Modelon Appoints Dr. Hubertus Tummescheit as Chief Solutions Officer

July 20, 2018

Modelon is proud to announce that Dr. Hubertus Tummescheit will assume responsibility as Chief Solutions Officer effective immediately. As Chief Solutions Officer, Dr. Tummescheit will be responsible for architecting and delivering value-added service engagements to Modelon’s global industrial customers, including the delivery of small targeted projects to large scale technology deployment programs. “Hubertus’ appointment is perfectly […]

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FMI Standard: Understand the two types of Functional Mock-up Units – CS v. ME

March 7, 2018

The Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) standard supports two flavors of Functional Mock-up Units (FMU), including: Co-Simulation (CS) and Model Exchange (ME). But, do you know the difference? As an expert in the standard it’s my goal to help users understand the commonalities and differences – getting you to a point in which you’re choosing the […]

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Integrated CO2 Absorption Process in a Coal-Fired Power Plant

January 3, 2018

It’s no secret that global governments are implementing greenhouse gas policies aimed at reducing CO2 emissions. These policies have a direct impact on the  power generation sector as carbon capture and storage technologies are essentially the only option available for fossil-based power generation to drastically reduce their CO2 emissions. So, how will they do it? […]

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Meet FMI’s New Companion Standard, SSP

November 21, 2017

This blog post is relevant for those who are familiar with the Functional Mock-up Interface and are interested in learning about the emerging companion standard, System Structure Parameterization (SSP). The Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) has been a game-changer in simulation technology. In less than ten years it has gone from idea, to research project topic, […]

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Lightning McQueen and Disney Pixar Cars Expose My Day Job

October 17, 2017

Explaining the ins and outs of working at Modelon is never as transparent as it should seem. After watching Cars 3 with my son I found an easier way to explain the challenges customers have and the benefit of model based engineering. Read on…. What do you do for a living? An intrusive question but, […]

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Stabilizing Hydro Power for the Electrical Grid

August 31, 2017

Hydro-power is often associated with conservative and perhaps stagnant technology development.  But, because it has been around for hundreds of years and many countries rely on the output of power, the maintenance and continued support of these plants is critical. Currently, in Iceland 70% of their electricity is produced from hydroelectric power, therefore constant operation […]

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Architecture Based Vehicle Modeling

May 23, 2017

Reviewing Architecture-Based Approaches for Vehicle Modeling All Modelon libraries are developed to adhere to the open-standard, Modelica language. We, at Modelon, thrive in this language standard for many reasons and fully leverage it in the use of templates and model architectures to rapidly create models and model variants. Modelon’s Vehicle Dynamics Library utilizes this template-based […]

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Exa partners with Modelon to explore system level simulation capabilities

April 6, 2017

Modelon, the premier provider of Modelica solutions for model-based systems engineering (MBSE), is pleased to announce a new partnership with Exa® Corporation, a global innovator of simulation software for product engineering. The partnership will enable Exa Corporation to assess Modelon technologies and modules in Exa products. The new partnership aims to deliver Modelon’s MBSE technology […]

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