Looking for someone to introduce Elmer to my company
Posted: 01 Mar 2021, 22:03
The company has made its decision, so we are not looking for someone to introduce Elmer anymore. The replies this post attracted were helpful to me. Thank you all. I leave the original message unchanged below.
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Greetings,
I work for a hydraulic cylinder production company as an IT consultant. They are specialized in large custom cylinders of up to 2 meters of diameter and 23 meters of length.
The company has been using ANSYS for stress analysis. They do FEA. I attended the ANSYS tutorial with the engineers back when they bought the program several years ago, so I can tell you that what they do involves deleting some details on the part, generating meshes and plotting colored stress graph and such. But they probably do other stuff as well. Excuse my lack of knowledge in mechanical engineering and please bear with me
Their original staff trained in ANSYS left the company and their needs have changed as well. Since the company is in need of fresh training, they are currently at a crossroads as to whether they move forward with ANSYS, or start using something else.
I am fond of open source software, so I suggested that they try to find something open source. But they do not think it is possible. Even their FEA consultant told them that "he does not even see a possibility that there would be any open source programs that do FEA". And yet, a simple web search landed me here. Although I don't know anything about FEA, I believe Elmer will be able to satisfy their needs. I have managed to convince the chairperson and the technical director to give it a try.
Now I would like to find someone who knows their way around Elmer FEM. I would like to set up an online meeting for this Elmer expert, myself, the two employees who are to use the program, and most likely the technical director. I would like the Elmer expert to explain Elmer's capabilities to them. I think 1-2 hours will be enough for them to decide. They are ready to pay.
With all open source programs I have used so far, the user is basically expected to RTFM and learn on their own. That mentality is a bit foreign to this company, so they are going to need some hand-holding. If the expert can convince them, they will work with him/her for quite some time.
If anyone is up for it, I am looking forward to have you contact me. Elmer knowledge is a prerequisite, obviously. Turkish knowledge would be a nice to have. Because we (the technical director and I) are concerned that the two employees might have difficulties following the English language. If there is someone who knows both Elmer and Turkish, great. If not, no problem. We will have a translator.
They will be sending me a list of the exact features they need in the following days. I will post the updates.
I hope I can find someone to impress them. You can contact me here on this post or if you want more privacy, through my email address: alp@kayahan.com
Thank you for your time,
Alp
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Greetings,
I work for a hydraulic cylinder production company as an IT consultant. They are specialized in large custom cylinders of up to 2 meters of diameter and 23 meters of length.
The company has been using ANSYS for stress analysis. They do FEA. I attended the ANSYS tutorial with the engineers back when they bought the program several years ago, so I can tell you that what they do involves deleting some details on the part, generating meshes and plotting colored stress graph and such. But they probably do other stuff as well. Excuse my lack of knowledge in mechanical engineering and please bear with me
Their original staff trained in ANSYS left the company and their needs have changed as well. Since the company is in need of fresh training, they are currently at a crossroads as to whether they move forward with ANSYS, or start using something else.
I am fond of open source software, so I suggested that they try to find something open source. But they do not think it is possible. Even their FEA consultant told them that "he does not even see a possibility that there would be any open source programs that do FEA". And yet, a simple web search landed me here. Although I don't know anything about FEA, I believe Elmer will be able to satisfy their needs. I have managed to convince the chairperson and the technical director to give it a try.
Now I would like to find someone who knows their way around Elmer FEM. I would like to set up an online meeting for this Elmer expert, myself, the two employees who are to use the program, and most likely the technical director. I would like the Elmer expert to explain Elmer's capabilities to them. I think 1-2 hours will be enough for them to decide. They are ready to pay.
With all open source programs I have used so far, the user is basically expected to RTFM and learn on their own. That mentality is a bit foreign to this company, so they are going to need some hand-holding. If the expert can convince them, they will work with him/her for quite some time.
If anyone is up for it, I am looking forward to have you contact me. Elmer knowledge is a prerequisite, obviously. Turkish knowledge would be a nice to have. Because we (the technical director and I) are concerned that the two employees might have difficulties following the English language. If there is someone who knows both Elmer and Turkish, great. If not, no problem. We will have a translator.
They will be sending me a list of the exact features they need in the following days. I will post the updates.
I hope I can find someone to impress them. You can contact me here on this post or if you want more privacy, through my email address: alp@kayahan.com
Thank you for your time,
Alp