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MAPLESOFT
Maplesoft’s new solution suite
Maplesoft™, today announced several new products that will help engineers better manage the complexity of engineering modeling and simulation problems : MapleSim 3, MapleSim Control Design Toolbox, and MapleSim LabVIEW® Connector.
MapleSim 3 – MapleSim, Maplesoft’s core physical modeling product, has a rich modeling platform which has been greatly enhanced in this release. Modeling capabilities have been extended with new component libraries for hydraulics and electrical machines and refined solvers that handle even greater model complexity. In addition, new user interface features lead to faster development time and smoother workflow. MapleSim’s core symbolic technology produces highly optimized equation-based models, which provide the best possible real-time performance in key application areas such as hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation.
Built on a foundation of the world’s most powerful symbolic computation engine, MapleSim offers the most extensive range of advanced analysis tools, supporting sensitivity analysis, optimization, and advanced visualization techniques.
MapleSim Control Design Toolbox – The MapleSim Control Design Toolbox provides a solid set of essential control design tools that extend MapleSim’s exceptional plant modeling capabilities to support control design. This toolbox takes advantage of the symbolic approach for designing, analyzing, and testing control systems, which results in greater flexibility and accuracy. By developing plants and controllers together in the MapleSim environment, the development process is accelerated, and tool-switching cost is reduced. MapleSim also increases the reusability of controller designs through built-in technical documentation tools.
MapleSim LabVIEW® Connector – This toolbox integrates MapleSim's rich modeling environment into the popular LabVIEW real-time platform from National Instruments (NI). Engineers using LabVIEW can quickly develop and optimize complex engineering system models in the intuitive visual modeling environment of MapleSim. This new toolbox joins the MapleSim Simulink® Connector (formerly known as the MapleSim Connectivity Toolbox), which provides enhanced connectivity with Simulink and Real-Time Workshop®. When combined, these products ensure that MapleSim now connects to all popular real-time platforms.
“This expanded solution is a critical part of Maplesoft’s mission to empower the engineering community with all the necessary pieces to tackle emerging and increasingly complex design challenges,” said Jim Cooper, President and CEO, Maplesoft. “Physical modeling is certainly driving the designs of tomorrow. These products provide better integrated toolchains and powerful tools to gain maximum benefit from physical modeling quickly. Expert modelers can do more, faster, and traditional techniques can easily be modernized.”
As part of its improved engineering solution offering, Maplesoft also announced a significant expansion of its Application Engineering Division with the intention of providing timely modeling and consultation assistance, and helping rapid deployment of new techniques in engineering projects. This group is global in scope and service, integrating services from Maplesoft’s solution partners from around the world.
Built on a foundation of the world’s most powerful symbolic computation engine, MapleSim offers the most extensive range of advanced analysis tools, supporting sensitivity analysis, optimization, and advanced visualization techniques.
MapleSim Control Design Toolbox – The MapleSim Control Design Toolbox provides a solid set of essential control design tools that extend MapleSim’s exceptional plant modeling capabilities to support control design. This toolbox takes advantage of the symbolic approach for designing, analyzing, and testing control systems, which results in greater flexibility and accuracy. By developing plants and controllers together in the MapleSim environment, the development process is accelerated, and tool-switching cost is reduced. MapleSim also increases the reusability of controller designs through built-in technical documentation tools.
MapleSim LabVIEW® Connector – This toolbox integrates MapleSim's rich modeling environment into the popular LabVIEW real-time platform from National Instruments (NI). Engineers using LabVIEW can quickly develop and optimize complex engineering system models in the intuitive visual modeling environment of MapleSim. This new toolbox joins the MapleSim Simulink® Connector (formerly known as the MapleSim Connectivity Toolbox), which provides enhanced connectivity with Simulink and Real-Time Workshop®. When combined, these products ensure that MapleSim now connects to all popular real-time platforms.
“This expanded solution is a critical part of Maplesoft’s mission to empower the engineering community with all the necessary pieces to tackle emerging and increasingly complex design challenges,” said Jim Cooper, President and CEO, Maplesoft. “Physical modeling is certainly driving the designs of tomorrow. These products provide better integrated toolchains and powerful tools to gain maximum benefit from physical modeling quickly. Expert modelers can do more, faster, and traditional techniques can easily be modernized.”
As part of its improved engineering solution offering, Maplesoft also announced a significant expansion of its Application Engineering Division with the intention of providing timely modeling and consultation assistance, and helping rapid deployment of new techniques in engineering projects. This group is global in scope and service, integrating services from Maplesoft’s solution partners from around the world.
