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Simulating the Real World

A trip to MPH and Top Gear Live

My current blog series titled “So, you want to predict component temperatures do you?” is a big chunky theme that...

Corporate Blog

Virtual Commissioning of Manufacturing Lines

Did you ever think about how a whole manufacturing line is set up on the shop floor? And wonder why it is running smoothly and at an optimum in regards to throughput, reliability, flexibility, safety...

Embedded Software

Droids dropping like bombs

As I am off on a week’s vacation in the sun, I thought it would be interesting to ask a...

Corporate Blog

PLM & Sand Art at PLM Connection Greater China

My colleague Branco Liu sent me some highlights from our recent PLM Connection Greater China event. Here is a pretty cool video of a sand art artist. At the end of the video, the artist spells out in...

Embedded Software

Parlez vous Fortran?

When I first started programming, the only language available to me was Fortran. I punched cards with my code and...

Simulating the Real World

So, you want to predict component temperatures do you? Part IV

Next stop on the avenue of package thermal modelling is 2 resistor CTMs (compact thermal models). Specifically Theta_jb and Theta_jc,...

Embedded Software

Palindromic numbers

Even though I have not studied mathematics very deeply, I have always liked numbers. I like the way that they...

Simulating the Real World

So, you want to predict component temperatures do you? Part III

The simplest of compact thermal models (CTMs) is a one resistor type. Of these the most widely quoted is Theta_ja...

Corporate Blog

Designing and Optimizing Factories

The Plant Simulation User Conference 2009 was a very interesting conference with 110 customers participating and 10 of them presenting the usage and success they achieve with Plant Simulation. Additi...