Weight Analytics 2025 Release Notes

Weight & Balance Engineering, also known as Mass Properties Engineering, is the technical discipline which refers to the prediction, determination, management and tracking of the weight, Center of Gravity, and Moment of Inertia for a new product.

The highlights of Altair's Weight Analytics are:
  • From WA version 2024 onwards, Altair's Weight Analytics manages Cost values as per Weight and Balance, becoming Altair's Weight Analytics (WA). The cost is defined as a vector of values such as Manpower, Material, Transportation, and so on, which contributes to the Total Cost associated to product structure nodes.
  • Incorporates the weight and balance information in the design and development process. WA manages the entire Weight and Balance (W&B) process, empowering engineering and management teams to control and ensure that the W&B attributes meet the program requirements.
  • The Cost elements are horizontally rolled up to determine the Total Cost, and then participate in the vertical roll-up, determining both elementary and Total Cost along the entire Bill of Material.
  • Enables faster decision-making for Engineers and Executives. The solution manages the entire Weight and Balance process in a single, open architecture throughout the entire design process from Concept to Development, Engineering, and Manufacturing.
  • Deployed as a common weight management tool across the enterprise, WA enables faster and accurate decision-making with an on-demand access to visualize, analyze and predict the W&B during the entire Product Life Cycle (PLC).
  • Highly configurable to work seamlessly within any IT environment. Its open architecture streamlines the time intensive and repetitive tasks associated with data consolidation and provides accurate information when needed.
  • Simplifies the entire design process of complex products such as helicopters, ships, rockets, transportation vehicles, and so on in terms of controlling all the weights of different components. This also includes the COGs and inertia properties considering different value maturity levels such as: estimated, calculated, weighed, and so on.
  • Weights, CoGs, and Moment of Inertia will be summed using a roll-up algorithm considering maturity level in a priority order.
  • With powerful Business Intelligence embedded into WA, you can visualize several data dimensions quickly, and slice and dice data easily and intuitively using Altair's Panopticon.

Weight Analytics Capabilities

WA has the following core capabilities:

  • Reduced time for decision making that can be utilized for analyzing the information and provides solutions for W&B targets.
  • Run 'what-if' scenarios that can lead to actionable information for key decision making.
  • Visualize, analyze, and predict risk and opportunities at any point in time during the PLC.
  • Track and control the weight and maturity of the product.
  • Dramatic time reduction for data consolidation owing to the direct or indirect connection to your company’s PLM systems.
  • Consistency of information across the enterprise.
  • Standard reporting capabilities.
  • Customization based on independent plug-in architecture.

For more information about WA, see https://altair.com/altair-weight-analytics.

Key Features

Following are the key features in Altair's WA version 2025.

New Home Page and Right-click options

WA now has a new Home page with the addition of right-click functionality to expand, collapse, and operate on structure nodes.

New Operators for Advanced Search

The Advanced Search functionality is now improved with parentheses and additional new operators such as “IS DUPLICATED” and “ORDER BY”.

Part Attachment options

In addition to attaching files to any level of a Program, Version, Variant, or Product, WA now allows you to attach files to single part as well.

Bug Fixes

Following are the fixes for issues in WA version 2025.
  • The scroll bar position during navigation was retained.
  • Multiple part modification was enabled.
  • Mass and Cost maturity chart was fixed.
  • Errors in the editing of Cost values were fixed.
  • Mission: Creating items and Product kit were included.
  • Instability in Concept > Risk & Opportunities was fixed.
  • Errors in the conversion of F-BoM to E-BoM in Concept were fixed.

Known Issues

Following are the known issues in WA version 2025.
  • The 3D Scatter plot in the CoG tab may have performance issues related to number of plotted points. It is recommended to visualize one assembly point only to expedite rotation.
  • The Advanced Search shows some performance issues in speed in case of queries returning a huge number of rows especially while using the 'IS DUPLICATED' operator.