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Competitive Intelligence Calculator (CIC) estimates competitive intelligence capability of your company/business on three dimensions: risk identification, risk monitoring, and management actions.

CIC is based on the concept proposed by Dr. Ben Gilad in his book “Early Warning: Using Competitive Intelligence to Anticipate Market Shifts, Control Risk, and Create Powerful Strategies”, Amacom 2004.



Dr. Ben Gilad defines competitive intelligence in the following way:

“Competitive intelligence is the gathering and analysis of information from human and published sources about market trends and industry developments that allow for advanced identification of risks and opportunities in the competitive arena…before they are obvious to everyone but your company!”



(Quoted with permission from Dr. Ben Gilad).

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Cargo Optimizer is an award winning optimization program for highly efficient loading of containers, pallets and trucks. Its numerous advanced features make it, not only the best value for money fully featured optimizer on the market, but also one of the easiest to use.



Key features include unlimited number and size of cargos and containers per loading; Loading of both cartons and pallets; Control of cargo orientation in 6 different directions; Limit maximum cargo stack or set ‘no other product on top’ or ‘place on floor only; Displays number of products, unit price and priority per cargo or per pallet; Displays load as 3D diagram in Color or Black & White; Repeat and multiple loading solutions for large shipments; Revolutionary ‘Manual Load’ system; and Extensive help file included for ease of use.



Benefits to our customers include lower shipping costs per unit and increased profit by loading more cargo. Other benefits include protecting fragile cargo with advanced limit orientation features and superb customer relations by providing rapid and accurate responses to all loading enquiries.



The main advantage Cargo Optimizer offers over its competitors is Manual Load’. This is not included in any other value for money optimizer. Here is a brief explanation:



All optimizing software works the same way, the operator enters the number and dimensions of the cargo plus any special requirements then lets the software process the calculations and produce a load plan of how to load the cargo most efficiently. But what if the operator is unhappy with the result? He can process the same cargo once again, but he will get exactly the same result. If he has however purchased Cargo Optimizer he can enter the manual load mode and construct the loading pattern himself. He is now able to make every decision on every piece of cargo that is placed in that container. This feature provides complete unlimited control over the entire cargo planning process.

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GIPALS is linear programming environment that incorporates large-scale linear programs solver and easy, intuitive graphical user interface to direct specify or import and solve any type of constrained optimization problems arising in various industrial, financial and educational areas. Constrained optimization problems are stated as linear programs with UNLIMITED number of decision variables and constraints. The linear program solver is based on Interior-Point method (Mehrotra predictor-corrector algorithm) and optimized for large sparse linear programs by implementing the state-of-art algorithm to order the constraints matrix. The user can specify the linear program constraints in a dense form using the grids or in a sparse form using the particular constraints editor. The dense form is suitable for small and medium linear programs with non-zeros prevail over zeros. In this form the constraints can be directly copied/pasted from/to MS Excel spreadsheets by Windows clipboard. The sparse form is designed to specify / view / edit large linear programs with tens and hundreds of thousand variables and constraints. GIPALS can import linear programs from Mathematical Programming System (MPS) data format that is an industry standard for the description of a variety of linear programs. Any linear program specified in GIPALS’ user interface could be exported to MPS format. The solution of the linear programs can be saved as CSV (comma-delimited spreadsheet), Tab-delimited or HTML file.

Key features of GIPALS:

Simple and natural way to specify a linear program without any special mathematical knowledge;

Robust Interior-Point method for fast and reliable solution;

Support the industrial standard format of linear programs;

Report the solutions in widely used formats including spreadsheets and HTML.

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Simple mortgage calculators just don’t cut it anymore. Life is just more complex than down payments and interest rates. Real Life Mortgage Calculator is freeware you can add to your site that gives your visitors a much better picture of how much house they can afford than a simple mortgage calculator. It calculates upfront costs, estimates utility costs, and tells you how much you’ll be paying every year in interest until the mortgage is paid off.



The Calculator grabs over 20 different variables from the visitor through a simple questionaire, then displays an easy-to-read, printable report packed with important information. The form is completely validated with JavaScript and PHP before it is processed. An external stylesheet makes the page a small, quick download.

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The Unscrambler combines statistical analysis techniques and multivariate mapping for easier data interpretation. This means users can effortlessly perform powerful statistical analysis while easily communicating results to colleagues.



Multivariate Curve Resolution (MCR): Resolves mixtures by determining the number of constituents, their spectral profiles and their estimated concentrations

Descriptive statistics (Mean, Standard Deviation, Box-Plot, skewness, kurtosis, correlation matrix)

Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Regression (MLR, PCR, PLS-R, 3-way PLS-R)

Prediction from PCR, PLS-R and 3-way PLSR models

Classification (SIMCA, PLS-DA)

ANOVA and Response Surface ANOVA

Validation options: Leverage Correction, Cross-Validation (freely choose number of samples per segment), Test Set

Variable Scaling options: Scaling is free on each variable. Suggested options: Auto-scaling, Constant, Passify

Interaction and Square terms can be included in all models

Smart Tools for Analysis



Analytical tools required to decipher data and create innovative solutions.

Automatic detection of significant X-variables in PCR and PLS-R

Model Stability in PCA, PCR and PLS-R

Automatic outlier detection in PCA, MLR, PCR, PLS-R and Prediction

Message list of recommendations in MCR modeling



Interactive analysis:

Mark samples and/or variables on plots

Recalculate With or Without Marked samples or variables

Recalculate With Passified Marked or Unmarked variables

Extract Data from Marked or Unmarked

Automatic Pretreatments in Prediction and Classification

Tutorial exercises guiding you through the use of all The Unscrambler modeling techniques in application examples



Design of Experiments

Design Wizard: Takes you through the stages of building a design

Fractional and Full Factorial designs

Plackett-Burman designs

Box Behnken designs

Mixture designs (Simplex-Lattice, Axial, Simplex-Centroid)

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The U-Tune PID Tuning package was produced after years of problem solving and tuning for the North Sea oil and gas industry. Although the vast majority of processes can be characterised by simple delay-lag dynamics, many expensive tuning packages fail to cater for the excessive noise and disturbances typifying the process response.



U-Tune succeeds by giving the process control engineer direct input into the process identification phase and by providing easy comparison of test results.



The tuning algorithms have been thoroughly tested on compressor anti-surge and load sharing controllers, separator level controllers, produced water and water injection control systems, flaring, export control and much more.

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Calculate proportional-integral tuning parameters for process controllers.



Simply type in the process gain, delay and lag time as obtained from valve step tests and the calculator will provide tuning parameters for your process controller.



Full details are included in the user guide.

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EasyFit is a distribution fitting software designed to facilitate probability data analysis and best model selection. It allows to easily and quickly select the probability distribution which best fits to data. The integrated environment provided by EasyFit includes data management, data analysis, and reporting capabilities.



BENEFITS of EasyFit:

Saves time: reduces your analysis times by 70-95% over manual methods;

Saves money: prevents analysis errors and helps you make better decisions;

Ensures the high quality of your projects;

Requires only a basic knowledge of statistics.



KEY FEATURES:

Support for over 40 probability distributions;

Powerful automated fitting mode;

Flexible manual fitting capability;

High-quality interactive graphs;

Goodness of fit tests;

Hypertext reports;

Probability calculations;

Easy to use interface.



ADDITIONAL FEATURES:

Ability to view graphs of distributions without entering the data; Excel-like spreadsheet; Integrated random number generator; Descriptive statistics; Comprehensive Help system.



SUPPORTED GRAPH TYPES:

Probability density function (PDF), cumulative distribution function (CDF), survival function, hazard function (failure rate), P-P plot, and others. Graphs can be exported to various formats or printed.



SUPPORTED DISTRIBUTIONS:

Continuous: Beta, Cauchy, Chi-Squared, Erlang, Error Function, Exponential, F Distribution, Fatigue Life (Birnbaum-Saunders), Frechet, Gamma, Generalized Extreme Value, Generalized Logistic, Generalized Pareto, Gumbel Max, Gumbel Min, Inverse Gaussian, Johnson SB, Johnson SU, Laplace (Double Exponential), Logistic, Lognormal, Normal, Pareto, Pert, Phased Bi-Exponential, Phased Bi-Weibull, Power Function, Rayleigh, Student’s t, Triangular, Uniform, Wakeby, Weibull.



Discrete: Bernoulli, Binomial, Discrete Uniform, Geometric, Hypergeometric, Logarithmic, Negative Binomial, Poisson.

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The software includes a humidity chart and a unit converter, as well as different unit systems and numeric formats. The humidity chart utility can be used to visualize either the state of a drying gas or an isenthalpic drying process. The unit converter utility covers all chemical engineering units.

The intensive calculations required when modeling a drying process such as the states of moist gas for convective dryers (which constitute over 90% of all industrial dryers) or special state variables (wet-bulb temperature, absolute and relative humidity) are now much easier to perform. It’s time to throw away the ruler and the paper charts!

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StatAssist displays graphs and related properties of more than 40 probability distributions. This application will save you time and prevent calculation errors if your work or study involves the use of continuous or discrete distributions. It allows to quickly select a distribution of interest, specify parameter values, and view the graphs - probability density (PDF), cumulative probability (CDF), survival, hazard, and cumulative hazard. You can easily export the results to various formats, or print them.



With StatAssist, you don’t need complex statistical tables - it calculates moments, quantiles, and tail probabilities as you modify distribution parameters. In addition, it includes an efficient random number generator, a visual distribution gallery, and a comprehensive on-line documentation.



Supported distribution properties: min, max, mode, mean, variance, standard deviation, coef. of variation, skewness, and kurtosis.



Supported distributions: Bernoulli, Beta, Binomial, Cauchy (Lorentz), Chi-Squared, Discrete Uniform, Erlang, Error Function, Exponential, F Distribution, Fatigue Life (Birnbaum-Saunders), Frechet, Gamma, Generalized Extreme Value (GEV), Generalized Logistic, Generalized Pareto, Geometric, Gumbel Max, Gumbel Min, Hypergeometric, Inverse Gaussian, Johnson SB, Johnson SU, Laplace (Double Exponential), Logarithmic, Logistic, Lognormal, Negative Binomial, Normal, Pareto, Pert, Phased Bi-Exponential, Phased Bi-Weibull, Poisson, Power Function, Rayleigh, Student’s t, Triangular, Uniform, Wakeby, Weibull.

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