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DigitalEd, the Maplesoft spin-off company formed to bring enhanced focus to online education for science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects, has begun operations as a separate corporation. As its first official act of business, DigitalEd announced a new release of its Möbius platform for online education, including new versions of its products that provide automated testing and assessment, placement testing, and interactive courseware to educational institutions around the world. The latest release includes major enhancements to analytics and performance.

Maplesoft has announced it has been named an Encompass Product Partner in the Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork Program. Through the partnership, joint customers of Rockwell automation and Maplesoft will benefit from technology that provides model-based tools for virtual commissioning. Using Maplesoft technology, customers are able to reduce costly integration problems through the development of high-fidelity, high-performance Digital Twins of their machines.

  An International Summit Series about online education, two summits of which will be in European cities, has been announced by Maplesoft. The series of five Maple T.A. and Möbius User Summits includes stops in London (7th to 8th September 2017) and Turin, Italy (12th October) and will focus on transformations in online education.

A critical component in vehicle design is the tyres. To save time and money in the design and development of new vehicles, automotive manufacturers typically use models to simulate the dynamic relationship between tyres and road surfaces. If possible, a tyre model must accurately simulate the dynamics of the system and allow designers to vary its parameters, and simulations must also execute quickly.

A major new release of the flagship product from Maplesoft has been announced, Maple the mathematical software, will make it extremely easy to analyse, explore, visualise, and solve math problems. The result of over 30 years of development, Maple already has comprehensive mathematical coverage and extensive usability features, but with continuous development efforts, this release includes a large number of useful improvements that existing customers will welcome.

Maplesoft have announced the public release of Möbius, the online courseware environment that focuses on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. With months of extensive pilot testing at select leading academic institutions around the world, Möbius is now available to all institutions for their online learning needs. Customers will also soon have the option of adopting Möbius-based course materials developed by the University of Waterloo, a leading institution in STEM education.       

  It has been announced that Maplesoft has released a new version of MapleSim, an advanced system-level modelling and simulation platform used by engineers to reduce development time and gain insight into system behaviour.

An update to Maplesoft’s popular testing and assessment tool, Maple T.A has been announced by the company. Maple T.A. is a powerful online testing and assessment system designed especially for courses involving mathematics, making it suitable for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) courses.

Improving on-demand informative feedback for students is a big part of the teaching vision and goals at the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Birmingham. The College believes that enabling consistent and immediate feedback will greatly enhance the teaching and learning experience. To this end, the College chose Maplesoft’s testing and assessment platform, Maple T.A. to encourage students in active learning and independent study.

Maplesoft release the latest version of its popular testing and assessment tool, Maple T.A..  Maple T.A. is a powerful online testing and assessment system designed especially for courses involving mathematics, making it ideal for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses. Maple T.A. 2016 provides major enhancements for content authors, making it faster and easier to create and modify questions and assignments.

Maplesoft announced a reseller agreement with EnginSoft, a premier consulting company specialising in simulation-based engineering. EnginSoft will represent Maplesoft in the commercial markets in Germany, France, Italy, UK, Nordic, Spain, and Turkey.

In the mining industry, processing plants are generally constructed on the site of extraction. Mined ore gets transported by super-heavy duty trucks to the plant, where it gets crushed into smaller sizes before being stockpiled, or transported offsite for further processing. Besides the ore, the mine typically has to move four times as much overburden as ore. Big mines typically have to move 700,000 tonne of material per day. As the mine gets larger, the trucks have to travel longer distances to deposit their load, resulting in significant increases in the cost of fuel and vehicle maintenance.To address this problem, FLSmidth engaged the services of Maplesoft´s Engineering Solutions team to develop design and analysis tools that would help them design a Dual Truck Mobile Sizer (DTMS) - an innovative machine that can be relocated throughout a project, as the haul distances increase. 

All across the world today, industrial robots perform tasks that range from palletising boxes in a warehouse, to transporting hoppers of ingredients across a food preparation factory, to precision welding on a vehicle assembly line. The successful completion of these tasks relies on the accurate control of the robotic manipulators to provide the required dexterity. 

Maplesoft announced the release of MapleSim 2015 and the latest member of the MapleSim family of products, MapleSim Server. MapleSim is an advanced system-level modeling and simulation platform from Maplesoft, and the MapleSim Server is a new product that allows engineers to explore MapleSim simulation models from a web browser.

Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) programs around the world are benefitting from the testing and assessment tool Maple T.A, which includes many features designed especially for courses involving mathematics. However, it´s not just STEM courses which need a software platform that offers instructors a comprehensive online assessment tool. Academic staff at the University of Manchester, UK´s largest campus-based university, use Maple T.A. beyond the traditional STEM courses, in a variety of programs from the Humanities.Maple T.A. is a powerful online testing and assessment system designed especially for courses involving mathematics. Since Maple T.A. automatically assesses responses, students receive instant feedback on their performance. Compatible with virtually any course management environment, Maple T.A. can be seamlessly integrated into the existing online learning infrastructure. 

Millions of shipping containers pass through sea ports each year, carrying anything from machinery and auto parts to shoes, toys, and frozen food. At modern ports, containers are unloaded onto docks, and then moved to stacking yards where Automatic Stacking Cranes and Ship to Shore Cranes stack them until they are ready to be loaded onto trucks or train cars. Containers must be moved quickly and accurately without interference from other containers, cranes, or vehicles. Any delays reduce profitability for the port, especially at large ports that move thousands of containers each day.ABB Crane Systems is the world´s leading supplier of automation and electrical systems for container handling and bulk handling cranes, including automatic stacking cranes and ship to shore cranes. They are notoriously difficult to control because they use long ropes, and small disturbances can cause the containers to swing. Even without any external disturbances, the motion of the container itself can produce oscillations. Today, these cranes are required to lift heavier loads at higher speeds and to greater heights than ever before; however, this size increase is making the oscillation problem even worse. These oscillations and their suppression have been widely recognized as a major efficiency bottleneck by the shipping industry. ABB Crane Systems wanted to develop improved automatic crane controllers capable of suppressing the swinging motion, and hence improve their customers´ operational safety and profitability.

Blue Joule Corporation is a consulting company that specializes in the design, analysis, development, and implementation of high precision control systems. While working with a client on developing a controller for servo-actuators on a target-tracking radar gimbal, Blue Joule turned to Maplesoft Engineering Solutions for assistance in developing the controller.A gimbal is a platform that can rotate about an axis. By combining two gimbals, an object on the platform can be pointed in any direction. This is useful when you want the gimballed object to continuously point at a moving target. For example, a tracking radar on an aircraft is mounted on a gimbal mechanism, allowing it to maintain a fixed lock on a ground position as the airplane changes altitude, direction, and orientation. A target-tracking radar uses a gimballed antenna along with controllers and servo-actuators to lock onto a specific target and maintain the lock as the target moves. A servo compares the commanded position from the controller to the actual measured position and rotates to correct the output angle accordingly. Should either the measured or desired angles change, then the motor rotates to compensate.

In movies, robots can walk, talk, and even pretend to be human. Their real-life counterparts are considerably more limited. But this gap is closing, and Engineered Arts, a UK robotics company, is seeking to bring reality closer to fiction.