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News Release from: Engineered Software
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 May 2007
Engineered Software celebrates 25 years
of success
With 25 years of success and offering more than ten software products and services, Engineered Software, the leading provider of fluid piping system software, is celebrating its Silver Anniversary.
In 1982, Engineered Software started creating engineer tested and approved software before personal computers were a commonality The company's flagship product soon became the world's first and most widely used Windows based fluid flow analysis software
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 18 Dec 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"It's exciting to be part of a company where you can be proud of the product you produce," said Zac Vawter, VP of Programming at Engineered Software: "The great people who work here is the reason this company is such a great success".
Engineered Software threw a party celebrating the quarter decade of on-going growth, with an anniversary surprise for their employees.
The company's history was presented and original promotional items were on display.
Even the first computer the program was written on was on display.
The original computer was an Osborne OS-1, and at only USD1,995 (in 1982 dollars), it boasted a Z-80, 8 bit 2 MHz processor with 64Kbytes of memory, two 5.25inch floppy drives, and a built in monitor.
"With the right coaxing and finesse-ing, the computer still works," said Carolyn Popp, President and Chief Technical Officer for Engineered Software, the computer's original owner: "It's in pretty good shape considering its age.
What's available now for computers is so much more user friendly".
The company founders, Carolyn Popp and Ray Hardee both agreed it was time to share the company's beginnings with the rest of the organization.
The marketing materials, yellowing newspaper clippings and dated brochures are planned for display in the company lobby, along with the old Osborne OS-1 computer.
"It's a part of our history, and people need to see where we have been to see how far we have come," said Popp: "It reminds everyone here that we're on one big team and working together towards the future.
We're getting big enough now that sometimes the company needs that reconnection".
Engineered Software designs software programmes with engineers in mind.
The programmes are designed by collaboration between computer programmers and engineers so the end product is something that is efficient and functional.
Taking cues from their customers, the company comes out with new features for their programmes every one to two years.
In fact, this attention to their customers has kept their customers coming back year after year.
The first Pipe-Flo programme sold to a customer in 1983 and they are still a customer today.
"Our customers keep coming back because we are reliable, and we have reliable software.
They never worry about whether.
the program will work and with every new version we provide features our customers asked for, so it is a symbiotic relationship," said Ray Hardee, CEO and Chief Engineer at Engineered Software: "We both have something to gain from working together".
HOW IT ALL BEGAN It all started on a cold night in 1978.
Engineer Ray Hardee was sitting at his desk on the night shift, conducting nuclear start-up with Ebasco, working with a new TI programmable calculator.
Hardee had just finished creating and entering a programme for calculating the headloss for a single pipeline, something he did quite often.
Once finished, he was amazed at how quickly the basic programme produced the answers.
He still had to look up an intermediate result in the Mooney diagram in the Crane Technical Paper 410, but it was much faster and accurate.
Hardee's only problem was that when the calculator was turned off, the programme he had created was erased.
He had to manually enter the programme each time he wanted to do a pressure drop calculation.
Naturally, Hardee wondered to himself, "When will they make something that will keep the programme?".
From there, Hardee and Popp started developing Pipe-Flo version 1, taking all the formulae in the Crane Technical Paper 410 and putting them on the computer.
The first programme had a set of tables for the pipe material, along with the valves and fittings; there were also fluid properties for water, with the ability to add your own fluids.
The programme was designed so you could create a piping system with 16 pipelines.
From this point on, programming functionality and an easy to use interface were the main priority.
The company has always focused on creating a product that is powerful yet fail proof.
The selection tool, now called Pump-Flo developed out of a feature in Pipe-Flo where the user can select specific pumps from a manufacturer's catalogue of pumps and see how it works in their piping system.
Pump-Flo is now available as a separate programme used just for selecting pumps based on user defined criteria.
The first pump manufacturer to lend their catalogue to Pipe-Flo was in 1988 and today and there are over 75 pump manufacturer's catalogues available for use in both programmes.
The web based version of Pump-Flo now has over 100,000 registered users.
Starting in 2006, Engineered Software agreed to produce, market, sell and distribute worldwide Technical Paper No 410: The Flow of Fluids through Valves, Fittings, and Pipe (TP410) from Crane Valve North America.
TP410 is the industry standard technical guide for understanding the flow of fluid through valves, pipes and fittings.
TP410 is mainly used by specifying engineers, designers and engineering students.
The book has a companion product called Flow of Fluids, that is essentially a Pipe-Flo product used for designing smaller systems.
There are now seven different Pipe-Flo programmes available based on the piping system design needs including:.
* Pipe-Flo Professional for fluid piping systems.
* Pipe-Flo Stock for pulp and paper systems.
* Pipe-Flo Compressible for compressible gas systems.
* Pipe-Flo Overtime a simulation tool that simulates how your piping system operates over a period of time.
* Pipe-Flo Software Development Kit for application developers and programmers who want to develop other software programmes for use with Pipe-Flo.
* Pipe-Flo Viewer for viewing piping system models created with the Pipe-Flo programme.
Engineered Software continues its success as it broadens its range of products and service offered.
Based on need or request, the company has strived to offer innovative products to the pump and piping system industries.
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