Mechanical and Materials

Improve the performance of your products, deploy new technologies and support the energy transition.

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Given the many challenges facing businesses, innovation is more necessary than ever. Innovating to improve the performance, safety, robustness and efficiency of products, but also to reduce the environmental footprint of different industries.

ALTEN China has developed a mechanical and materials offer based on new technologies and the integration of green energy into the industrial sector. We help our customers to optimize their products in a design space that is often highly constrained, by helping them to converge on the best compromise, satisfying performance objectives that are very often in competition with each other. ALTEN makes available to its customers its perfect mastery of traditional engineering methods combined with the targeted use of cutting-edge technologies to develop more efficient products with shorter time-to-market cycles. Thanks to continuous multi-industry capitalization, we deploy best practice and expertise in the aeronautics, space, automotive, rail and engine sectors.

Designing Cutting-Edge Products While Ensuring Continuous Improvement in Design Processes, Methods, and Tools

Working methods in the mechanical engineering sector are undergoing radical change. The ongoing development of IT capacity and cross-disciplinary skills, such as data and modelling, is leading companies to adopt a systematic approach to continuous improvement. Alongside this methodical change, manufacturers must continually improve their products, to make them more efficient, more economical, greener, etc.

Mechanical engineering is a field that cuts across many industrial sectors. ALTEN China develops cutting-edge solutions for mechanical design, structural calculation and sizing, thermal and fluid calculations and materials science, and provides you with its multi-sector expertise to guarantee the performance of your products and your organization. We are committed to inventing new solutions that will best serve your business and optimize your products.

Our Expertise

Advice on setting up new design processes
To define and improve design processes  

In the consulting phase, ALTEN China helps you define the processes, methods and tools that will enable you to design your products.  This work takes a variety of forms, including helping to define technical approaches, supporting the development of new methods, or creating and optimizing design tools.  The ALTEN teams can also help you through these changes by providing training and operational support for these new methods and tools. 

Conceptualizing future products
To innovate and define the products of tomorrow 

During the concept and architecture phases, ALTEN China supports you in defining your products and helps you meet the challenges of your sector. Whether it’s decarbonizing aviation, designing factories or defining satellite constellations, ALTEN China has the expertise to guide you through your projects.

Developing today’s products
To design products for cutting-edge industries down to the last detail  

ALTEN China supports you in the development of your products. 

Product optimization
To improve existing products to optimize their performance 

During the production life cycle, ALTEN China supports you in optimizing your existing products: improving production costs and speed, maintainability or ecological sustainability.

The ALTEN teams have knowledge of the entire life cycle of products, from their design to their manufacture and use in service. For these optimization phases, ALTEN China is able to deploy “design to value” methods and Multiphysics approaches in order to define the best multi-criteria optimization compromise.

Benefits of the Offer

International teams and organizations

We work with customers in nearly twenty countries on three continents. We comply with current norms and standards for the design and development of complex systems. Our engineers are trained to take account of the specific features of these international projects.