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March 2007 eNewsletter
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In this Issue:
PIPE-FLO Stock 2007 Is Here!	PIPE-FLO Feature of the Month
2007 FLO-MASTER Seminars	ESI Around the Globe
Program Bulletin - Windows Vista

PIPE-FLO Stock 2007 Is Here! New Version, More Features PIPE-FLO Stock 2007 is available to download for TechNet Plus subscribers or for purchase as of the third week in March 2007. PIPE-FLO Stock is our PIPE-FLO product made especially for piping systems transporting slurries of paper stock used in the production of paper and newsprint. The newest features include: Isometric Grids with Smart Text Copy & Paste from one PIPE-FLO system file to another Create custom piping symbols with a built in Symbol Editor Optimize the system quicker with the AutoCalc feature Change your fluid properties in your lineup New integrated support for flow meters and balancing orifices Enhanced graphing support for manually entered pump curves Bidirectional communications with Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheets And much more! For more information about PIPE-FLO Stock 2007: http://www.eng-software.com/products/pipeflo/stock Don’t forget, with the release of the PIPE-FLO Stock 2007, all legacy versions of the software older than version 8 are no longer supported. If you have a version that is 2005 or older, we are still offering upgrade value. If you would like to upgrade to the latest version of PIPE-FLO Stock, now is the time. For more information, please call us at (800) 786-8545 or email us at sales@eng-software.com back to top PIPE-FLO Feature of the Month Part 2: Importing design data into your Excel® spreadsheets In January, we covered how to pull design and calculated data from PIPE-FLO and into an Excel spreadsheet using the new 2007 PIPE-FLO feature called X-Link. Today’s issue will cover how to import Excel data into your PIPE-FLO system as well as how to set up some basic controls in Excel. Import data into PIPE-FLO using X-Link: This feature is valuable anytime you wish to manipulate your PIPE-FLO system from Excel. Specifically, importing process control data from any program which reports in Excel format (Aspen Tech IP.21 or OSISoft Pi to name a few) can be beneficial to assess the running conditions of your plant. For example: If you have tank levels from your process control data interface that you want to feed back into PIPE-FLO and see how your system should be running with this tank condition. If you want to decrease the pipe diameter of all pipes in you system with a fluid velocity less than 2 ft/s to prevent sediment in the pipeline. If your customer has decided on a different naming scheme for their pipelines and you have just completed designing their system of 14,000 pipelines in PIPE-FLO and dread going back to rename them pipe by pipe. Pull the information into Excel, manipulate the names, then import them back into PIPE-FLO and you can accomplish these tasks in minutes. Set up controls within Excel using your PIPE-FLO data: The ability to set up controls (list boxes and/or drop down boxes) can be valuable to allow additional customization of your systems design data or results. For example: You want to create a customized data sheet for reporting the system design information and results to your manager or external customers. You have an existing Excel spreadsheet tool and wish to include PIPE-FLO data using list boxes or drop down boxes. For more information, or to read the full article on Importing design data into Excel Spreadsheets click here: http://www.eng-software.com/kb/item.aspx?article=1457 In case you missed it, January’s article: Exporting design data into your Excel spreadsheets can be found in the knowledge base at: http://www.eng-software.com/kb/item.aspx?article=1444 back to top Training Opportunity Pump training courses offered by noted Consultant and Author, Michael Volk. Volk has been a consultant on pumps for the past 25 years, and has worked in engineering and operations with one of the world’s leading pump manufacturers. He authored Pump Characteristics and Applications, a highly acclaimed pump applications handbook. Volk has taught hundreds of pump courses worldwide, including the most successful course ever held at the prestigious International Pump Users Symposium for the last ten years. Classes are for engineers, maintenance technicians, pump sales and applications personnel, and will be held: April 16-18 El Segundo, CA Visit www.volkassociates.com/seminars.html for more information.	2007 FLO-MASTER Seminars Register Now for April Training Class The first FLO-MASTER Seminar for 2007 went a success! The next class will be held in Memphis, April 11th and 12th at the University of Memphis. Seats are on sale now! The seminars are two days, with the second day completely focused on real-world examples and hands-on use of the program. Examples will include advanced pump selection, variable frequency drive analysis, advanced controls, balancing a system, system expansion and building a system from scratch. 2007 FLO-MASTER Schedule: Memphis: April 11-12 Philadelphia: May 10-11 Click below to find out more about the upcoming FLO-MASTER Seminars or call (800) 786-8545. The seminars qualify for 15 Professional Development Hours needed to fulfill Professional Engineers’ continuing education requirements in many states. Onsite FLO-Master training classes are also available and can be conducted on your site for up to 12 attendees, saving you time away from the office. Our expert instructors deliver onsite training to you and your plant staff. For more information or for a schedule of FLO-Master Seminar dates call (800) 786-8545 or email info@eng-software.com. back to top Program Bulletin PIPE-FLO and Windows Vista Compatibility The new release of PIPE-FLO and Flow of Fluids (2007) will run on Windows Vista however, we have identified certain compatibility issues: The Print to PDF function requires the download of an updated driver for Windows Vista. You can download the PDF driver from this article. The Verification Key drivers that were installed with the versions 2005 or earlier of PIPE-FLO and Flow of Fluids are not Vista compatible; users need to install the new driver which can be found in this article Until the driver is updated Vista will not recognize the hardware key and the program will not run. Because the users My Documents path has been renamed in Windows Vista to Documents, there are potential issues regarding the data files. If your copy of Vista is not upgraded to the latest patches, you may encounter problems installing older versions of PIPE-FLO or Flow of Fluids. Users who had earlier versions (2005 or earlier) installed prior to updating to Vista may be unable to locate the previously installed data tables and piping projects. This can be corrected by browsing to the Documents path on the Tools/Preferences screen of PIPE-FLO/Flow of Fluids. Click here to read the entire article on Windows Vista compatibility issues.
		ESI Around the Globe
		After such a successful event at the Pump Symposium in Houston, we would like to thank all that stopped in to our booth. In the last two months, we have been focusing our efforts abroad, now we are bringing our attentions back home. Since we have been growing in size, ESI needed to increase the size of our headquarters. We expanded into the office next door. It may be a little noisy around here but we are very excited for the added space. We will hopefully be finished with the moving process by the beginning of April!
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