Altair W&B

Altair’s Weight Analytics solution empowers Engineers and Executives to make better decisions, faster, by managing the entire weight and balance process. This open architecture solution can be highly configured to visualize, analyze and predict properties and other metrics at any point in the product life cycle.

Weight Analytics can provide a standalone repository for your Mass Properties information or it can be used to augment your existing system. In either scenario, the web-based interface allows the user to monitor and analyze Key Performance Indicators (KPI) such as mass, center of gravity and Moments of Inertia. In addition to these common metrics, Weight Analytics can also track and manage Risks/Opportunities as well as quantify program uncertainties at the part, system or program level.

Develop Cost-Effective, High-quality Products Faster

With WA, users can manage partial and incomplete data that impedes product development while attaining data traceability and consistency throughout the product life cycle.
WA also lets users overcome slow data consolidation from legacy systems. By streamlining time-consuming repetitive tasks associated with data stream integration and synchronization, WA uses business analytics principles to increase data quality and improve process control.
Additionally, WA runs better, faster what-if analyses. It eliminates slow calculations, unreliable reporting, and lack of standardization by capturing and comparing system alternatives – Bill of Materials (BOM) comparison – to determine optimal, high-fidelity system configurations. With it, users can slice and dice huge data sets using business intelligence (BI) tools.
Lastly, WA reduces risk by forecasting and accounting for risks and opportunities at product launch and predicting W&B during the entire product lifecycle (PLC).

Integrated Weight Control Approach

Innovation processes for large and complex manufactured goods involve a massive amount of data, organized in streams coming from the manufacturing floor, the engineering department, and the supply chain, as well as many other internal and external sources. The degree of control over these processes depends on the robustness of the continuous integration among these data streams, which is secured only when integration protocol are standardized and run on a regular and possibly automatic basis.
WA provides a common, integrated environment so users can manage and monitor product weight from the outset of product concept development. WA’s functional approach quickly compares different options – including competitors’ products – and constitutes a standard reference for product structures.

Decision-making Data Always at your Fingertips

WA provides consistent, transparent data, standardized and automated workflows, and tools that support accurate decision-making and analysis. These tools utilize best-in-class methods from the business analytics industry and provide:

• Quick, reliable, and ever-current product status overview
• Powerful business analytics (BA) tools that analyze and compare BOMs composition and attributes that help users decide how to minimize risk and optimize performance
• A way to manage, coordinate, and consolidate inputs to the design process (based on the functional view approach) even when inputs are coming from several internal or external stakeholders/suppliers

In summary, Weight Analytics:

• Supports Weight and Balance engineering over all phases of product life cycle.
• Manages/compares functional and BoM views in any phase of the PLC – start where you want.
• Accommodates forecasting weight bandwidths, risks and opportunities.
• Analyzes what-if scenarios throughout the entire PLC.
• Deeply embedded analytics enable selfdriven data exploration and informed decisions based on KPI’s.
• Automates data retrieval and aggregation from multiple data sources with secure access management.
• Creates a secure collaboration by providing controlled access inside the company and with partners/suppliers.