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Technology is both becoming more interactive and connected, from Alexa to digital factories of the future. Sensors are the gateway to transforming the physical to the digital realm, yet they are often the limiting factor in the overall performance of the system. Sensor technology has exploded recently due to the advances in MEMS and semiconductor processes. These advances are helping to serve market demand at a very low cost. Ultrasonic fingerprint sensors are highly sophisticated and compact ultrasonic phased arrays, that have been adapted for manufacturer and semiconductor processes and compressed into a footprint that is small enough to fit into one cell phone. The most profound example of the explosion in sensor technology is the Internet of Things (IoT) movement. This is also known as “the trillion sensors initiative”. The movement predicts an ever-increasing amount of connected sensors in our environment. All this translates into a huge global market for sensors that is growing at a healthy rate year over year. In this post we’re going to explore how simulation can accelerate IoT innovation and reduce design cycles by describing several real-world examples, which we ran in OnScale.

After another successful training event in Japan, we are excited to announce that we are planning all of our future Master Classes for 2019. We want to give everyone the opportunity to attend, so there will be multiple courses spread across Scotland, USA and Japan. Starting with Glasgow! The course will be held at the University of Strathclyde from the 16th to 17th of July and will be delivered by OnScale's Glasgow based engineering team!

#ImAnEngineerAnd was created for you get to know the engineers behind OnScale, the global leader in CAE and Cloud HPC! We have a very interesting team of creative individuals, with hidden talents ranging from DJing to fatherhood. Over the next few months you can expect to read about a variety of our engineers from around the world, all working as one team and sharing insights into their work and personal lives. Get a deeper understanding into why people are joining OnScale, and learn what the coolest things are about working for us!

Join OnScale CEO and co-founder Ian Campbell, for some exciting simulations of real-world problems and a lively discussion on how you can help build the Future of Engineering with Cloud Simulation.

As the OnScale team continues to grow, we sat down with some of our engineers to find out what made them want to join OnScale, and how they believe OnScale will help tackle some of the biggest challenges fellow engineers will face in the next 5 years. What made you join OnScale? “The core foundation for most of my educational and professional achievements has been based on the development of accurate physics-based models and answer products for different applications. However, the most challenging problem faced during this development was the computational resource and time and verifying it with the measured data to make informed decisions for new product development, improvement and sustaining of existing products. A typical example would be the design of an answer product for borehole sonic imaging or marine streamer, where the simulation time with legacy FEA software would range from a few days up to a few weeks. Simulation results obtained after spending months waiting would not generate enough data for the final development of an answer product. Most of the time spent while running these simulations was spent optimizing the model to reduce the computational time, and at the same time generating accurate results. These trade-offs were never ideal and led to a lot of non-productive time (NPT) and the ROI on the new product development could not be justified. Furthermore, the advancements in data analytics has led to an increasing need for physics-based simulations to provide faster and reliable data to augment the development of ‘Simulation of Things’ and the ‘Digital Twin’ which legacy CAE software are unable to address with an effective approach. I first learned about OnScale when it was called PZFLEX, while I was working on my Ph.D. thesis. Since then, I’ve been impressed by their capability to solve complex piezoelectric problems. The addition of cloud computing and MPI solver capabilities a few years ago was another step in the evolution of PZFLEX to OnScale. This has enabled endless opportunities in the field of CAE design and analysis by solving large physics-based problems with reduced computational time and resources. OnScale is at the frontier of cloud CAE and it is extremely exciting to be a part of the team as we address both the present and future research and engineering development based on the paradigm of ‘Data.’ I had the opportunity to interact with Ian (our CEO) and have had several meetings with Gerry (our VP of Engineering) over the past year. I’ve personally gotten to know the excellent team which OnScale has built, and hence was very interested to join. In addition to working with the team to make OnScale the world leader in this field, I also get to provide future engineers and scientists a simulation tool to innovate quickly without being bounded by computational and time constraints.” - Mihir Patel, Director of Engineering