Case Study: Mubea achieves faster Tailor Rolled Blank optimization and reduced turnaround with Altair HyperWorks Unlimited

High Performance Computing Speeds-up Optimization Processes for Tailor Rolled Blanks at Mubea

Mubea, a global supplier and the only producer of Tailor Rolled Blanks (TRB), faced a computational bottleneck: designing and optimizing TRBs—which can save ~20% of a vehicle structure’s weight—relies on crash simulations that take 1–12 hours each, making design exploration slow and often impractical. Mubea uses Altair’s HyperWorks CAE suite and operates a local HyperWorks Unlimited (HWUL) Physical Appliance cluster, and evaluated Altair’s HWUL Virtual Appliance to address peak demand.

Altair delivered a hybrid HPC solution—HWUL Physical Appliance for on‑premises work plus HWUL Virtual Appliance deployed with AWS/Intel (configurations from 32 to 128+ cores)—so Mubea could scale compute on demand and run optimizations as they do locally. The Altair solution raised Mubea’s calculation capacity, cut turnaround time for lightweight studies “significantly,” enabled broader design exploration without long‑term hardware investment, and let Mubea handle peak project loads more quickly while retaining familiar HyperWorks workflows.

Mubea

Niklas Klinke

CAE Engineer