Case Study: Ford Motor Company achieves 50% reduction in modeling effort and faster, more accurate battery simulations with Altair RADIOSS

Ford Battery Group Adopts RADIOSS Cut Methodology

Ford Motor Company needed to reconcile two conflicting CAE requirements: full-vehicle teams required a simplified battery representation to get overall vehicle behavior, while the battery core team required highly detailed, cell-level models (growing to millions of elements) to predict internal robustness. To address slow cycle times and limited design exploration, Ford adopted Altair’s RADIOSS cut methodology (sub-modeling) to balance fidelity and performance.

Altair implemented a workflow in RADIOSS where a full-vehicle run uses a simplified battery, then displacement and force histories are extracted at a defined interface and applied to a detailed battery sub-model for rapid, high-fidelity iterations. The result for Ford Motor Company was a 50% reduction in modeling effort, improved accuracy where needed, faster turnaround for design exploration, and lightweight interface data sharing across teams — delivering measurable performance and collaboration gains.

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