Smart Molding International 3-2021

16 newsfeed smart_molding international 3/2021 Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global technology com - pany providing solutions in simulation, high-perfor - mance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI), announced that PART Engineering, an industry- renowned computer-aided engineering (CAE) simula - tion services and software company, has become an Altair channel partner for the DACH region. PART Engineering has been part of the Altair Partner Alliance (APA) since 2012 and will now also sell and support Altair’s entire structural and injection molding simulation portfolio. Founded in 1999, the com - pany specializes in structural finite element analysis (FEA). Based on many years of ex - perience utilizing Altair’s sim - ulation tools and cultivating industry expertise through its work with customers across industries, PART Engineering is well-positioned to fully represent Altair and its solu - tions in the DACH region. “We are pleased to wel - come PART Engineering, an experienced company with an excellent reputation in the automotive and engineering industries, to the Altair chan - nel partner program,” saidUl - rich Bruder, Altair managing director in Germany. “With more than two decades of experience in the simulation of plastic products, PART Engineering understands the requirements of the industry and offers a comprehensive range of solutions. Adding Altair to its solutions offer - ings will empower custom - ers to access the industry’s most advanced, high-fidelity, and specialized technologies, from manufacturing simula - tion and optimization to the analysis of fiber composite structures and the conver - gence of CAE with artificial intelligence.” By reselling Altair’s soft - ware, PART Engineering will offer solutions for the en - tire CAE process chain. This is especially relevant for its focus area, plastic products, as the final characteristics of molded parts are heavily influenced by the applied manufacturing process. As part of the APA, the com - pany ’s own specialized solutions, Converse and S-Life, are fully integrat - ed into and interact with Altair’s software solutions. Thanks to the breadth and depth of Altair’s solutions set, including more than 100 APA applications, PART Engineering will now offer solutions for other specialty requirements. “Being a successful part - ner in the APA for more than nine years combined with our industry expertise made the expansion to sell Altair solutions a natural and logi - cal next step to strengthen our market reach and offer - ing,” said Wolfgang Korte, managing director, PART Engineering. “We are con - fident that the collabora - tive efforts between PART Engineering and Altair com - bined with our application and industry expertise in the plastics segment will propel both organizations to gain considerable market share in the DACH region.” PART Engineering will continue to be an important member of the APA and, in addition to the close co - operation with Altair, will maintain and expand the interfaces of its own soft - ware to other CAE software providers. Altair www.altair.com PART Engineering named Altair channel partner Altair is a global technology company that provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of simulation, high-perfor - mance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI). Altair enables organizations across broad industry segments to com - pete more effectively in a connected world while creating a more sustainable future.