Modelling and simulation software [MapleSim] from Canadian firm MapleSoft is playing a critical role in the design and modelling of RoboThespian: a next generation, full size humanoid dynamic robot that can walk, run, jump and sing.
Energy Sciences - a subsidiary of Iwasaki Electric Corporation - designs and builds state-of-the-art energy curing systems for the packaging industry.
Energy Sciences originally purchased VisSim/Embedded Controls Developer to design the controller for a highspeed labeling machine for such items as ice cream and orange juice containers.
Maplesoft (Ontario, Canada) has announced its collaboration with Engineered Arts Limited, a company that designs and produces the revolutionary RoboThespian™ robots. The current RoboThespian is a life-sized, programmable, humanoid robot designed to be used for entertainment and communication. It can talk and sing – and even recite Shakespeare. The next ...
The sensitive and safety-critical nature of the work conducted by Babcock International makes it particularly important that the performance and calibration status of the instruments used in the lab is closely monitored. For many years, the lab has relied on Quality Analyst statistical process control (SPC) software from Northwest Analytics ...
Dr James Andrew Smith, Electrical and Biomedical engineering professor at Ryerson University, Toronto, uses MapleSim to deliver an "inductive approach" to learning, allowing students to explore systems and derive equations from the behaviours they observe.
Dr Sam Willis, a maritime historian and archaeologist, and author of nine books and numerous articles, considers EndNote a 'must-have' piece of time-saving software for personalised, scholarly research.
Recently, faculty and staff at the University of Guelph embarked upon an experiment to statistically determine the impact on students of using Maple T.A.
Maplesoft™ (Waterloo, Canada) has announced the release of a new product that allows engineers to integrate high-performance, multidomain system models from MapleSim into B&R Automation Studio. Available from Adept Scientific (Letchworth, Herts), the MapleSim Connector for B&R Automation Studio is the result of a partnership between Maplesoft and B&R, the ...
The world’s most popular engineering calculation software, Mathcad, is now available in a free version. For a 30 day trial period, new Mathcad Express gives you all the capabilities of the full Mathcad Prime 2.0 version. After that it reverts to limited functionality in perpetuity.
Mathcad Express gives users the ability ...
Scotland's youngest distillery is using Quality Analyst software from Northwest Analytics to maintain rigorous control over some of the drinks industry's most traditional products.
Measurement Computing Corporation (Norton, MA), the value leader in data acquisition, has announced the release of the WiFi-501-TP temperature data logging sensor.
Available from Adept Scientific (Letchworth, Herts), the WiFi-501-TP is a WiFi-based temperature data logging sensor with thermistor probe which measures the temperature of the environment in which the probe ...
Preserving the pillars of a company's success: Mathcad enables The Rambøll Group to maintain and share intellectual capital - including the engineering calculations at the core of every project.
Mathcad is used at GKN Aerospace Engineering Services by stress engineers who produce calculations and product designs that are shared among customers to check that calculations and designs are free of errors and parts are ready to be manufactured.
MAN B&W Diesel AG is the world's leading developer of diesel engines for ship propulsion units and stationary power supply systems. In less than two years, Man B&W Diesel developed the world's fastest-selling, medium-weight marine engine, the L21/31 using Mathcad calculation software.
With offshore oil and gas drilling rigs costing millions a day, their crews need to ensure they get the job done as quickly as possible.
That job involves assembling the thousands of meters of flexible pipe that make up a drill string, and doing so safely and consistently on a remote ...
Stanwell Corporation, a leading Australian electricity generation company, used VisSim to model their entire coal-fired, steam turbine generator plant, and then used the VisSim model to commission the controllers before going live on the plant.
Simulation tool lets humanoid robot run and jump
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