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Maplesoft Commercial Market Overview With global R&D spending in excess of $200 billion a year, corporate research labs, development teams and design departments are clearly front and center in commercial organizations’ efforts to drive innovation and growth. As companies and their customers become focused on faster, better, smarter, safer products and technologies, engineers and scientists are pressed to do more and make a bigger difference every day. From break-through product concepts to new manufacturing techniques to incorporating modern materials into existing designs, corporate technical advances are rivaling the work of top research institutions of government and academia. However, commercial engineers work under the added pressures of time to market, profit margins, liability and even compliance. Their work also affects an increasing volume of downstream applications, from product lifecycle management systems to technical publishing and even supply chain management and logistics. Despite the time intensive and critical nature of R&D, engineers traditionally have used a limited set of mathematical tools. Paper-based solutions date back several thousand years, and many engineers still rely on “back of the envelope” calculations and handheld calculators. This approach is not only very difficult, but is also very time consuming and, most of all, entails a very high degree of risk. Recently, spreadsheets have become ubiquitous solutions for situations where there seems to be no better tool. Unfortunately, spreadsheets were designed for simple financial calculations, not for the complex mathematics required in today’s design and development. Finally, while programming languages are good for communicating with computers, they’re a very poor medium for capturing knowledge. As R&D efforts have become more complex and engineering projects have become more encompassing, the rules have changed, creating a need for new high-powered technical productivity tools. Maplesoft is able to meet this need with time-tested math software that has proven its value in the most challenging of environments. Maplesoft combines its powerful computation engine with a worksheet environment that captures the knowledge and analysis behind the mathematical results, automatically documenting work as it is created and generating code, if required. Maplesoft saves time and money, not only the first time a task is performed, but also by capturing the knowledge and enabling its reuse in future projects. With Maplesoft’s extensive deployment options, the mathematical outcomes can be shared, in context, across departments or organizations, making design updates, quality testing and validation, project auditing, compliance and risk analysis faster and easier than ever before. As a result, Maplesoft is ushering in a new age of industrial strength mathematics – one in which the most powerful and comprehensive computation tools reduce risk by ensuring the best designs are achieved quickly and easily using the mathematically optimized solution. By providing results that are reliable, repeatable and documented, Maplesoft is helping to unleash engineering knowledge as a corporate asset to drive quality, competitiveness, and overall corporate performance. Following are a few examples of how commercial engineers and scientists can use Maplesoft’s suite of products to solve mathematical and engineering problems, share results throughout the organization, and publish professional results. Biotech & Pharmaceutical Maplesoft products provide the tools engineers need to easily solve mathematical problems in biotechnology and the life sciences. Whether users are designing new drugs and vaccines, creating medical diagnostic tests, developing algorithms in bioinformatics or any other problem that involves mathematical relationships, Maplesoft’s world-class solvers, modeling, visualization, exploration and programming tools will quickly lead to deeper insights and greater understanding. Chemical Systems Maplesoft’s products provide the tools needed to easily solve mathematical problems in chemistry and chemical engineering. Examples include modeling a gas phase reaction in a catalytic reactor, predicting the steady-state behavior of catalysts, chemical process control or any application that involves mathematical relationships. Maplesoft’s world-class solvers, modeling, visualization and exploration tools will quickly lead to deeper insights and greater understanding. Control Theory and Design System modeling, stability analysis, compensator design and many other important control analysis tasks are made easy with Maplesoft’s products. The integrated symbolic and numeric environment can accelerate the turnaround time for the product development cycle whether one is deriving a system transfer function, state space, differential equation model or designing control algorithms and compensators, using techniques such as pole placement, Root Locus, LQR, and H2/H optimal control. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulations combine to give better understanding and insight into the system behavior. Together with advanced features such as interactive 2-D and 3-D plotting and animation, automatic code generation and a rich worksheet environment, Maplesoft’s products are the perfect tools for control applications. Electronics The design of electronic devices, ranging from individual VLSI devices up to entire circuits and systems, can be made easy with Maplesoft products. Engineers can derive, design, analyze, simulate, verify and document design using integrated symbolic and numeric tools within a single environment. Whether one is designing an individual VLSI device, such as a field effect transistor, analog filter implementation or transmission line, or designing an entire power distribution grid, Maplesoft’s products provide unparalleled capabilities and support in all stages of the product development cycle. The extensive symbolic and numeric functionalities, coupled with advanced interactive 2-D and 3-D plotting and automatic code generation features offer the most advanced and cost effective tool for any electronics application. Financial Whether they are used by banks pricing a new derivative or government organizations running economic forecasts, Maplesoft’s products provide the analytical tools to derive, solve, and deploy real-world financial models. Mechanical Systems Maplesoft’s products enable engineers to create sophisticated analytical models quickly and error-free. Whether one is calculating reaction forces for static analysis or requires a plant model for a control system, or requires fully parametric equations of motion, Maplesoft’s products provide the tools to manage the equations and parameter, compute the answers and provide greater insight into the models. Optimization To beat the competition, businesses must achieve maximum productivity with minimum resource costs. Which asset mix gives the best expected return, given risk tolerance? Which location for a new retail outlet would cut distribution costs the most? There is no room for guessing in today’s global economy. Maplesoft’s products help solve optimization models with correct mathematical precision, taking the guess-work out of crucial quantitative decisions. Signal Processing Maplesoft’s products enable engineers to derive, design, analyze, simulate, verify, implement and document algorithms or filters quickly and easily within a single environment. The products can help with all tasks involving mathematics, including: Designing FIR or IIR filters Performing channel spectral analysis Computing Fourier, Hilbert, or Wavelet transforms of sound and image files Developing simulations for system analysis and verification The products provide unparalleled capabilities and support in all stages of the product development cycle. The extensive symbolic and numeric functionalities, coupled with advanced interactive 2-D and 3-D plotting and automatic code generation, offer the most advanced and cost effective tools for an application.