Altair and Rolls-Royce Germany have signed a memorandum of understanding on artificial intelligence and engineering. The development of their collaboration will enable Altair to contribute to the company’s business transformation by reducing development time and costs, while improving product performance and quality and benefiting from the engineering, testing and design of Rolls-Royce aerospace engines.
More and more industries around the world are looking for ways to leverage data analysis and AI to significantly increase revenues, reduce costs and reduce risk. Companies such as Rolls-Royce Germany have already begun revolutionary digital transformations and have identified engineering as a key area. In particular, the collaboration with Altair will focus on structural analysis and testing, including the exploitation of large amounts of historical data on products and services from disparate sources. The objective is to generate new use cases by leveraging AI-led engineering and thus generate more significant commercial value.
“As a pioneer in the convergence of data analysis and engineering, it is natural for Altair to collaborate with Rolls-Royce Germany, an organization that sees the power of technology and the potential of AI to change the business game,” said James R. Scapa, founder and CEO of Altair.
“The demand for easy to use AI and Machine Learning tools with little or no coding, but that remain flexible has never been greater. It is an honour to be the supplier of choice for technology that will help Rolls-Royce Germany to grow its business while allowing our data analysis solutions to evolve.
The Altair and Rolls-Royce Germany collaboration will cover a wide variety of use cases, including the application of data science to the processing of large amounts of engineering test data, which could lead to a significant reduction in the number of sensors required for engine design. This single use case has the potential to reduce recurring costs by several million Euros.
“We share a common vision on the convergence of AI and engineering that should lead to significant positive commercial results. Altair has unique expertise in this area and best-in-class low coding data analysis technology. This collaboration will enable us to bridge the gap between engineering and data science, and allow our engineers to truly be engineers, focused on the benefits of Machine Learning and AI from our data,” said Peter Wehle, Head of Innovation and R&T at Rolls-Royce Deutschland.
“This collaboration will help democratize our data analysis, enabling our engineers to make better day-to-day data decisions and transform our business and products. »
Rolls-Royce has been using AI and advanced data analysis at the heart of its business for more than 20 years, particularly in its engine health monitoring department and in manufacturing. It recently announced two major advances in AI ethics and reliability, which it will publish on its website later this year, free of charge.
As a first step, Rolls-Royce Germany will leverage Altair Knowledge Works™ – a collaborative end-to-end data analysis platform – to enable engineers to apply Machine Learning (ML) methods using simulation, test, manufacturing and operational data. Knowledge Works is designed to enable users to easily and efficiently access disparate data sources and formats in a low or no-code environment; transform data; use it to build ML models; and share discovered knowledge across the enterprise.
Translated from L’analyse des données et l’IA au coeur du partenariat entre Altair et Rolls-Royce Allemagne
