it the most advanced and comprehensive solution on the market to predict and eradicate squeak and rattle phenomena in vehicles, aircraft and other products sensitive to Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH). The addition of Ziegler-Instruments' PEM material database gives Altair's SnRD clients access to the results for over 11,000 individual stick and slip phenomena for different materials pairs.

The SnRD is a combination of highly customized software and automated processes that are implemented by Altair's service division, Altair ProductDesign in conjunction with a client's engineering team and testing teams. The solution creates a comprehensive, efficient and semi-automated approach to determine relative component displacements in the time domain that can lead to undesired squeaking and rattling in products. By identifying potential areas of concern in the early stages of design, the overall design quality can be improved and significant cost and time savings can be realized.

Uniquely designed to be deeply integrated within a company's existing work environment and processes by the Altair ProductDesign team, the SnRD offers a comprehensive methodology to streamline the entire squeak and rattle simulation workflow process from model creation to results visualization.

The benefits of the update include:

Create squeak and rattle interfaces requiring less input and less interaction
Easily manipulate interfaces after creation, using fields in Review Panel
Visually inspect squeak and rattle interfaces and their respective data entry
Understanding the root cause of issues
Calculate modal sensitivity
Provide active feedback

"The Squeak and Rattle Director allows us to input different data, like design and manufacturing tolerances, in order to improve the output of our analysis and therefore have more valuable inputs to the project," said Marcelo Starling Braga, NVH Coordinator, FIAT Brazil.

The SnRD is ideally suited to companies that serve markets where quality and value are tightly coupled with the perceptions of Squeak and Rattle. The SnRD also enables engineers to identify risk areas for squeak and rattle from the earliest development phase to correlation and test support, decreasing the time spent performing S&R analysis by up to 80%.

"We're very happy to be able to partner with Ziegler-Instruments and bring its hugely valuable PEM database to our clients," said Doron Helfman, Vice President of Enterprise Solutions, Altair. "Squeak and rattle noise has such a huge effect on the perceived quality of a product so has become a real area of focus for engineering teams across industry. We are excited to enhance our solution and to work alongside more companies wanting to accurately predict and eliminate the problem."

A global webinar will be hosted by Altair and Ziegler Instruments on Thursday, October 29^th at 10am ET (3pm GMT, and 4pm CET), to further discuss the uses and benefits of the newly improved Squeak and Rattle Director, as well as the value of the Altair and Ziegler collaboration. For more information about the solution, register for the webinar: Using Altair's Squeak and Rattle Director with Ziegler's Database Integration.

About Ziegler Instruments

ZINS Ziegler Instruments GmbH offers Systems and Services for Squeak & Rattle, Annoying Noises, Touch Haptics and for Vibration and Noise Control is a trusted partner to the automotive industry. Ziegler improves the quality and perceived quality of the products for our customers, while provide outstanding features that create incentives to buy. With a worldwide network, Ziegler inspires trust, reliability, and partnership assisting with equipment, services and training. For more information, visit: www.ziegler-instruments.eu/en/

About Altair

Altair is focused on the development and broad application of simulation technology to synthesize and optimize designs, processes and decisions for improved business performance. Privately held with more than 2,600 employees, Altair is headquartered in Troy, Michigan, USA and operates more than 45 offices throughout 24 countries. Today, Altair serves more than 5,000 corporate clients across broad industry segments. To learn more, please visit www.altair.com.

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