Case Study: Panasonic Ecology Systems achieves shorter development time for indoor air quality products with Altair HyperWorks

Panasonic Ecology Systems Shortens Development Time of Indoor Air Quality Products by Applying Virtual Product Validation with HyperWorks

Panasonic Ecology Systems, part of Panasonic’s Eco Solutions Company, faced unreliable and costly physical drop tests when developing indoor air quality products—prototype materials differed from mass-produced parts and trial production could force expensive die changes. To address this, the company turned to Altair’s HyperWorks suite, leveraging the RADIOSS solver alongside HyperMesh modeling and HyperView visualization to evaluate impact and contact behavior virtually at early design stages.

Using a multi-step virtual drop-test process (single components, components with attachments, assemblies and packaged products), Panasonic applied Altair’s RADIOSS analyses to identify stress concentrations, modify geometries and optimize attachments and packaging before tooling. The work cut trial- and die-related losses, shortened design and evaluation cycles, reduced material and manufacturing costs, and accelerated time to market—enabling mass production changes (such as removing a problematic packaging buffer) and widespread use of Altair HyperWorks-based drop-impact analysis in subsequent product development.

Panasonic Ecology Systems

Hironari Ogata

IAQ Business Unit Concurrent Development Team