DynaTech Engineering,
Inc. Uses Visual Numerics® JMSL™ Numerical Library for Visual Data
Analysis in Rotating Machinery Vibration Analysis
JMSL charting also reduces application development time, improves
testing imagery
Houston, TX – January 30, 2007 –
Visual Numerics®, Inc., celebrating 36 years of producing advanced
numerical analysis and visualization software,
announced today that DynaTech
Engineering, Inc., an industry-leading consulting firm specializing
in rotating machinery vibration, is using the
JMSL™ Numerical Library
for Java™ applications to enhance the visual analysis and testing
capabilities of its new analysis software package iSTRDYN.
During the development of iSTRDYN, DynaTech Engineering
realized it needed a comprehensive set of Java numerical libraries
as well as a charting package to better display diagrams. The company
also experienced problems debugging their previous analysis solution.
DynaTech Engineering chose Visual Numerics’ JMSL Numerical Library
for its wide range of solution algorithms and sophisticated multidimensional
charting in pure 100% Java, its thorough and intuitive API documentation,
and its ease-of-use in writing sub-classes. DynaTech Engineering
is now using the JMSL library to simulate what happens when rotating
equipment spins, and what changes occur under different loading
conditions. As a result, the company has been able to offer their
customers reduced analysis time, improved results accuracy, and
decreased uncertainty in their calculations.
As Lyn Greenhill, the President of DynaTech notes, “The numerical
libraries in JMSL allow iSTRDYN to reliably solve heat transfer,
forced response, and natural frequency calculations of large, complicated
rotating systems. This frees us to concentrate on providing analysis
features, rather than worrying about developing solution algorithms.
In addition, JMSL’s advanced charting capabilities saved us from
writing the graph functionality ourselves, which gave us a head
start in the rapid application development required to meet our
tight deadlines for releasing iSTRDYN commercially.”
Since the JMSL library’s charting package also allows for user-written
sub classes, DynaTech Engineering extended JMSL’s Data class to
create Points, Lines, Polygons, and Series classes. In addition,
the company extended other Classes associated with the Axes to allow
custom functionality such as panning and zooming, as well as dynamic
changes to labels, color, visibility, and location of specific Data
objects.
“To provide a new level of rotating machinery analysis capability
in iSTRDYN, it’s important for engineers to be able to select
shapes, change the color of shapes, make sets of shapes invisible
and change shape locations,” continued Greenhill. “Without the ability
to change these values on the fly, we would have to create new charts
for every result case and repopulate them with data which would
slow down the analysis process considerably. JMSL gave us the ability
to create a customizable interface that saves untold hours during
the modeling and analysis process.”
“Most companies have to build or buy and integrate separate charting
and library components, however the JMSL library gives DynaTech
a complete advanced visualization and analysis package that is quickly
and easily embeddable into their Java platform,” said Phil Fraher,
president and CEO of Visual Numerics. “DynaTech now has an analysis
platform on which they can integrate new functionality as necessary
to gain the ultimate competitive advantage in their market.”
About The JMSL™ Numerical Library for
Java Applications
The JMSL Library is the broadest collection of mathematical, statistical,
financial, data mining and charting classes available in 100% Java.
It is the only solution for Java programmers, which combines integrated
charting capabilities with the reliable mathematical and statistical
functionality of the industry-leading IMSL™ Numerical Library algorithms.
The JMSL Library is platform independent, which makes it easy to
embed in existing, standalone or networked applications. Additionally,
the solution requires shorter development cycles than custom-created
or home-grown systems and can offer companies cost and time savings
of up to 95%.
About DynaTech Engineering, Inc.
DynaTech Engineering, Inc. is an industry leading consulting firm
specializing in rotating machinery vibration analysis and testing.
Established in 1995, clients include a wide range of industrial
and aerospace organizations, including NASA and the Air Force. The
company is developing the 100% Java iSTRDYN program that
will calculate the dynamics, heat transfer, and stress solutions
for rotating machinery systems, with commercial release scheduled
for early 2007. The program will be available in desktop, network,
and Internet versions. For more information, visit
http://www.dynatechengr.com/.
About Visual Numerics, Inc.
Visual Numerics has provided technical
software solutions for numerical analysis and visualization for
more than three decades. The company's software products help users
understand complex data from a variety of sources and build business-critical
applications. Visual Numerics offers two product lines: the IMSL
Numerical Libraries for powerful mathematical and statistical analysis
and the PV-WAVE® visual data analysis development environment. Visual
Numerics also offers customized professional services for applications
that involve mathematical, statistical, or visual data analysis
to meet today's business analytical needs.
Major corporations, academic institutions, and research laboratories
worldwide use Visual Numerics' software tools, including such high
profile companies as: Bear, Stearns & Company; Barclays Global Investors;
Priceline.com; Humana, Sandia National Laboratories; and Boeing
Company. This large and diverse customer base is supported through
a direct sales force, wholly owned international subsidiaries, and
international distributors. For more information about Visual Numerics,
please visit www.vni.com.
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