Altair Case Studies Harita Seating Enhances Product Quality and Reduces Lead Time with Altair Suite of HyperWorks™

	Harita Seating Enhances Product Quality and Reduces Lead Time with Altair Suite of HyperWorks™ Altair

Harita Seating Enhances Product Quality and Reduces Lead Time with Altair Suite of HyperWorks™

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Digital Twin / Simulation Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
Applicable Industries	Automotive Equipment & Machinery
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Manufacturing Process Simulation Virtual Prototyping & Product Testing
Services	Testing & Certification
Challenge	Harita Seating, a leading manufacturer of seating systems in India, was facing challenges in the homologation testing, regulations, and crash analysis for all commercial vehicle seats, bus passenger seats, and tractor & off-road seats. The company was looking for a solution that could help them reduce the total lead time, improve the quality of the components and tooling, and eliminate or reduce iterative reworking. The company was also seeking a solution that could provide new insights about the product performance and offer numerous design options. The challenge was to find a solution that could meet all these requirements without consuming any additional license. Read More
About Customer	Harita Seating is a leading manufacturer of seating systems in India, used in the automotive segments of Commercial vehicles, Tractors, Off-road vehicles, and Buses. The company is part of a 7 billion dollars TVS group and has been operational since 1988. Over the years, Harita has expanded its manufacturing locations to six locations in India and has various milestones to its credit in all the segments where it operates. All the manufacturing units are certified for ISO / TS 16949, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001. Harita also has a NABL - ISO / IEC 17025:2005 certified laboratory and a well-equipped Research & Development centre located in Hosur. Read More
Solution	Harita Seating adopted the Altair Suite of HyperWorks™ for all its CAE applications. The suite included HyperMesh™, HyperGraph™, HyperView™, HyperCrash™ for modeling & visualization, and RADIOSS™ for explicit non-linear, HyperForm™ for sheet metal forming simulation, MotionSolve™ for Multi Body Dynamics and Optimization. The Hyperworks™ simulation solution helped Harita in simulating bus, tractor, and off-road seats, verifying the design parameters, and performing the analysis before manufacturing. Altair HyperMesh™ enabled a change in process for finite element modelling of a class of bus and tractor seats, reducing cycle times. RADIOSS™ and OS-FEA were used by incorporating a nonlinear dynamic explicit solution upfront, saving in the lead time and cost of the repetitive tests. Altair Solvers provided an insight on arriving at creative non-intuitive designs rapidly and helped in providing new insights about the product performance and also numerous design options. Altair unique licensing facility helped in reducing solving time by 20% using the additional cores without consuming any additional license. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Digital Twin / Simulation

Functional Applications - Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)

Applicable Industries

Automotive

Equipment & Machinery

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Manufacturing Process Simulation

Virtual Prototyping & Product Testing

Services

Testing & Certification

Challenge

Harita Seating, a leading manufacturer of seating systems in India, was facing challenges in the homologation testing, regulations, and crash analysis for all commercial vehicle seats, bus passenger seats, and tractor & off-road seats. The company was looking for a solution that could help them reduce the total lead time, improve the quality of the components and tooling, and eliminate or reduce iterative reworking. The company was also seeking a solution that could provide new insights about the product performance and offer numerous design options. The challenge was to find a solution that could meet all these requirements without consuming any additional license.

About Customer

Harita Seating is a leading manufacturer of seating systems in India, used in the automotive segments of Commercial vehicles, Tractors, Off-road vehicles, and Buses. The company is part of a 7 billion dollars TVS group and has been operational since 1988. Over the years, Harita has expanded its manufacturing locations to six locations in India and has various milestones to its credit in all the segments where it operates. All the manufacturing units are certified for ISO / TS 16949, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001. Harita also has a NABL - ISO / IEC 17025:2005 certified laboratory and a well-equipped Research & Development centre located in Hosur.

Solution

Harita Seating adopted the Altair Suite of HyperWorks™ for all its CAE applications. The suite included HyperMesh™, HyperGraph™, HyperView™, HyperCrash™ for modeling & visualization, and RADIOSS™ for explicit non-linear, HyperForm™ for sheet metal forming simulation, MotionSolve™ for Multi Body Dynamics and Optimization. The Hyperworks™ simulation solution helped Harita in simulating bus, tractor, and off-road seats, verifying the design parameters, and performing the analysis before manufacturing. Altair HyperMesh™ enabled a change in process for finite element modelling of a class of bus and tractor seats, reducing cycle times. RADIOSS™ and OS-FEA were used by incorporating a nonlinear dynamic explicit solution upfront, saving in the lead time and cost of the repetitive tests. Altair Solvers provided an insight on arriving at creative non-intuitive designs rapidly and helped in providing new insights about the product performance and also numerous design options. Altair unique licensing facility helped in reducing solving time by 20% using the additional cores without consuming any additional license.

Impact #1	The implementation of the Altair Suite of HyperWorks™ has significantly improved the operational efficiency of Harita Seating. The company has been able to reduce the total lead time to a greater extent, which has resulted in faster delivery of products to the market. The quality of the seats and parts has also improved as the iterative reworking has been eliminated or reduced. The solution has provided new insights about the product performance and offered numerous design options, enabling the company to innovate and meet the evolving needs of its customers. The unique licensing facility of Altair has also helped the company in reducing the solving time without consuming any additional license, thereby enhancing the overall productivity.

Impact #1

The implementation of the Altair Suite of HyperWorks™ has significantly improved the operational efficiency of Harita Seating. The company has been able to reduce the total lead time to a greater extent, which has resulted in faster delivery of products to the market. The quality of the seats and parts has also improved as the iterative reworking has been eliminated or reduced. The solution has provided new insights about the product performance and offered numerous design options, enabling the company to innovate and meet the evolving needs of its customers. The unique licensing facility of Altair has also helped the company in reducing the solving time without consuming any additional license, thereby enhancing the overall productivity.

Benefit #1	Reduced cycle times by 30%
Benefit #2	Saved lead time and cost of repetitive tests
Benefit #3	Reduced solving time by 20% using additional cores without consuming any additional license

Benefit #1

Reduced cycle times by 30%

Benefit #2

Saved lead time and cost of repetitive tests

Benefit #3

Reduced solving time by 20% using additional cores without consuming any additional license

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Harita Seating Enhances Product Quality and Reduces Lead Time with Altair Suite of HyperWorks™

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