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News Release from: Perceptive Engineering
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 May 2005
New appointment at Perceptive
Engineering
Perceptive Engineering, based in Lymm, Cheshire has announced the appointment of Dr Andy Burrows as Product Development Director
" Perceptive Engineering , based in Lymm, Cheshire has announced the appointment of Dr Andy Burrows Andy joins Perceptive Engineering as Product Development Director in May 2005 after 19 years in a variety of software and engineering roles in industries ranging from Defence to Computing
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 21 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Andy graduated from York University with a 1st Class Honours in Mathematics and later from Manchester University with a PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics.
In between these degrees he worked for GEC Avionics on radar telemetry analysis and modelling.
Following his PhD he joined the Dynamics Research Group in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Manchester, working there for 4 years on a number of projects including Airbus and Concorde ground vibration testing for BAe, vehicle sound and vibration test analysis software for the Ford Motor Company and technical authorship and consultancy for LMS.
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During this time Andy developed, with a colleague, Dr Keith Worden (now Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Sheffield University), Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm packages for use in departmental research, resulting in a number of papers.
As a founding member of the Control Technology Centre at the University of Manchester and later an employee of Predictive Control he moved into the development and maintenance of software for industrial process control.
During this 5 year period he was involved in work in Fortran, C and lately Java on a wide variety of hardware platforms, supporting amongst other things the Connoisseur package.
He was also instrumental in the porting of the Connoisseur package first to C, and then to Java for the graphical displays to allow the package to run on MS Windows.
Leaving Predictive Control following their acquisition by Siebe he joined Sun Microsystems in 1999, working initially in technical pre-sales as a performance specialist conducting competitive benchmarks, later transferring to the Sun engineering team working on the Solaris operating system (The Sun UNIX implementation), again specialising in performance issues.
During this time he gained experience of performance characteristics of a number of the competitive operating systems including HP-UX and various flavours of Linux, as well as major applications such as Oracle.
As a result of his operating system performance work he currently has a US patent submitted on System Performance Prediction.
Commenting on the appointment, David Lovett, Managing Director, said - "Andrew brings significant skills both as a mathematician and software developer.
His understanding of our core technologies combined with the high integrity software development experiences gained at Sun make him the ideal person to lead our development team.
He will be focusing initially on the enhancement of the Perceptive APC design system and supporting the modularisation of "Perceptive Solutions".
Andrew will be closely relating to the activities at the University of Manchester Control Systems Centre, integrating the new ideas, and prototypes, into our products as they become industrially proven".
Perceptive Engineering is one of a select number of companies, which exploit model based engineering techniques to achieve improvements in industrial performance.
The application of model based controllers in conjunction with Statistical Process Monitoring in a real time environment is an innovative use of two existing technologies that assist industrial manufacturers achieve improved performance.
Our product, the PerceptiveAPC suite, consists of five software packages: PerceptiveAPC Design, MonitorMV, SimulateMV, ControlMV and BatchMV.
These packages have been developed to meet the industrial requirements of our customers.
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