11/1/02 - Announcing the Complete OPTIMUM Design Environment - Changing the World of Engine Design

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 1, 2002 - OPTIMUM Power Technology is committed to a program of continuous product development. As such many enhancements to our software are made available every year as part of renewals and maintenance. However, some changes are so revolutionary that a new product group needs to be defined. Hence, we now announce the complete OPTIMUM Design Environment.

This environment comprises 4 key components that are combined to create a new, state-ofthe- art design system:

  1. AUTOMATED DESIGN Rel. 1
  2. The Network Supercomputer Rel. 1
  3. The Multi-user Database Rel. 1
  4. VIRTUAL ENGINES Rel. 6
The addition of a Multi-user database, the AUTOMATED DESIGN Expert System for advanced optimization and the OPTIMUM Network Supercomputer to VIRTUAL ENGINES is a significant step forward in engine design technology and introduces a whole new design paradigm, which is set to render all other engine design tools obsolete by comparison.

David Montgomery (one of our beta testers) from Bombardier commented:

"The optimization of the gas dynamics of modern engines is critical to providing world class engines. Optimum's AUTOMATED DESIGN has allowed me to reach optimized pipe and port solutions that would have previously been unattainable due to time constraints. One example was a 10 variable optimization that would have been impossible using conventional simulation tools took only 27 hours to complete and produced an excellent engine design, ready to start physical testing."

David T. Montgomery, Ph.D.
Sr. Engineer Analysis/Advanced Engines
Bombardier Boats and Outboard Engines

1. AUTOMATED DESIGN is the world’s 1st engine design expert system and can be thought of as a diligent tireless assistant, thoroughly analyzing a predefined design space in search of the best solutions to your engine design problems. AUTOMATED DESIGN can accelerate the design phase of any engine development project by orders of magnitude, and yield a substantially better design in the process. It will allow an engineer to explore a much larger design space in a fraction of the time. The savings, not only in time, but finding better designs are clear.

2. The Network Supercomputer is the world’s 1st system to effectively harness the latent processing power of existing desktop PC’s. We have one customer considering 1000 PC’s that are not used at night. All of this can be harnessed to work on engine design!