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Delivering confidence and quality faster: Sotech’s adoption of Altair® SimSolid® aligns product output with client expectations closer than ever before

Meet Sotech

Established in 1982, Sotech is a leading designer and manufacturer of engineered metal rainscreen cladding and architectural fabrications, marketed as the Optima range.

Sotech’s team works closely with architects, installers and contractors to specify rainscreen cladding solutions appropriate for each individual project. Sotech provides expert advice on the system, materials and finishes, fire safety, sustainability, design and production.

Brimmond accelerates FEA with Inventor Nastran; optimising design and engineering precision and meeting international compliance standards

Meet Brimmond

Brimmond is an engineering company that delivers innovative, integrated, and often bespoke solutions for any hydraulic, mechanical and electrical need. Brimmond’s specialist engineers evaluate each client’s requirements across the purchase, hire, repair, refurbishment or maintenance of engineered equipment. The most common sectors include energy, marine, defence, oil and gas, renewable and decommissioning.

From concept to design and through to manufacture, safety and ease of maintenance are prime considerations for Brimmond. Their engineering solutions are developed with the user in mind while also delivering a more cost effective, time efficient and safer package.

Every aspect of clients’ projects is carefully addressed, from space accessibility to operational integrity and time constraints. Brimmond supplies one of the largest marine cranes in Europe. Since the company's founding, they have provided equipment and services to a wide range of major projects, including the Queensferry Crossing. They have manufactured over 400 ATEX-approved hydraulic power units in the process.

Altair® SimSolid® enables Mecon to slash its structural analysis time by 90%.

Meet Mecon

Founded in 1997, Mecon is an engineering design and fabrication company providing turnkey solutions for organisations in, among other sectors, the steel and mining industries in northern Sweden. The company is based across two locations, Luleå and Gällivare, also in northern Sweden.

Symetri introduces Pentre Offshore Engineering to Altair SimSolid; achieving super-fast structural analysis in design

Pentre Offshore Engineering is part of the Pentre Group, formed in 1988 and now regarded as the leading manufacturer in Europe for reels, drums, spools, and ancillaries to the global wire and cable industry; any organisation involved in linear-wound products.

Innovative business decisions are supported by unique technology solutions

By designing an entire hybrid system for buses – covering everything between the fuel tank and the wheels with optimal performance of every component, Vantage Power has created a system that results in higher fuel economy, lower emissions and greater reliability than alternative systems.

Hallströms Verkstäder improves its products by reducing pressure drops and optimising flows with simulation

Hallströms is an excellent example of how simulation can be used to improve the function of a product.

Digital simulation reduces costs and shortens time from plan to product at EKOVENT

Using Simulation CFD software from Autodesk, a product’s pressure drop can quickly be simulated and verified at an early stage in that product’s development, a procedure that previously was time-consuming and expensive.