EKK, Inc. Newsletter - 2nd Quarter 2006


2006 User Meeting

We held our annual user's meeting this year on June 6th. At this annual meeting, both our software development and our metal casting consulting teams meet with our users to discuss the current state of our software, potential software improvements, as well as how to use our software more effectively.

This year's agenda was:

9:00 - 9:30    Welcome
9:30 - 10:30
   CAPCAST Updates Part I - Ken Siersma
10:30 - 10:45    Break
10:45 - 12:00    CAPCAST Updates Part II - Ken Siersma
12:00 - 1:00
   Lunch
1:00 - 2:15    Technical Presentations
      2005 Nadca Computer Fair - Marty McLaughlin
      Thermal Correlations - David May, with Madison-Kipp Corp.
      Preview of New EKK Website - David May
2:15 - 2:30    Break
2:30 - 3:00    Hardware / OS Recommendations - Ken Siersma
3:00 - End    Open discussion, hints and tips

Highlights of this year's user meeting include:

All presentations and software updates are included on the user meeting CD. Those who did not attend the user meeting should be receiving their CDs in the first or second week of July. In the meantime, current customers can view the presentations now by logging into the restricted area of our website.


New addition to EKK

This past April we hired Paul Suchyta as a Co-Op Student. Paul is currently an undergraduate at Michigan State University, studying Computer Engineering. We've been breaking him in over these past couple months and now that he's up to speed we've got him working on developing our own GUI for CAPFLOW.


Did You Know?

Our thermal analysis software for quite some time has had the ability to regulate interfaces according to temperatures at specific locations in the mold. This functionality is most commonly used to model thermocouple controlled cooling lines and heaters. Call EKK to find out how!


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