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Stanley Black & Decker Enhances Design Innovation with Altair HyperWorks Unlimited
Applicable Industries
- Electrical Grids
- Equipment & Machinery
Applicable Functions
- Maintenance
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Tamper Detection
Services
- Hardware Design & Engineering Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Stanley Black & Decker (SBD), a global provider of hand tools, power tools, and related accessories, was seeking ways to maintain a competitive edge and bring better-performing products to market faster. The company was particularly interested in optimizing the hammer mechanism design for their top-selling rotary hammers and knew they needed a computer-aided engineering (CAE)-based approach. However, the CAE-based optimization they had been using had a runtime of about three weeks, which was not sufficient to stay competitive. SBD aimed to reduce this runtime to one weekend. The team realized they needed more computational power to drive desired performance improvements, but they were concerned about the cost of high-performance computing (HPC) hardware/cores, the effort to maintain and support a complex HPC system, and the ability to fully leverage this hardware with the necessary software licenses to keep utilization high.
About The Customer
Stanley Black & Decker (SBD) is a diversified global provider of hand tools, power tools, and related accessories, mechanical access and electronic security solutions, healthcare solutions, engineered fastening systems, and more. The company delivers innovative, powerful tools that help professionals around the world build, repair, and protect the world’s most valuable things. SBD is the leader in tools and security with brands including Stanley Tools, DEWALT, Mac Tools, Porter-Cable, and more. Its products range from airport doors to residential locks and deadbolts to the hydraulic breakers that rescue trapped earthquake survivors.
The Solution
SBD considered offers from three leading HPC hardware providers but were still concerned about the additional licensing cost necessary to truly take advantage of the system. Altair introduced SBD to HyperWorks Unlimited, a fully managed HPC appliance for CAE. This turnkey appliance includes pre-configured HPC hardware and software, with unlimited use of a wide variety of Altair HyperWorks applications plus Altair PBS Works for HPC workload management. SBD engineers ran a benchmark study that proved Radioss in conjunction with Altair HyperStudy would be equivalent in accuracy and performance to the LS-DYNA/optiSLang solution they had been using. Based on the results, SBD decided to move forward with the Altair HyperWorks Unlimited solution.
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