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Every year COADE continues its finest tradition, each Halloween our employees reveal their true selves. This year was no exception. Please click on the photo to see a bigger image.
Here is a group picture:
And the winners are:
1st place: Hippie (Mandeep Singh)
2nd and 3rd place: divided between the Witch, the Nerd and a Fairy Godmother(Nat and Loren Brown, Galyna Gorelick)
And the Losers are:
Happy Halloween!!
Elvira Ballard
Marketing Assistant
COADE, Inc.
COADE CAESAR II User Group - Houston, TX.
Hosted by COADE Engineering Software
Date/Location: November 19th, 2009 - Houston, TX
Food: Light snacks and refreshments served
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Connect with the Houston CAESAR II user community, share knowledge and best practices, and meet with CAESAR II software developers at the CAESAR II User Group - Houston!
CAESAR II User group discussions will include:
CAESAR II 5.10 overview and capabilities:
CAESAR II 5.20 overview and capabilites:
CAESAR II Q&A session
Discussions on future direction of the CAESAR II User Group - Houston, TX
CAESAR II User Group location:
Houston, Texas. November 19th, 2009. 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Gourmet India
13155 Westheimer Rd. Houston, TX
tel: 281-493-5435
Register for CAESAR II User Group here
Elvira Ballard
Marketing Assistant
COADE, Inc.
with Mark Bross, Anadarko Petroleum Inc.
The just released CADWorx Plant Professional 2010 now includes a support assembly modeler to develop pipe supports that are closer to the real world objects. This highly sought after tool set will allow the user to develop their own pipe support assemblies using multiple support primitives and save these for future use.
Mark Bross, one of the 2009 COADE User Conference instructors, will demonstrate how easy it is to build and use pipe supports with the new pipe support modeler. Please join us for this important webinar.
Speaker bio:
Mark has over 37 years in the petrochemical business starting in 1971. He is currently the Drafting manager for Anadarko Petroleum Inc. and has specialized in plant layout, piping design and has been involved with the AutoCAD community since 1985. He was employed with Adev (Propipe) in the early 1990s and has consulted on other piping design software until switching over to the CADWorx plant design suite in the late 1990s.
with Bill Vasey, ECE Solutions
CADWorx Plant Professional can be used very effectively on hygienic projects.
The pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry has some very unique piping design requirements that CADWorx has been able to address since its introduction in 1996.
This session will demonstrate how to apply the "out of the box" features and functions to create detailed piping designs. ECE will present techniques to model some of the more inline components like Multi-Port diaphragm valves, Sterile Access ports, Filter Housings and alike. In addition, we'll present some techniques to address the "Validation" requirements of this industry such dead legs, sloped piping and weld mapping.
Speaker bio:
Bill Vasey is part owner of ECE Design and has been providing CADWorx technical support for users across the United States and Canada for over 7 years. Bill is a Mechanical Engineer and has over 20 years experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. Bill is an active member with ASME BPE an ISPE. Bill has been consulting with companies worldwide and works with people to improve their skills whilst also improving overall company and project performance. Bill has been responsible for the development of numerous CADWorx Add-ons such as PIDMO and PLANTMO.
And it Just Gets Better...
COADE would like to thank each and every one of you that decided, in these uncertain times, to attend the COADE User Conference 2009, held at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center. Some attendees were very sad it was all over and even left distressed calls for help and solace on our discussion forum :-)
The conference was well attended with 260 attendees representing over 120 companiesfrom 24 countries, including; Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, France, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and of course, the United States, where 22 states (including the Great State of Texas :-) were represented.
The first event, unlike many conferences it was not the keynote but the Sunday afternoon golf tournament that kicked it off. The golf tournament was sponsored by ECAD, Inc. and held at the Woodforest Golf Club, north of The Woodlands. What a great course with attentive and professional staff.
The keynote was delivered in two parts, the first part was delivered by Tom Van Laan and his team showing (live) the integration between COADE's plant design and engineering solutions (details here: COADE Integration) and the second part by guitar virtuoso and funny man Mike Rayburn, who challenged our self limitations by encouraging us to ask 'Why not...?' and What if...?' (CUC2009 speaker info).
The classes were well received and as one attendee said "You guys have got the who's who of stress analysis lecturing." Well that may have been true, but one thing is certain, the level of plant design and engineering instruction and courses covered were to a very high level.
At this event we held the first CADWorx Plant Professional certification tests which was designed to give an accurate indication of the depth of knowledge of those tested. Some failed, many passed and notably two scored 100% - David Wolfe and Rod Abbott. Well done! On passing the advanced test one person was heard to say, "Good, now I get to keep my job," now that's pressure!
Another thing that was notable was the relevancy of the event sponsors that displayed and demonstrated their products and services at this event.
A shout must go out to IT Exchange Group who manged our event with wonderful attention to detail and always ensured that attendees received the best service and care. Our thanks to Dana, Vicki and their staff.
So are we going to do it all again? Oh yes!
Join us next year for the COADE User Conference 2010. For details check the conference website regularly!
Vornel Walker
VP Marketing
COADE, Inc.
