The Off-Highway Industry presents many exciting opportunities and challenges for simulation in the Engineering design and development process. This presentation will outline some of the products and the technical challenges in this specific industry.

The presentation will reflect on how simulation tools are currently used in the industry, how they may be used in the future and the key characteristics of the tools to meet the technical and economic challenges ahead.

Simulation-driven design changed heavy equipment product development forever, enabling engineers to reduce design iterations and prototype testing. Increasing scientific computing power expanded the opportunity to apply analysis, making large design studies possible within the timing constraints of a program. Now engineering data science is transforming product development again.

Augmented simulation features inside Altair® HyperWorks® are accelerating the design decision process with machine learning (ML). The power of ML-based AI-powered Engineering combined with physics-based simulation-driven design leveraging the latest in high-performance computing is just being realized.

Create detailed hydraulic circuits & actuation systems as part of your multi-disciplinary system simulations, especially for heavy machinery & agricultural equipment, in combination with multi-body systems (Altair MotionSolve®) and granular material systems (Altair EDEM®).

Truck dynamics, control system, thermal, and fatigue analyses all need to be completed when designing a new truck design. Using Altair HyperWorks, Hitachi achieves a 10% weight reduction in the main frame and rigid body, while maintaining product quality.