Multi-disciplinary System Simulation Software

Activate

What is Activate?

Activate is an open and flexible integration platform for comprehensive systems of system simulation. Based on a hybrid block diagram modeling environment for signal blocks, object oriented physical components, andelectric and electronics systems, Activate allows multiphysics analysis throughout the development cycle.

The comprehensive support of math modeling, scripting and modeling languages, facilitate the re-use and integration of existing code within the same model. Multilevel modeling, using models of adjustable complexity, tool-independent Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) standard, or co-simulation with Altair MotionSolve™ and Altair Flux™ facilitates multibody dynamics analysis for electromechanics sensors and actuator design.

Activate empowers the collaboration and closes the links between multi-disciplinary engineering that are often isolated in development silos.

Why Activate?

Holistic Assessment

Simulate the performance of your entire product, including as a system-of-systems, to better assess overall behavior as well as interactions between components and subsystems.

Better Insight, Faster

Gain an increased understanding of your product’s performance by incorporating multidisciplinary aspects in your system simulations, including coupling 1D and 3D models.

Open and Flexible

Powerful built-in functionality is further extended by the use of open standards such as Modelica and FMU. Activate complements and works well with Altair’s broad suite of software.

Key Features

Simulating at the system-level enables performance assessment of the complete product rather than only of a portion of the product.

Provides a natural modeling approach for developing today’s smart systems involving sensors, actuators, feedback, and built-in logic.

Leveraging the power of pre-defined Modelica libraries for modeling common mechanical, electrical, hydraulics, and thermal physical components.

Relying on greater levels of model abstraction enables more product-performance insight earlier (i.e., nearer the concept design stage) and rapid design exploration.

Enables true multi-disciplinary system simulation via co-simulation with MotionSolve® for controlled multi-body dynamics, with Flux for controlled motor dynamics models, etc.

Including Functional Mockup Units (FMU) enables model exchange or co-simulation connections to non-Altair tools which also support the FMI standard.