GM Mexico Technology Center needed to shorten development cycles by enabling designers to perform structural analysis independently, without relying on CAE specialists. Traditional FEM tools required extensive geometry cleanup and meshing, slowing evaluation of complex automotive components. By adopting Altair SimSolid, GM engineers ran simulations directly on CAD assemblies in minutes. Accuracy correlated up to 97% with legacy solvers while reducing analysis time by 75%, with most savings coming from eliminated preprocessing. Designers explored more iterations earlier in the design cycle, accelerating time to market and improving decision-making across multiple vehicle programs.

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