Picturing the pipes

Staff -- Industrial Distribution, 10/1/2005

Engineered Software, Inc., a provider of software used to design and simulate the operation of fluid piping systems, announced the release of its PIPE-FLO Overtime, a program that works in conjunction with the company's industry-standard PIPE-FLO Professional program. Overtime's events editor gives users the ability to create events—such as starting a pump on a high tank level or setting a valve at a given flow rate—and then determine how the events affect the system.

"By using the intuitive events editor, engineers can create real-world scenarios to better understand how their system will operate under a variety of operating conditions," says Ray Hardee, Engineered Software's vice president of engineering. "Analyzing different scenarios quickly and accurately using Overtime takes the guesswork out of the 'what if' situations that engineers spend tremendous amounts of time preparing for."

Once Overtime has run a simulation, the program's VCR controls make it easy to play back, pause, rewind and fast forward to any point in the simulation to gain a detailed look at what is happening within the system during each time interval.