Software
Cambridge Collaborative, Inc. develops and sells high-quality software products for noise and vibration design and prediction. Our mission as an engineering research and development company is to provide our customers with the best noise and vibration prediction technology available. We constantly strive to improve our software products by researching and developing new techniques and by increasing the accuracy of our prediction tools through analysis and comparison with test data.
Acoustic design plays an ever increasing role in the success of new products. Consumers are demanding quieter products. Inappropriate noise and vibration are often associated with poor product quality. Cambridge Collaborative has a proven track record of delivering cutting-edge acoustic solutions: our pioneering SEAM® software (Statistical Energy Analysis Software) revolutionized noise and vibration prediction when we brought it to market in the 1980s, enabling engineers and designers to identify and solve acoustic problems early in the design cycle, when design changes are still inexpensive.
Today, Cambridge Collaborative's modern software portfolio brings that same innovation to the most demanding noise-compliance challenges in industry. Our Site Acoustics ISO 9613 noise mapping software delivers precise environmental noise prediction and compliance documentation for data centers and industrial sites.
Site Acoustics
See the noise before you build the wall.
Site Acoustics turns an equipment layout into a clear, A-weighted noise map and per-receiver sound levels in seconds — on a propagation engine validated against the official ISO reference cases to ≤ 0.04 dB.
Standards-grounded
A per-octave ISO 9613-2 engine, validated against the official ISO/TR 17534-3 reference cases to ≤ 0.04 dB on the A-weighted total.
Live noise map
A colour A-weighted field with contours, legend and units, drawn over your own site-plan image — with per-receiver levels labelled on the map.
Built for iteration
Draw sources, walls, buildings, berms and receivers on a site plan; change a setting and recompute the whole field in seconds across all your CPU cores.
One file, nothing in the cloud
A project bundles geometry, spectra, settings, the site-plan picture and terrain into one portable file. Your data never leaves your machine.
Since 1975, Cambridge Collaborative has played the leading role in introducing statistical energy analysis (SEA) to industry. We recognize that SEA is an evolving technology and dedicate a significant percent of our software budget to developing and improving the SEA technology embedded in our SEAM product. We also recognize the importance of productivity and visualization tools in enabling engineers to make efficient, accurate predictions and to clearly present their predictions to customers or management. Our mission as a commercial software provider is to develop software tools that help both novice and experienced engineers do their jobs better.
In 2019, Cambridge Collaborative sold SEAM software to long time partner, Altair Engineering. The addition of SEAM® software to Altair's portfolio of simulation and solver solutions creates a more expansive, comprehensive portfolio for solving tough engineering problems.
SEAM® software will fall under the Altair HyperWorks™ platform and will be integrated with other Altair technologies like NVH Director and OptiStruct for noise and vibration analysis, and UltraFluidX to simulate noise with external aerodynamics studies.