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CASE STUDY

BREAKING NEW GROUND WITH


ALTAIR SIMULATION SOLUTIONS
SUPREME INDUSTRIES ENTERS NEW PRODUCT
SEGMENTS WITH ALTAIR AND DESIGNTECH

50%
About the Customer
DesignTech Systems and Altair collaborated with India’s leading plastic manufacturer
Supreme Industries Limited to build high-quality, toughened, industry-grade plastic products.
REDUCTION IN
Established in 1942, Supreme Industries now has seven business divisions and has established
NUMBER OF
itself as a market leader in plastics manufacturing in India. PROTOTYPES
The company has forayed into different types of plastic moldings, including injection molding,

15%
rotational molding (ROTO), extrusion, compression molding, blow molding, and more.
Catering to wide industry applications, the company manufactures molded furniture, storage and
material handling products, XF films and products, performance films, industrial molded products,
protective packaging products, composite plastic products, plastic piping systems, WEIGHT REDUCTION
and petrochemicals.

Their Challenge
The plastic manufacturing industry is a highly competitive market, and to maintain its leadership
position, it’s essential for Supreme Industries to innovate and develop a new range of products for
different sectors and industries without compromising on quality, robustness, and
cost-effectiveness. They wanted to invest in proven CAE or product design analysis solutions
that could help them meet their product design, performance, and manufacturing objectives.

Simulation plays a critical role in evaluating the performance and strength of Supreme Industries’
products, as it helps them understand products’ design errors and vulnerabilities. When these
issues are addressed at the early stages in the design cycle, it curtails costs and development time, Try Product Today:
and improves product quality, durability, and performance. Altair® HyperWorks®

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Some Supreme Industries’ products must sustain weight in tons. These products need a
ribbing structure that fortifies their strength so they can endure these heavy loads.
Most of the manufacturing at the company takes place using injection molding techniques,
which makes it difficult to manufacture thick ribs – this causes constraints in the ribs’ designs.

Some of their products are also used in the packaging industry, where products must sustain
heavy loads incurred due to drops and heavy impacts. In both cases, using mathematical
formulae to calculate the complex ribbing structure or the behavior of a product is difficult.
In today’s markets, product design must be validated and companies must be confident about
products’ quality and durability before launching them into the market. Manhole cover having rated capacity
of 3.5 Ton (Structural Analysis:
Stress Plot)
Our Solution
Supreme Industries relied upon the Altair® HyperWorks® CAE suite of solutions, especially
Altair® OptiStruct® and Altair® Radioss®, for design optimization and structural static linear
and non-linear analysis.

With these solutions, they could perform structural analysis and try different iterations of
ribbed structures and thicknesses to achieve their goals. With these studies, the company could
ensure their product design had the strength and capabilities to meet functional requirements,
while also reducing the product’s weight and manufacturing cost. They could also design other
complex ribbed structures and add newer products to their offering, allowing them to enter new
sectors and industries. These products include: Septic Underground Tank
(Sewage water pressure structural
Manhole Cover analysis: Deflection plot)
The product was required to sustain a weight exceeding five tons. In addition, another major
challenge was to manufacture it using composite glass fiber plastic material without increasing its
weight, all while keeping its thickness at or lower than five millimeters without compromising its
quality, robustness, or function. Identifying the right thickness for the end function was a crucial
aspect of the project. To achieve these goals, Supreme Industries used OptiStruct for design
optimization across topology, topography, size, and shape to check optimum material distribution
for the given load conditions. This helped the company arrive at an optimum thickness for the
manhole cover while meeting all design constraints.

Defense Drop Box


Plastic drop boxes are used by the defense sector to protect goods like missiles and explosives; Septic Underground Tank (Sewage
these boxes generally have a weight of up to 500 kilograms and a drop height of about one water pressure structural analysis :
meter. The drop box must be secure so all internal material remains undamaged. Radioss helped Stress plot)

Supreme Industries design a plastic drop box that could withstand impact loads while keeping
its cargo unharmed.

Septic Underground Tank


Septic underground tanks face heavy internal pressures, which can cause tank deformation.
Using OptiStruct, Supreme Industries could analyze various ribbing patterns and reduce
deformation to as low as 40%. In addition, OptiStruct helped the company design a change
in the internal ribbing structure, which further reduced deformation.

Results Defense box used for transport of


missile and bomb parts
Thanks to HyperWorks, Supreme Industries reduced the manhole cover’s weight by 15%.
This helped them place their products more competitively in the market. Another major
benefit the company gained from Altair solutions was consistent reduction in the time it took
to develop and design products. This not only makes them more competitive, it also gives With Altair’s multiphysics
engineers the confidence to design complex design structures without worrying about simulation platform,
time to market. Supreme Industries reduced
Manufacturing and making physical prototypes for testing critical products under different the time and cost spent on
conditions and circumstances increases the time and cost of manufacturing, and in some cases, designing and developing different
it becomes extremely difficult to derive results using prototypes. products. For all of these products,
the company reduced the number
Supreme Industries is looking to explore more Altair solutions for various applications and of prototypes by 50% thanks to
products, including Altair® AcuSolve® for fluid flow analysis and OptiStruct for structural Altair’s solutions.
optimization for bathroom fittings such as taps, faucets, and showers.

To learn more, please visit altair.com

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