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A Surreal Presentation Ensuring Perfection
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e cannot deny the fact that our precious human world is full of complexities, confusion, and chaos. Even the thought of leading ourselves through a chaotic situation is formidable. Imagine, we are around one thousand people in a hospital and it had a wild fire. Our most common reaction will be heading to the safest place we know and save our asses. Hospital authorities will guide you through this mishap but how? Explaining every shit caution verbally to everyone is quite a task, and understanding and acting on instructions ideally in that anarchy is certainly possible on paper, but very difficult to accomplish, isn’t it? To avoid such adversities and slipups, we plan, strategize and execute. Although constructing pictureperfect strategies on paper is commendable but expecting everyone to act precisely by providing them a single paper is comical. For the reason, a bunch of people cannot virtualize the scenario by the same way. If it is about ensuring the perfection in execution then a complete understanding of situation is prerequisite. Then let’s talk about how we can ensure that… I guess by narrowing the possibilities of human error like imagining the scenario in the same way we can ate that rock. But how is it possible, right? Meet simulation. Putting into the typical words the simulation is an imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system. The surreal technologies like virtual modeling and simulation are gaining popularity amongst the business world for their revolutionary approach towards ideation and its visual capabilities. Creating a virtual imagery these technologies explain the concept with more precision and intelligibility. Simulation can be used to show the eventual real effects of alternative conditions and courses of action. The technology has changed perspectives of presentation. The act of simulating something first requires that a model be developed; this model represents the key characteristics, behaviors and functions of the selected physical or abstract system or process. The model represents the system itself, whereas the simulation represents the operation of the system over time.
Simulation is used in many contexts, such as simulation of technology for performance optimization, safety engineering, testing, training, education, and video games. Additionally, computer experiments are used to study simulation models. Simulation is also used with scientific modeling of natural systems or human systems to gain insight into their functioning, as in economics. Numerous sectors are exploring the seamless possibilities of the simulation. However, the enormously advanced industries like healthcare, education, automobile, development and training are witnessing the incalculable benefits of simulation in particular. With a vision to voyage into the amazing world of simulation Insights Success brings a distinctive edition of “The 10 Most Trusted Simulation Solution Providers 2018” which highlights the remarkable capabilities and provision of some the world’s best simulation solutions. On the cover, we have encompassed, Heartwood Inc. a US-based company specializes in virtual interactive simulations and helps to guide operations, maintenance, and field service teams to perform complex procedures faster, safer and with less errors. The firm also, supports a strong base of customers and partners including, Apple, Reynolds, Pacific Gas & Electric, Norfolk Southern, Tetra Pak, Komatsu, Audi, Sikorsky, Oshkosh and Raytheon. Further, we have featured SimScale, world’s first production-ready SaaS application for engineering simulation. It offers state-of-the-art FEA and CFD capabilities for structural, thermal and flow simulations via a standard web browser. CAE Healthcare is a leading company that offers a cuttingedge learning environment to healthcare students and professionals where they develop practical experience before treating real patients. Air Target Sweden is the leading company that describes the acoustical scoring method to measure the miss distance between a supersonic projectile or missile and a target with the scoring system that can also be used to check/verify the weapon fire control system. Simlat, provides various UAS-related simulation products, from training solutions to postsession debriefing tools and a 3D models creation system. Alelo is a leading company that offers commercial spinout of the University of Southern California and a leader in the use of artificial intelligence to transform training and education. e-Xstream Engineering is a software and engineering services company 100% focused on state-ofthe-art multi-scale modeling of complex multi-phase composites materials and structures. And GBvi, a leading company with a commitment to innovation and great customer service, to become a worldleading display products provider. So, let’s start flipping the pages of the magazine to acknowledge the firms that are simplifying the processes. Happy Reading!
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Raj Raheja CEO
Heartwood Inc.
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Heartwood Inc: Market Leaders in Virtual Interactive Training
We believe critical, complex information should be easy to follow, learn and master.
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ounded in 2007 at San Mateo, CA, Heartwood’s virtual interactive simulations and guides help operations, maintenance, and field service teams perform complex procedures faster, safer and with less errors. Its visual, 3D interactive and portable applications allow them to practice procedures on equipment virtually via web, PC, mobile, AR and VR platforms. Heartwood’s customers reduce workforce training time by up to 60% and see an ROI of up to 7x.
Magazine’s 500|5000 Fastest Growing Companies, and a “Top Simulation and Training” company. Virtual Interactive Experience Heartwood Inc. offers Virtual Interactive Training (Simulations & Guides) that allows workforce to train anytime, anywhere, on any platform. Instructional information is displayed as 3D interactive content that mirrors the real world in both ‘form’ and ‘function’. Simply put, this means it looks like the real thing, and acts like it. The 3D Interactive applications developed by the company are specifically tailored for Operations, Maintenance (O&M) & Safety. A Tech Enthusiast Raj Raheja is the CEO of Heartwood Inc. He provides a leading voice for the future of 3D Interactivity and Virtual Training technologies. He believes in meshing great technologies together and is passionate when Visual and Interactive technologies are at play. Raj co-founded Heartwood with Neil Wadhawan, and focuses on company vision, culture and new technology development.
As a market leader, Heartwood supports a strong base of customers and partners including, Apple, Reynolds, Pacific Gas & Electric, Norfolk Southern, Tetra Pak, Komatsu, Audi, Sikorsky, Oshkosh and Raytheon. Leading brands in Manufacturing, Utilities, Energy, Railroad, Heavy Equipment, Automotive, Aerospace and Defense leverage its virtual interactive simulations and guides every day. It is recognized as one of Inc.
“I believe in using technology to make jobs easier, faster and safer. And I also believe that we should do it responsibly, not just because it can be implemented. For example, tacking on a VR headset onto an employee with no other training access point and roadmap thought, would just be a science project”, states Raj. He believes, “Our company, based in Silicon Valley – a region committed to innovation – has developed a way to help technical workforce learn complex tasks with 3d interactive technology that is as simple as using any other app – on their tablet, PC, web browser, and yes, AR and VR as well. Training happens in a classroom, on
a plant floor, in between job sites and 2 minutes before the task sometimes. We need to be there for the worker all the way.” Raj has been awarded ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ and featured in – Inc. & Entrepreneur magazines, San Francisco Business Times, Silicon Valley Business Journal and more. He has been an invited speaker at Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Autodesk, Unity and more. He intensely writes about his vision for the industry, the company, his team and founding principles on Heartwood’s well-read blog. Personalized Training Approach Raj has mentioned a study published by Deloitte In 2015, which states that around two million manufacturing jobs would go unfilled between 2018 and 2028, with a potential economic impact of 2.5 trillion. Skilled technical trade positions will go empty because companies will not find trained workers to fill them. However, he believes that at the same time, there is an emerging trend in learning that could be a silver bullet – the shift from Instructor-led training to Student-centered learning. The one-size fits all approach to training may
Train Faster, Smarter with our ‘Learn-by-doing’ Apps.
no longer be sufficient. Many companies are moving from “chalk and talk” style delivery to more efficient and effective hybrid learning programs. Unfortunately, sometimes that still results in “Death by PowerPoint”, just that it happens online. There is a lot of reading and seeing, but not much doing. This is where Heartwood steps in. Its 3D Interactive Virtual Training apps allow workforce to practice procedures anywhere, anytime - before they arrive on their shift. This gets them into peak production mode faster and decreases costly ramp-up training. Now workers can learn to operate and maintain equipment using engaging visual apps. There is less need to fly new hires in for training. There’s consistency worldwide. And it’s all done in less time and at scale — so employees are in the field or on the floor working smarter, sooner. Training on Field The initial focus of Heartwood was to fill the gap between costly live training and ineffective passive eLearning. At the core, it existed as a Training & Simulation company. After a decade of Enterprise training deployments in Fortune 1000 companies, the company learned that there is a ton of untapped ROI beyond the classroom or training environment – it’s in the field. It was reducing learning times and travel costs for training sessions, making the investment into its technology certainly worthy, but the real impact was when Heartwood made small gains over high volume. Simply put, reducing training costs was great, but reducing operational costs in the field was the bigger deal. Now its solution is designed to span the lifespan of the worker from Training-to-Field-to-Refresher learning as one cohesive value extended loop. Adversities in Technology According to Heartwood, its biggest challenge by far and also the toughest competition is fighting status quo. Anytime new technology is introduced, especially in the enterprise, there is cautious optimism and a hesitation to
act. Thankfully that is changing at an unprecedented pace. It is tough to go even a week without hearing some Fortune 1000 company adopting interactive or immersive technologies for training and field service. The company takes the business case approach with its customers, insisting on a minimum of 3 KPI’s (key performance indicators) on the first pilot initiative. That way success, either in cost avoidance or otherwise, can be measured and lays the path for companywide implementation. When the team can’t clearly define that going in, it has even asked the customer to halt and rethink their starting point.
Training and guiding technical workforce - in a visual,interactive, portable manner.
Future Aspirations According to Heartwood, Anyone who has a job needs training, and always will. How they will train though – that will change with every technology paradigm shift. The tough part is to first predict where the opportunity is going to be, and second, how dynamic it is.
immersion and end-use. The company is betting on that vision and is planning its solution roadmap accordingly. Cliental Assessments
It is undeniable that the worker of tomorrow will be more decentralized, more mobile, and needing information ‘just-in-time’ at the point of use. From a platform perspective, Heartwood is predicting some combination of Tablet+Phone+Wearable and a seamless switch between them. They would all have a similar experience of absorbing content, just different degrees of
“The owner’s manual is so confusing. It’s almost impossible to mess up when we use your apps. They are something that can be utilized by apprentices and journeymen for years to refresh their skills.” – Pacific Gas & Electric “Confidence & mastery has noticeably improved! Where students seemed uncertain before, you can now see that the person knows what they’re doing.” – Norfolk Southern Railway “The Audi TT simulation is one of the best received WBT modules that we have ever done! Over 15000 dealer folks benefited from the training- and it was a tremendous help in introducing the new Virtual Cockpit Audi technology to our dealer body. I just want to say that you guys have done a great job on the two Audi Virtual Cockpit Simulations. Everyone was very impressed by it. It is featured on the Audi German training website and is available worldwide.” – Manager- Technical and Collision Training, Audi
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Air Target Sweden airtarget.se
Martin Normark CEO
Air Target Sweden is a renowned scoring specialist since 1958. Its acoustical scoring products have been delivered to customers in more than 30 countries all over the world.
Alelo alelo.com
Lewis Johnson Co-founder & CEO
Alelo helps people and organizations around the world succeed, by overcoming skill gaps that stand in their way.
CAE Healthcare caehealthcare.com
Dr. Robert Amyot President
CAE Healthcare delivers educational tools that help healthcare professionals provide safe, high quality patient care.
Captronic Systems captronicsystems.com
Vinod Mathews Founder & Managing Director
Captronic Systems Pvt. Ltd. is specialized design and development solutions company.
EDEM Simulation edemsimulation.com
Richard Laroche CEO
EDEM is the market-leader in Discrete Element Method (DEM) technology for bulk material simulation.
e-Xstream Engineering e-xstream.com
Dr. Roger Assaker Co-founder & CEO
e-Xstream engineering is a software and engineering services company 100% focused on state-of-the-art multi-scale modeling of complex multi-phase composites materials and structures.
GBvi gbvi.co.uk
Geoff Blackham Director
Gbvi is a leading company with a commitment to innovation and great customer service, to become a world-leading display products provider.
Heartwood Inc. hwd3d.com
Raj Raheja CEO
Heartwood provides virtual interactive simulations and guides that help operations, maintenance, and field service teams perform complex procedures faster, safer and with less errors.
Simlat UAS Simulation simlat.com
Roy Peshin Co-founder & CTO
Simlat strives to remain at the forefront of simulation technology innovation and is working towards providing the next generation training solutions for the expanding world of unmanned.
SimScale simscale.com
David Heiny Co-founder & CEO
SimScale’s vision is make simulation a standard tool in every engineer’s software stack by making it more accessible for everyone.
AI:
From Artificial To Authentic
About the Author
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ith so much attention focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI), it’s worth remembering that one size does not fit all. There are specific business-related pain points in mind when a company decides to deploy AI technology, so making the right choices can be a tricky task. For example, several months ago, an AI related breakthrough was announced – a robot learned and demonstrated the ability to perform a perfect backflip. While it is well acknowledged that the invested research and development for this mission was huge and the commercial potential for some applications is enormous, it is somewhat unclear how this specific innovation or the core models and algorithms of it, can serve other industries and verticals. Herein lies the problem.
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Mr. Jay Klein drives Voyager Lab’s technology strategy and core intellectual property. He brings more than 25 years of experience in data analytics, networking and telecommunications to the Company. Before joining Voyager Labs, he served as CTO at Allot Communications where he steered Allot’s data inspection and analytics core technology offerings, and as VP Strategic Business Development at DSPG, where he was responsible for strategic technology acquisitions. He also co-founded and held the CTO position at Ensemble Communications while founding and creating WiMAX and IEEE 802.16. He also served as the CTO and VP of R&D at CTP Systems, acquired rst by DSP Communications and later by Intel. Jay Klein holds a BSc in Electronics & Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University as well as numerous patents in various technology elds. |December 2018|
Maestros Insights Gauging AI success in one field in many cases can be meaningless for another. To make things worse, even when trying to go deeper into the technology and attempting to evaluate, for example, which Machine Learning algorithms are utilized by the product, or what are the number of layers in the Deep Neural Network models mentioned by specific vendors, in the end it will be possibly pointless as it does not directly reflect the solution deployment ‘success’ implications. Nevertheless, it seems that the market ignores this reality and continues to evaluate AI-based products by buzzword checklists using familiar and related AI terminology (e.g., Supervised, Unsupervised, Deep Learning etc.). While checklists are an effective tool for comparative analysis it still requires the ‘right’ items to be included. Unfortunately, what typically is absent are the items which are important to the customer, from a problem-solution perspective. Introducing Authentic AI Given all of this, there is a need to change the narrative around AI technology and solutions to something meaningful and authentic that reflects the real-life challenges and opportunities that businesses are facing. This is the time to introduce Authentic AI. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines ‘Authentic’ as both ‘worthy of acceptance or belief as conforming to or based on fact’ and ‘conforming to an original so as to reproduce essential features’. This is not about ‘Fake’ to be contrasted with ‘Real’. It’s about the essential features of AI which need to be acknowledged, and hence, redefine the ‘checklist’. Often, these essential ‘authentic’ features are hidden and only surface when a CIO/CDO is faced with a new problem to be solved. This is seen especially when the AI aspects of a proposed product or solution are fully explored by asking questions such as: - Is the AI technology utilized by the product aimed specifically for my problem, optimally (e.g., performance, cost, etc.)? - Is it capable of addressing the complete problem or only a part of it? - Can it be assimilated into the existing ecosystem without imposing new demands? - Can it address the compelling environmental conditions of the problem space? These issues can be grouped into three different ‘classes’ ‘Original’, ‘Holistic’ and ‘Pragmatic’: Original – How innovative is the solution? This can be quantified by assessing the following:
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- the invention of new algorithms or even new models and - the use of complex orchestration techniques or - through the capability to handle complex data formats and structures. While there is no need to re-invent the wheel repetitively for any problem, there are distinctive characteristics which require optimizing. Holistic – How complete is the proposed AI technology? It takes into account the capability of handling the end-to-end aspects of the solution, the competence of harmonizing the operation of the various AI components of the solution and the ability to adapt to ever changing conditions of the AI application. Pragmatic – Can the technology solve real world problems in their actual and natural space in a commercially viable way? This means that for example the data sources can be processed in their most native format (both unstructured or structured) as well as provide insights or results matching the pragmatic needs of the specific market expectations. In addition, the ability to be quickly deployed and rapid to act are assessed. All of these elements should be used to systematically assess and evaluate AI-based products and solutions to assess their authenticity and therefore effectiveness in specific use cases. For example, many home-loan mortgage evaluation and recommendation systems utilize a somewhat isolated machine learning based applicant classification method, one of many other processes included within the solution. The AI in this solution cannot be considered Authentic AI to a high degree as it ‘scores’ low on the ‘Original’ and ‘Holistic’ classes as it isn’t innovative ‘enough’ (from an AI sense). In addition, the AI component itself does not cover on its own the end-to-end aspects of the solution (hence affecting the overall performance and precision). It could be considered to be ‘Pragmatic’ to some level if it can handle the required data sources of financial institutions or the customer applications natively, and if the solution ‘output’ are the explicit results required as a specific recommendation (e.g., loan conditions). However, the deployment timeline (time-to-market) and commercial aspects need to be evaluated as well. This is just one example of many others, covering all kinds of variations. Perfect backflips may grant you a gold medal if you are a gymnast but if you are a master chess player don’t expect a winning move.
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Revolutionizing the Defence Industry
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urrently, military forces are widely using fundamental combinations of acoustical scoring or acoustic signature to describe emissions of sound, such as ships and submarines. In addition, acoustic signatures or sound attributes are majorly described on aircraft, machinery and living animals those who have their own characteristics which primarily study on the bases of their condition, behavior and physical location. Air Target Sweden is a well-known scoring specialist since 1956. Its acoustical scoring products have been delivered to customers in more than 30 countries all over the world. Air Target Sweden describes the acoustical scoring method to measure the miss distance between a supersonic projectile or missile and a target. The scoring system can also be used to check/verify the weapon fire control system. Air Target Sweden, having a mission in helping friendly defense forces obtaining higher skills and capabilities in the field of Live-Fire, is really in a pole position with more than 60 years’ experience in the field and by having its Headquarters, R&D and Production in Sweden. Sweden probably being the most or one of the most, high-tech defense export-friendly environments in the world. Delivering Cutting-Edge Innovation Air Target delivers the broadest, most up-to-date, real-time acoustic scoring system portfolio in the world. The firm strongly believes in customer satisfaction that makes it stand on the number one choice for its customers and digests every fraction of customer requirement in order to find the perfect customized product for every single enduser. The company also offers a wide range of products such as the Mini Marque 8.4", VDU-12 and Marque scoring stations, Miss Distance Indicators (MDIs), various support and test units, sleeve targets, and target towing winches.
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There are major categories which describe Air Target Sweden’s product range such as Scoring Stations, MDIS for hard targets and UAVS, MDIS for Sleeve Targets, Test Equipment and Accessories, Sleeve Targets, Inboard Target Towing Winches, Air to Ground Scoring System, LOMAH, Tank Target Scoring System etc. Air Target Sweden, being a small company, working with the most eligible team of skilled Engineers, Production team and Support technicians to choose the right customers from the perspective of gaining a long-term relationship with demanding and skilled customers from whom it can learn and gain new experiences. Defining Leadership Martin Normark is the CEO at Air Target Sweden. Martin, former officer in Swedish Army, holds a Master’s Degree in the field of Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, one of the largest, oldest and international technical universities in Sweden. While sharing his insights on Air Target Sweden’s global success, Martin asserts, “Our acoustical scoring products have been delivered to customers in more than 30 countries all over the world. Armed forces, i.e. Armies, Navies and Air Forces, Defence industries, and target towing operators are the main customers of Air Target Sweden AB.” Talking about company’s vision he states, “Our vision is to become to the Aerial Target market what Bosch has become to the Automotive business -The natural global choice for obtaining expertise and the most competent system or subsystem provider for training and testing of weapon systems against aerial threats.” Adding upon his profoundly enlightening journey, Martin elucidates about how he tackles with situations to move
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ahead. While sharing his thought about the company he adds, “Alone is not strong, but together we are! I think most of us have walked into the trap where we make the mistake of believing that our idea or solution is so smart that it will always be the right solution for customer or that if we just walk the extra mile we will conquer that new market region, so have we in the past and it did not work.” “Today we work closely with our customers to achieve world-class product development and we have partnered up with some of the very best Aerial Target Drone and Tow Target manufacturers in the world. I think being a company smaller than a mid-size lunch restaurant serving more than 30 countries with world-class solutions is proof of our successful way of working” Martin adds. Air Target Sweden strongly believes in the future, which will demand more decision-making, improvisation, and versatility during the training sessions together with a higher demand for graphical 3-D post-briefings. Talking about future aspects Martin asserts, “Benhancing all Air Target products with GPS or even IoT-capability it will make its unified solutions future proof.”
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Alelo:
Lewis Johnson Co-founder & CEO
Taking Learning and Development to the Next Level
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n an interview with Insights Success, the Co-founder and CEO of Alelo, Lewis Johnson shares the key insights over his organization’s journey and its specialized solutions and services. He has broadly discussed about his company’s core competencies and how the company is establishing its foothold in the global market. Considering these influential and inspirational aspects, Insights Success recognizes Alelo as one of the most trusted simulation solution provider of 2018. Below are the highlights of the interview conducted between Lewis and Insights Success: Give a brief overview of your company, its uniqueness and its vision. Alelo started as a commercial spinout of the University of Southern California. We are a leader in the use of artificial intelligence to transform training and education. Our goal is to help people and organizations around the world succeed, by overcoming skill gaps that stand in the way. What are the cutting-edge products/solutions offered by Alelo? We create AI-driven decision simulations, in which learners are immersed in simulations of realistic situations and must decide what actions to take. Learners typically practice their skills in encounters with artificially intelligent animated
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Alelo has used this approach to create cultural awareness training courses for over 90 countries, in which people learn cultural skills in simulated crosscultural encounters. We developed a cloud-based platform named Enskill that people around the world are using to improve their communication skills and other soft skills. Hundreds of thousands of people in dozens of countries have learned new skills using our products. Give a detailed description of your influence over the company and the simulation solutions industry. I founded Alelo to provide AI-driven learning solutions to large numbers of learners. We focused initially on foreign-language communication skills because there were major skill gaps that were not being adequately addressed by conventional instruction. Under my direction, Alelo has continued to develop its AI-driven simulation technology and is applying it to an ever-wider range of learning problems. Describe the experiences, achievements or lessons learnt that have shaped the journey of your company. Alelo solutions have saved lives. Military units that used Alelo’s language and culture training products before deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan have been able to establish strong relationships with the local people, and encountered greatly reduced levels of violence as a result. We have learned how to replicate this success with other critical skills. Learners report that when they
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experience situations for real it feels like they have already done it before, even though they have only done it in simulation. This gives them an added measure of self-confidence.
will become part of innovation ecosystems. Customers will develop their own simulation solutions on the platform, which will integrate with other digital learning products.
What are the challenges faced while providing simulation solutions and how is Alelo serving to tackle them?
Our data-driven development approach gives us continuous access to learner data, which we use to continually improve the performance of our simulations and drive innovation in our technology platform. Expertise in AI provided us a first-mover advantage, and big data helps us sustain that advantage.
Our simulation solutions rely on AI, and AI requires training data. To gain better access to training data and to make our technology available at scale we moved it into the cloud. Whenever learners access our Enskill platform we collect learner data and measure the performance of both the learners and the simulations. This helps to ensure that Alelo products address learner problems, and accelerates innovation. We think it will also have an impact on teaching, by making it more datadriven. What according to you could be the potential future of simulation solutions and how does Alelo envision sustaining its competency? We see the potential for offering simulations as subscription-based services, not as custom-developed solutions. Platforms such as Enskill
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Creating learning tools and solutions that help people to acquire new skills through artificial intelligence.
Testimonials from Alelo’s Clients “What makes Alelo products so powerful is that you practice in realistic situations. When you experience it for real you feel like you have already done it before.” - COL (Ret.) Dan Wilson, US Army “Enskill simulation is a great education tool that helps students practice speaking in real-life situations.” - Vesna Bulatovic, English program manager, University of Novi Sad, Serbia “I am very pleased that Alelo will continue to support the development of VCATs [Virtual Cultural Awareness Trainers]. VCATs provide highly effective customized culture training that is used across the Department of Defense. I believe Alelo’s work on the VCATs has always been of the highest quality.” - Cathleen Moran, former program manager at Joint Knowledge Online
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characters. The system automatically assesses learner performance, provides feedback, and delivers personalized instruction in the areas where learners need to improve. Learners develop new skills quickly, while relieving teachers of the burden of grading student performance and providing feedback.
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Catching-up with the
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obots have always been pictured as a man-made advanced technological creativity, which do and will favor the human species for future. As robotics is vibrantly globalized, soon it will be mainstreamed in various fields and sectors. Currently, there are numerous enterprises worldwide which are implementing robotics into industrial, healthcare and commercial use. Whereas, robotics have experienced a lot of up’s and down’s during this tenure, but with the time, it held a stronghold in the digital world. Whenever the discussion arises about the applications of robotics, the industrial sector has bespoken benefits’. Robots have become more affordable, smart and productive over the years. The sectors like agriculture, construction, warehousing and logistics, and customer services. By investing more in robots, an enterprise
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will be solving certain problems more accurately and efficiently. Meanwhile, utilizing robots will help enterprises to push their limits in order to fill up the productivity voids. With each slippage of time, the technology is upgrading so does the robotics. The advancements in robotics field will be a boon to the enterprises in order to increase growth and productivity rate. There are certain parameters that should be considered while implementing robotics in the enterprise, such as Following up Parameters before Reaching the Depth of Robotics Modifying; as per the user’s need Generally, robots used to require advanced training in order to operate comfortably. It’s not an issue for the big enterprises as they acquire the skilled people to deal with, where the small enterprises are not so gifted with
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loads of assets initially. But, with the new advances in robotics technologies, it has become easier for small ventures to invest in robots for increasing the productivity generating more revenue. Just by giving wireless commands from an IOT, demonstrating tasks to the robots gets easier. Nowadays, there are numerous varieties of robots to carry out multitasks, thus as per the user’s need, one can invest in robots for the industrial purpose. Easily Compatible Unlike the big manufacturing robots in huge industries, there are various collaborative robots which are specially designed to work alongside and to assist human workers in a variety of tasks. Earlier it was sort of stressful for an enterprise to allot specific man-power for certain task, but by implementing co-bots such issues are resolved. As the size and shape of co-bots are getting more
compact, it may benefit the enterprises in various terms. Easy to Develop Earlier robots were not able to program easily due to the incompatibility between the user interface and hardware. But, now Robotic Operating System (ROS) is dominating the industry by providing solutions for varied robots in order to perform the task without lagging. It’s an opensource framework which helps developers to redirect the programming in different ways. This open-source framework is dominating the growth towards the constructive direction. Amplifying the Range of Applied Robotics The 21st century—is the era of implementing new ideology and technologies in various sectors. While technological disruption has collectively affected every possible
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sector, robotics is still unaffected. From past few years, the technology, as well as its implementation, has increased substantially. Have a look on such few areas for possible applications. Obliging Enterprises through Robotics Cobot’s: Assisting Humans Unlike big manufacturing robots, collaborative robots are designed to work with employees in enterprises and corporates. The design is smart enough to assist humans and also, compact enough to handle. Generally, the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are slightly boon by implementing co-bots in day to day life, as they are easily adaptable, easy to process and most importantly it’s affordable. According to some experts, there’s a possibility of enormous growth in the business, if Co-bots are implemented widely. The main motive of industrial robots is to the prioritized safety of employees and workers, yet the chances of accidents are always at high risk. Whereas, co-bots works as a service robot; they come in various shape and sizes easing the workability and reducing the liability of employees. In order to get sanctioned as service robots, any co-bot has to pass certain testing parameters by robot manufacturing companies, factors such as easily compatible with other devices and programs, safe in use, easy to command, and processing at a faster rate. Currently, co-bots are used for processes like machine tending, packaging, and material handling. In spite of industries, co-bots are used in various sectors such as in farming, hospitals, healthcare and facilities, and labs. It does come under robot-as-aservice format.
with personal robotics cloud which will help robots to take and give information directly. Depending on the robot, it can process various functions such as lifting, leveraging, handle vision, object recognition and other, thus certain robots acquire such skills and will provide information to the cloud. Then, this information helps other robots to get enlightened. In simple words to say, robots will teach other robots for the better good of the enterprises. On the other hand, as robots are getting more and more evolved, filtering of essential information from rest will get much easier. This will comfort both big and small enterprises to manage big data more precisely. With the emergence of advancement in robotics, they are on the verge to touch skies already. If considering the above possible factors, this evergreen era of robotics is less likely to get saturated due to technological disruption. As the technologies are growing faster, the enterprises must to catch-up with them accordingly. It’s high time to implement new technologies especially of the robotics as its utilization is not only subjected to warehouses but also, towards the inhouse enterprise work. Hopefully, there’s a possibility of robot-oriented industries in the future.
Cloud Robotics Imagine an enterprise with robots that are totally independent to the user commands, in other words, no external programming may require in order to process robots for the various tasks. In accordance to that, a User Interface to be exact might not be needed in the future, as machine learning is already on its verge to get explored. Currently, in order to carry out certain tasks robots are been told to what to do using the interface whereas, cloud robotics directly twitch compatible code from the clouds which are required for the tasks. To work alongside with humans, robots must be deep learning the subjects simultaneously able to point out problems and provide solutions right away. Meanwhile, it will be a boon for the enterprises if the employees will get to interact with robots as a personified object rather than a machine. Soon, there
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CAE Healthcare: Innovating Healthcare Training and Patient Safety Methodology
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n an interview with Insights Success, Dr. Robert Amyot, President of CAE Healthcare, shares his experience and gives resourceful insights. In addition, he emphasizes the CAE Healthcare mission and its products along with the future goals in revolutionizing the industry. Below are the highlights of the interview conducted between Dr. Amyot and Insights Success: Give a brief overview of the company, its uniqueness and its vision. CAE Healthcare offers a cutting-edge learning environment to healthcare students and professionals where they develop practical experience before treating real patients. CAE Healthcare is transferring the expertise, technologies and best practices of high-reliability organizations like commercial aviation to healthcare. What are the cutting-edge products/solutions offered by CAE Healthcare?
CAE Healthcare offers the most extensive portfolio of simulation products and services for all the healthcare disciplines, with patient, ultrasound and surgical simulators as well as center management and faculty-developed curriculum. Today, approximately 13,500 CAE Healthcare simulators and audiovisual solutions are in use in over 80 countries worldwide by medical schools, nursing schools, hospitals, defense forces and other entities. One of the most recent examples of our leadership in innovation is CAE LucinaAR, our high-fidelity childbirth simulator with augmented reality. Equipped with the Microsoft HoloLens, the simulator projects a hologram of the fetus as it descends the birth canal:this unique integration of augmented reality with our realistic patient simulator physiology allows students to see how their actions and maneuvers affect the baby and the mother. CAE LucinaAR with HoloLens offers training for rare but threatening complications of childbirth, like shoulder dystocia and hemorrhage, in which the delivery
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team must act quickly to prevent injury and mortality. It can save lives: experts estimated that worldwide, more than 140,000 mothers die each year during delivery from postpartum hemorrhaging, and that 75% of these deaths could have been prevented. CAE Healthcare also offers peer-to-peer training of faculty who are learning to teach with simulation. The CAE Healthcare Academy has developed more than 500 simulation scenarios and training courses for educators, including a simulation fellowship with the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation & Learning (INACSL).
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Give a detailed description of your influence over the company and the simulation solutions. I am a cardiologist and clinician-researcher by trade, but an entrepreneur at heart. I lead CAE Healthcare with a clear mission: to improve patient safety and healthcare training through simulation-based education. Before joining CAE, I founded a startup that developed the Vimedix ultrasound simulator and following several years as an entrepreneur, I sold my company to CAE Healthcare and eventually became President. When meeting with leading healthcare providers, medical societies and scientific associations, I share the message that simulation-based training and ongoing competency assessment for clinicians promotes improved patient safety. Describe the experiences, achievements or lessons learnt that have shaped the journey of the company. Simulation is a relatively new approach in healthcare and it has required advocacy on the part of the clinical faculty and instructors. CAE Healthcare’s Human Patient Simulation Network (HPSN) conferences have been vital in shaping and advancing the practice by bringing together a passionate and global network of educators.
American Heart Association to open international training sites within CAE training centers around the world. We also partnered with the American Society of Anesthesiologists to develop a virtual operating room with an interactive patient for maintenance of certification courses for practicing physicians. What are the challenges faced while providing simulation solutions and how is CAE Healthcare serving to tackle them? One of the challenges is learning how to integrate simulation into an already full curriculum, or into a hospital setting to allow clinical teams to practice code blues and other emergency responses. The CAE Healthcare Academy supports all users of simulation with curriculum that is validated and easy to use, with onsite training, and with peer-to-peer support. What according to you could be the potential future of simulation solutions and how does CAE Healthcare envision sustaining its competency? Simulation will become a central element in training and more present in a growing movement towards high stakes assessment and certification for all disciplines in healthcare. Simulation will also expand beyond the students and become relevant for all healthcare professionals. In an effort to shift to value-based care, hospitals are increasingly given incentives to become safer and more efficient which will drive higher demand for more effective training. Today’s generation of healthcare learners expects an engaging, interactive environment: CAE Healthcare will continue to lead with innovations and advanced solutions for the education and certification of students and professionals in all the healthcare disciplines. Testimonials from CAE Healthcare Clients “The realism of CAE manikins provides students the opportunity to critically think during simulation.” – Donna Hatch, MSN, RN, Academic Dean of Nursing, Collin College, USA “LearningSpace is a system that can grow with the organization, enriching both the student journey and faculty management of educational activities.” – Ann Sunderland, Director of Clinical Skills and Simulation, Leeds Beckett University, UK
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e-Xtream engineering Providing Optimal Modeling Solutions
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eadquartered in Luxemburg, e-Xstream engineering is a software and engineering services company 100% focused on state-of-the-art multiscale modeling of complex multi-phase composites materials and structures (PMC, RMC, MMC, nanocomposites, hard metals, etc)
.e-Xstream engineering’s mission is to help material suppliers and end-users to: Investigate and predict the behavior of a large mix of composite materials Ÿ Design & Manufacture Innovative High-Performance Composite Parts Ÿ Minimize weight, cost and time-to-market of optimal composite industrial parts Ÿ Improve prediction of structural FEA by accounting for manufacturing process Ÿ Reduce material testing and prototyping Ÿ
In September 2012, e-Xstream was acquired by MSC Software of Newport Beach, California. MSC develops prototyping simulation software for the aerospace, automotive, electronics, and medical sectors, among others. Later in 2017, Hexagon acquired MS Software, making e-Xtream a part of Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence to offer its customers a whole range of solutions. Products Par Excellence The organization provides its customers with a complete and optimal modeling solution that suits their specific needs and integrates their existing design processes; from the compounding of the raw material (e.g. engineering plastics, rubber, CFRP, hard metals, nanocomposites, sandwich panels, etc.) to the processing (e.g. injection molding) and application in the final product. With a continuously increasing number of major customers in Europe, America and Asia, e-Xtream has added to its deep expertise in numerical simulation the business understanding of a large variety of materials such as reinforced plastics, rubber, hard metals and honeycomb sandwich panels used across the automotive, aerospace, consumer and industrial equipment industries. Leading from the Front Dr. Roger Assaker a technology entrepreneur, who is the Co-founder and CEO of e-Xstream engineering and Chief Material Strategist for MSC software. Roger holds a PhD and MS in Aerospace Engineering with a strong focus on nonlinear computational mechanics where he totals more than 20 years of experience. Roger complemented his engineering education with an MBA in International Business and several advanced technology, business and entrepreneurship courses from prestigious universities such as MIT & Harvard. In parallel to growing e-Xstream to be the world leader in advanced composite modeling, Roger is the Vice Chairman of NAFEMS Composite Working Group and active member of other technical material associations such as SPE and SAMPE.
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Crossing the Chasm Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) has been used for more than 50 years to accelerate the development and time to market of high quality products in virtually all industries. The ability of using the full potential of CAE to help engineering complex, innovative and high performance products depends on its fidelity, efficiency and accessibility. Today a lot of the innovation and performance are driven by advanced materials such as composites. The ability to engineer such materials and to use their full potential in complex system is thus a key for an effective & efficient use of CAE to drive innovative product design! Since 2003, e-Xstream has been developing Digimat (Digital Material) from one academic software module to become the leading platform for material and structural engineering of multi-phase materials like composites. Digimat has been designed to offer a holistic solution for a large variety of composite materials and to bridge the gap between process simulation & structural engineering. With Digimat, e-Xtream created a new innovative product and also a completely new market where the organization has been growing at the high double-digit rate for the last 13 years. In 2012, e-Xstream “Crossed the Chasm” from the early adopter to the early majority, it joined MSC Software Company (a winner of R&D100 2015 with Apex) where the organization established material modeling as one of the three strategic pillars of the company. In 2013, the organization transformed Digimat to host its expert tools and the company introduced vertical solutions and expert knowledge in the software platform. The first vertical solution that e-Xtream released, Digimat-RP (“Reinforced Plastics), is now the industry standard for modeling reinforced plastics. In 2015, Digimat-VA was introduced, which eventually created a lot of excitement in the target industries and have already won two innovation awards in the composite industry: JEC Innovation Award by JEC Group & ACE Awards for Composite Excellence by ACAM&SAMPE. Success is also achieved through a process of continuous innovation, which has earned the company multiple awards in international competitions, including the JEC Innovation Award, ACE Composite Excellence and R&D100, considered the “Oscar of the Year for innovation”.
“We believe, the strong team is the core to a successful business, therefore building one is our top priority.” material engineering, process simulation and structural analysis solutions. With technology built upon e-Xstream’s recognized experience with reinforced polymer multi-scale modeling, Digimat for Additive Manufacturing enables to print right the first time and use the full potential of additive manufacturing. The product won the JEC Innovation award in 2017 and this year in Asia as well. Removing Trial and Error Creating new materials are costy and time consuming. Digimat helps engineers to remove trial-and-error to save time and cost-to-market by virtual simlation. Digimat is now being used by leading international manufacturers to model the advanced composite materials needed to produce lighter, more energy-efficient cars and aircraft, thereby shortening development time and significantly reducing costs. Examples of its benefits are abundant: for a car brand, the implementation of Digimat can reduce the need for a series of plastic parts by up to 15%. When compared to the number of vehicles produced the potential gain amounts to several million euros per year.
As recent developments, e-Xstream has launched Digimat Additive Manufacturing solution based on 15 years of experience and know-how in material modeling - to support the fast transition from rapid prototyping into industrial production. Digimat offers a holistic simulation platform for additive manufacturing, delivering a unique combination of
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n an interview with Insights Success, the Director of GBvi, Geoff Blackham, shares key insights into his organization’s range of simulation solutions and discusses the company’s core competencies and how the company is expanding internationally. Insights Success recognizes GBvi as one of the most trusted simulation solution providers of 2018. Below are highlights of the interview conducted between Geoff and Insights Success: Give a brief overview of GBvi, its uniqueness and its vision. GBvi designs and manufactures custom optical blending and light path management solutions for challenging multichannel projection display environments including fixed and rotary wing flight simulators, fast-jet simulators, digital planetariums and large scale immersive spaces. We’re the only independent provider of high-quality optical blending solutions to simulation & training, education and entertainment markets. Our optical blending technologies enable system designers and integrators to overcome the hurdles faced when using digital projectors in dark environments. Partnering with systems designers, engineers and display system integrators, we help customers to overcome the display
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challenges of complex projection systems - fitting into the ‘back end’ of a visual system and providing the last building block to complete the solution. Visual innovation is at the core of our business, and to be innovative means to be creative. We continually prototype new optical blending technologies and often work with unique display setups that lead us to devise increasingly innovative approaches to ensure display perfection. What are the cutting-edge products/solutions offered by GBvi? We currently offer the widest range of optical blending technologies to integrators so that the best solution to each blending challenge can be met from a systematic productfocused approach. Our display design tools include detailed whole-system analysis capability, which allows us to optimize achievable performance.
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We also offer a range of patterned blending technologies, including chrome-glass, emulsion-film and metal foils, that exploit refined algorithms to provide blending for systems ranging from the super-bright to the low-cost.
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Our latest blending product, Chronos Greyscale, is compatible with recently introduced and anticipated projection devices - supporting the highest resolutions and most challenging illumination sources.
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help our customers succeed and feel that this is the best insurance policy.
I founded GBvi in 2011 after spending more than 22 years with SEOS, and latterly Rockwell Collins (now Collins Aerospace). My background in the simulation & training industry include invention of the world's first millionto-1 contrast digital projector and major contributions in the development of fulldome rear-projection display systems.
Our biggest achievement has been to establish ourselves as the leading independent provider of optical blending solutions to the global projection displays market. Essential to getting there, while of course has been through technical innovation, has also been through the introduction of strong practices and procedures to ensure the quality and reliability of supply that our customers expect.
Through GBvi, I started off providing consultancy services to the industry, moving on in 2014 to shape the business as an optical blending specialist. Key to this has been initiating the development of sophisticated design tools, which now represent a cornerstone of our technical processes. Describe the experiences, achievements or lessons learnt that have shaped the journey of the company. Early in GBvi’s development, our biggest customer went bust, which certainly taught us a number of commercial lessons! However, it’s always been important to us that we retain a supportive and cooperative teamwork mindset. We work hard to |December 2018|
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procedural training sectors of visual simulation, but the unhindered environment will remain an essential characteristic of full-function simulators for a number of years to come, so the projection system will in turn remain an important class of display. Pressures on fidelity and cost will continue to grow, however, as will the trend to outsource related design and support services. To meet this, GBvi’s substantial ongoing R&D investment will be maintained, introducing new blend technologies and expanding our range of services. Testimonials from GBvi Clients “Antycip Simulation uses GBvi technologies in a range of fast-jet and helicopter simulation applications – their experience, dedication to innovation and exceptional support, help us meet the technical and design challenges clients present us with. It’s critical to our projects, that our technology partners maintain unrivalled levels of accuracy and attention to detail… GBvi is an excellent partner, in these regards, and far exceeds our expectations.” Riccardo Rovelli, Area Manager for Italy and Germany, Antycip Simulation
Optical blending is a requirement that is often overlooked when specifying projection visual displays, which can result in very short delivery schedules. Our design tools and supply chain management have been key to supporting short turn-round design and manufacture while maintaining high quality results. What according to you could be the potential future of simulation solutions and how does GBvi envision sustaining its competency? Virtual Reality will make big inroads into the initial pilot and operator
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Gary Cardenas President TOC Logistics
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he logistics and supply chain management industry is one that is constantly evolving and optimizing, and because of the competitive nature of the industry, innovation is key for success. Modern technologies have not only aided in the streamlining of supply chains and company processes, but have also set the industry on a technologically advanced path that many could not have even imagined fifteen or twenty years ago. From robotics in warehouses and autonomous ships and trucks, to computerized shipping and tracking, technology has changed the industry for the better and has provided new levels of visibility. With the aid of technology, supply chains of the future may be a bit more complex, but will certainly be more efficient and less expensive. A few of the technological advancements that have changed the game for the logistics and supply chain management industry are: Computerized Shipping and Tracking Modern technology has drastically impacted the shipping industry and has made for more efficient and accurate tracking. With a wide array of different supply chain management software programs on the market, logistics and supply chain professionals and their clients are able to keep an eye on their shipments during every step of the supply chain journey. With every second being crucial in the world of supply chain management, the ability to provide complete transparency to clients in terms of where their packages are and when they will arrive is something that is extremely valuable. Computerized shipping and tracking has also largely reduced the amount of time spent shipping, receiving, tracking packages and compiling shipment data, as all necessary data can be stored in one easy-to-access place. And in this case, saving time means saving money. Being able to digitally organize data and monitor shipping and tracking information also reduces the opportunities for human error. With digital records there is no longer a worry that sloppy handwriting or a misplaced piece of paper will throw a wrench in a shipment being delivered on time, or to the right place. “Futuristic” Autonomous Vehicles A big technological push in the industry right now is the advancement of autonomous vehicles, electrification, use of solar power, and energy storage, all of which will be used across the board to both reduce cost and increase efficiency. Right now, energy and transportation make up more than half of total supply chain costs and labor accounts for a little less than a third of costs. With further technological |December 2018|
advancements, the transportation and labor aspects of supply chains will eventually cost very, very little compared to what they do today. The eventual implementation of autonomous electric vehicles, which can be programmed to use the most efficient routes and run throughout the night without a driver, will drive down the cost of labor and increase capacity on the roads. Autonomous vehicles will also address the growing concern of truck driver shortages throughout the industry. Also on the very near horizon is the use of autonomous ships. Autonomous ships would address the issues of piracy, talent shortage in the ocean shipping industry and accidents caused by human error. Big Data Logistics and supply chain management professionals live and die by data. A recent study by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals shows that 98 percent of third-party logistics firms and 93 percent of shippers feel that data-driven decision making is key to supply chain activities. Technological advancements have made it extremely easy to gather and analyze key pieces of data. Data surrounding shipping times, cargo weight, weather patterns, traffic routes, and more can lead to greater transparency, optimized routes, greater reliability and automated supply chains. Having a team that is able to accurately interpret big data is key to success, and will likely save a company both time and money. There is a reason UPS drivers don’t make left turns. Someone on the UPS team analyzed large amounts of data, which is now available thanks to technology, and determined that eliminating the majority of left turns would use 10 million less gallons of fuel, emit 20,000 tonnes less carbon dioxide into the air and help deliver 350,000 more packages every year. Technology is something that is hard to predict and often difficult to wrap your head around, but the logistics and supply chain industry is benefiting from every new technological advancement in our field. The supply chains that we are working with today will be drastically different in five or ten years’ time, and almost unrecognizable in twenty or thirty years. Technology has made supply chain management more efficient, transparent and cost-effective. It is important to have members of your team that are willing to embrace new ways of doing things and that are able to stay up-to-date on new forms of technology. This industry is constantly changing, and in order to be successful you need to be willing to change along with it.
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Simlat
Providing Next Generation Training Solutions for Unmanned Aerial Systems
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owadays Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are utilized in various sectors including commercial, civil and military applications. Thus, just like with any other aircraft, UAS operators also need some degree of training. Meet Simlat, a leading provider of next generation training systems for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). The innovative solutions offered by Simlat enable training in various configurations accustomed to any platform, payload and mission that support commercial, civil and military applications.
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INTER is Simlat’s Integrated Trainer which has been successfully integrated to tens of UAS, Ground Control Stations, Operator Control Units and other components. Its main advantage is the fact that it can train operators to use the specific platform which they can operate while including scenario control options such as weather conditions, various entities and customized malfunctions.
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IMPACT is Simlat’s ISR Multi-Purpose Advanced Classroom Trainer. It is a solution for training centers that can accommodate 4-32 trainees simultaneously, with a few instructors in charge. Utilizing IMPACT, each trainee can operate a different platform on a different scenario, controlled by the instructor as well.
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Application Content Packages include a variety of entities and other relevant content associated with the packages’ theme. First responders, mining inspection and maritime exploration are some examples, which consist of relevant entities such as specialized vehicles, simulated officers and even animals. Using these entities, users are able to create complex training scenarios to fit various training needs.
Currently the organization supports more than 100 UAS programs and training centers in over 30 countries across the globe. Simlat is constantly working in order to improve its technology and solutions to support the integration of UAS to everyday lives. It envisions providing its users with the best UAS simulation solutions while remaining at the forefront of technology. Simlat provides various UAS-related simulation products, from training solutions to post-session debriefing tools and a 3D models creation system. The wide range of solutions Simlat offers gives users a complete UAS training and simulation environment. Changing the World of Simulation When it comes to offerings, Simlat’s C-STAR, INTER, and IMPACT are its most popular solutions, along with some UAS Application Content Packages, ·
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C-STAR is a Crew Stand-Alone Trainer, which was developed as a training solution for a crew of UAS operators, typically configured for a UAS pilot and a sensor operator, or just one of the two where the instructor performs the job of the missing operator. It uses a generic platform which allows the trainees to develop skills and techniques that will be relevant to other platforms they may operate in the future.
The Visionary Leader Roy Peshin, Simlat’s Co-founder and CTO has led the organization and its vision since its inception and was instrumental in bringing Simlat to the forefront of UAS simulation technology. With massive experience in the field of unmanned aviation, Roy sees simulation as an integral part of expanding UAS use cases and integrating UAS into the professional landscape. His knowledge and leadership shaped Simlat’s innovative product line of systems that are being used around the world. Dedicated to provide Simlat’s users with cutting-edge, immersive UAS simulation |December 2018|
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technology, Roy leads the company with sheer passion and embraces new ideas and developments with his exceptional expertise. Thriving in a Conservative Ecosystem Simlat started its journey as a startup in the aerospace industry segment mainly dominated by military customers of a highly conservative eco system. It took a while until Simlat’s innovation, quality, and cost-effectiveness were adopted by this market. Initial sales were hard, but once key international customers adopted Simlat technologies and were extremely satisfied by the technology and support, Simlat’s reputation and market share grew constantly in its niche markets.
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Moreover, along with the shifting of the UAS industry towards civil and commercial applications, Simlat’s advantages became even more apparent leading to a leap in demand and installations. By 2013 Simlat sold products in 25 different countries. Later in 2016, Simlat was recognized by Frost & Sullivan as a leading provider of UAS training and simulation platforms as well as the most advanced UAS training solutions. These days, Simlat’s products are being used around the world in diverse programs and provide a balanced and optimal solution for UAS operation training needs. Currently, the organization’s customer base is continuously growing with more UAS OEM choosing Simlat simulation as an integral part of their solution as well as prominent training centers selecting Simlat comprehensive line of products. Simlat believes that in order to operate a UAS correctly, safely and effectively, a UAS operator should receive excellent training. However, when people hear the word “simulation” they become skeptic regarding the effectiveness of simulated training. During its initial period, Simlat had to prove why its systems were worthy and effective for the training of UAS operators especially since some of the benefits of simulation are not always so straightforward. With a vision to overcome this challenge, Simlat referred potential customers to existing ones from various backgrounds to showcase the value of its systems. Making Simulation Much More Accessible Simlat invests heavily in Research and Development and constantly improves its products and technology. It has continued to grow and develop its content packages and simulation capabilities to various fields of UAS use in order to continue leading the world of UAS simulation. Simlat is always in touch with its customers and people in the ecosystem which helps the organization to set its goals for the future. It continuously pushes the boundaries as far as realism is concerned. The organization also believes simulation shall become more accessible in terms of connectivity and IT platforms, and is working around the clock in order to facilitate that trend.
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PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT Technology Transforming the Construction World
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n the modern global economy, the construction enterprises have to face several challenges to streamline processes; increase revenues and cut cost whilst at the same time meet regulatory demands. The Product Life Cycle Management technology (PLM) is aiding these enterprises with innovative Product Data Management (PDM) solutions. Currently, PLM is playing a vital role in providing the companies with keys to optimize their businesses. It is also playing a significant role in the designing, developing, and managing the construction machinery and products so that the enterprises can attain a greater profitability and stability. Boosting the Mobility In the fast stirring construction world, technology is becoming explicit in making the process faster and more efficient. PLM enables enterprises with improved communication and responsiveness. Efficient communication and information-sharing can foster the setting of a construction company and enforce smooth on-site and off-site operations. As such, PLM provides more flexibility to the work leading to frequent collaboration, cut costs and escalate business outcomes. It is integrating applications that help the companies to innovate their products regarding the development and the engineering performance. Also, consistency of working methods and more efficient data management leads to mobility in the workplace and provides prominent decision-making process assistance. Catching the Wave of Business Analytics Data is of great use for any construction enterprise. This data need not be disputed. PLM technology is the key to monitor the engineering data and process information in a
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significant manner. It provides selective access to the data and mechanism related to the control of the data leading to end-to-end construction processes. This helps in carving-out better construction solutions. PLM is making significant efforts needed to bring right data in the right form and delivers functions that allow the information to be under control. It precisely supports the construction processes with the suitable risk & compliance as well as the service management. PML is surely assisting the business analytics with its applications, delivering strategical and tactical business values. The integration of PLM with analytics will help the construction companies in capturing and analyzing any sort of content, allowing transparent delivery of only the important data into the 3D-experience platform. This facilitates the elimination of legacy tools and systems in a controlled and low-risk manner. Connecting Every Dot of the Market— Construction Lifecycle Management Construction Lifecycle Management (CLM) is simply PLM for Construction and Engineering. It promotes innovative ways of thinking and doing business by delivering cutting-edge Construction Process Integration framework. This helps the organizations to withstand the market complexities and manage all the phases of the Lifecycle of a Capital Asset holistically: design, build, operate and retirement. In the construction market, Production and Manufacturing are unique fields on their own but share a great deal of things together. Individually these fields are concerned with creation. Broadly, manufacturing is concerned with creation of products and production is concerned with capital assets. CLM helps organizations to clearly build a symbiotic relationship between the two. It has helped connecting every dot of the construction industry and is profoundly transforming the construction-tech processes. CLM provides a complete strategic business approach for the companies by which they can implement a consistent set of business solutions— integrating people, processes, and information. It highlights these solutions in support of the collaborative creation, management, dissemination, and use of construction definition information. It is a comprehensive business approach that conduits the opening between design, engineering, construction and profitmargin for the business enterprises. CLM covers missing support regions and overcomes the lack of integration and collaboration between different business operations taking place in the industry. It facilitates the involvement of construction information across all enterprise functions, customers, and suppliers. CLM is taking the construction market to the next level by underpinning both lean practices and standardized modules. It gives a solid foundation to an organization. It is nothing more than a PLM for construction practices which is improving how information is organized and how changes are managed. It can prevent inhibiting the reintroduction of waste into operations once it has eliminated and generated profitable business outcomes. It helps in managing how the products and their designs are standardized, organized into configurable modules, and efficiently manufactured based upon the data. A Tech-Enabled Future There will be an exciting future for the construction industry with the rapid development in the PLM industry. It will empower the next wave of business productivity. Integration of PLM in the cloud, mobile, and the IoT will lead to rewarding opportunities with extraordinary contributions to the construction world. PLM will provide the construction enterprises with a seamless data integration layer to access the core database information in a simple and efficient manner. These curated moves would create a successful platform for an organization to set its pillars right into the market. Furthermore, systems decomposition and process re-engineering would become paramount to the IT skill inventory. This would be due to the business operations and master data hitches decomposed in unison and enabled by the PLM technology platforms of the future.
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The Cloud-Based Simulation Platform that is Democratizing CAE
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n an interview with Insights Success, David Heiny, CEO and Co-founder of SimScale, shares his insights into the company’s journey and its simulation solutions and services. This interview includes details about the company’s core competencies and its role on the market. SimScale is a cloud-based simulation platform that brings together CAE functionality, content and people. Prior to SimScale, David held various mechanical and software engineering positions, including co-founder of an engineering simulation service provider. He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics and CSE from Georgia Tech and Technical University Munich.
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Below are the highlights of the interview conducted between David and Insights Success: Tell us about SimScale SimScale is the world’s first productionready SaaS application for engineering simulation. We’ve moved high-fidelity physics simulation capabilities from a complex and cost-prohibitive desktop application only available to experts in large corporations to a simple to use web application accessible to any designer and engineer via a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Our vision is to make simulation a standard tool in every engineer’s and designer’s software stack. SimScale is
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What are the cutting-edge products/solutions offered by SimScale? SimScale offers state-of-the-art FEA and CFD capabilities for structural, thermal and flow simulations via a standard web browser. As the platform is completely cloud-based, our customers benefit from seamless collaboration capabilities and practically unlimited computing power, supporting the most sophisticated simulation projects. Our customers have used SimScale to design complex products ranging from small electronic components, to race cars, ships and high-rise buildings. Describe the experiences, achievements or lessons learnt that have shaped the journey of the company. From the very beginning, SimScale’s mantra has been that the success of our customers is our success. Only if our customers gain a positive ROI on their investment in simulation, will we be successful. Because of this, the driving force behind how we build our product, how we organize support and what we do on a daily basis has always been our customers and the engineering challenges they face. What are the challenges faced in providing simulation solutions and how is SimScale serving to tackle them? For businesses interested in using engineering simulation as a product development tool, integrating it into their workflow traditionally meant overcoming several barriers: the cost, maintenance and rollout of high-performance computing hardware, procurement of simulation software often for more than $50,000 per seat, and hiring or training specialized personnel capable of using it. SimScale removes these barriers by providing an end-to-end simulation workflow completely in the cloud with a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Thanks to the seamless collaboration with our specialized support staff as well as a large community of engineering professionals, onboarding and hence time to effective use is cut to a fraction of the time required with traditional CAE software. What according to you could be the potential future of simulation solutions and how does SimScale envision its role in it?
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Providing an end-to-end simulation workflow completely in the cloud.
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based in Munich and Boston and currently employs more than 60 team members.
process is already beginning, as increased accessibility is seeing a wider range of industries use simulation earlier in the development cycle — this is what SimScale focuses on today. Beyond that, we’ll see simulation being used to train hardware as well as during operation to monitor performance. IoT and Digital Twins are concepts that will lead to not just simulating a design before manufacturing but actually simulating a single product instance during operations, e.g., predictive maintenance. Here are a few testimonials from SimScale’s customers. 1) “SimScale is an incredible platform. It increases access to CAE for users of all abilities. It has the potential to totally change the industry and has the capabilities of reaching considerably more users. The interface is incredibly easy to follow and allows to quickly gain a high level of competence” — Mark Byers, Hydrodynamics Engineer at Scotrenewables 2) “SimScale’s user-friendly interface simplified the task to a great extent. Moreover, SimScale’s customer support is admirably good. The online support and sharing of project facility is one of the features that separates SimScale from other CFD software.” — Sujaat Ali, Senior Mechanical Design Engineer at Larsen & Toubro 3) “The nice thing about SimScale is that you can essentially run an unlimited number of simulations simultaneously with no reduction in computational resources, because SimScale opens up each simulation on independent nodes. This is a huge advantage for us, because we are typically under heavy time constraints.” — Daryn Bertelson, CAE Engineer, Aqseptence Group
We believe that engineering simulation has a bright future. Until now, simulation has primarily been used as a design validation tool in the late phases of the product development process. In the future, simulation will play an important role across the entire product life cycle. This |December 2018|
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Dhruvil Sanghvi CEO & Co-founder
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Dhruvil Sanghvi, CEO and Co-founder of LogiNext, youngest tech business head in Forbes India 30 under 30 (2017), started his journey post Carnegie Mellon University and effectively led LogiNext, the fastest growing logistics and eld workforce optimization SaaS enterprise, to the glory.
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oes anyone remember a time before the Internet? Most of us have seen it, but it’s hard to recreate it in our mind. It only exists in long tales which we tell the young, tales of yesteryears where life wasn't occupied by technology. But we love technology. And the next evolution of the Internet would make the current time become another yesteryear tale. What is this next Internet evolution? It’s the Internet of Things. We know that Internet is where we access relevant and non-relevant information; connect with friends, peers, companies, and customers; and utilize to conduct our daily business and activities. So, what is the Internet of Things or IoT? IoT is when the devices which we use to connect and interact with Internet talk to each other. ‘Talk’ is exchange data among the devices with a view to facilitating better solutions and faster processes.
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INTERNET OF INTERNET Now, your smartphone can connect to your television and laptop even when they aren’t in the same room. You can sync all your systems so that any change done at one place would reflect everywhere else. “Where to?” Self-driving cars around the corner! The true essence of IoT comes out when it is coupled with machine learning. Fast forward into a world of automation where self-driven cars aren’t fiction. The system in your car operates the engine, the sensors around the vehicle, the breaking, and everything else. It connects to the cloud, observing the traffic and weather patterns along the route you are about to take. It auto adjusts to the passing vehicles, all the while ensuring the safety of its passengers.’ There have been some issues with this as a couple of crashes being reported. This tech can’t be forced live due to market pressures as the cost of mistakes is too high. Once autonomous cars do hit the roads, they would have to be perfect. But this isn’t more than a couple of years away. For now, let’s look at something that is already running and showing great results. ‘How do we get there?” Perfect route optimization is here! We are used to having the best products and fastest services. To make this happen, people and goods must be constant on the move somewhere or the other. Be it from the manufacturers to warehouses or distributors, distributors to retailers, or directly to the customer's door, there are a lot of assets constantly moving.’ How is this logistics movement managed, tracked, and directed?
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Technology, like that of LogiNext, tracks vehicles through GPS right from the time they are loaded to the point they finish their replenishment duties. Delivery personnel and field agents such as technicians, supervisors, sales folks, etc. are tracked using their smartphones. The agents use our app to streamline their daily activities and sync live information gathered onground with their company’s central system. This tech is not just the need of the hour; it’s what keeping the everexpanding need for cost-friendly logistics management in check. Spiraling logistics costs arising from increased volume movement with a growing driver storage. Even the trend of same day/next day deliveries means that some vehicles are left underutilized. Sensors and trackers, backed by a base machine learning based system, can now help managers optimize the capacities of their vehicles, assign the right load to the right driver/delivery associate, and eventually set the best route devoid of traffic and other bottlenecks to ensure on-time deliveries. Delivery route planning and optimization, hence, is not just cutting down costs, but also incentivizing market evolution. Companies like Amazon and Walmart can ensure better customer service with timely deliveries and end-to-end order tracking. This helps create value for the customer, the company, and the economy. “What's in the box?” Automated warehousing streamlines it!
distribution centers or warehouses. Some high-value companies have already part automated the operations in these centers. As mentioned earlier, the sheer increase in the volume of goods moved nowadays means that the lead time even at warehouses must be shortened to the minimum. If the order must reach a customer in a day, it can’t really spend about half of that at the center itself. The entire sorting and allocation system is automated. Some companies have even robotized some mundane functions within the warehouses. “Do as I Say” Voice Controlled Logistics Movement We are well aware of the latest in virtual assistants such as Alexa, Siri, Google Home, etc. It's a handy way to automate activities around yourself. You can just ask Alexa to book a cab while playing your favorite songs. Google recently demonstrated proper AI capable bots which could even have impromptu conversations and book appointments. The obvious extension of this came with voice-controlled logistics management. Using the same ease of household directions, managers can automate the planning of delivery routes, dispatch shipments, tracking vehicles, etc. using just their voice. They can talk to the system and do all of these things. The idea is simple. IoT is going deeper and deeper into our lives, not just how we handle our phones, but also how we handle our businesses. Above all, we must remember that it’s only a tool. It's how we use it that would define our future.
With the development of machine learning backed logistics optimization, companies are investing in large
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