Select Mesh only and Files of Type CD-adapco CCM files (.ccm). Open WinSCP and find home directory. The real value of technical support is being able to contact a dedicated support engineer (DSE), so our customers can talk to that engineer directly.Adapco was born, almost fully formed, out of the Nuclear Industry, which in the late 60s had begun to employ numerical simulation as a tool for understanding some of the structural issues involved in designing nuclear power plants.cd. I recently met up with them at the company headquarters in New York, with the aim of discovering how the company got started.Steve Portal is CD-adapco's customer knowledge base with more than 1, 500 of engineering answers, videos, and case scenarios to common problem that people are trying to solve with our software. Those three engineers were Steve MacDonald, Bill Wheeler, and Marc Whittlesey and the company that they formed was adapco (a company that would eventually become CD-adapco). Their intention was to apply the numerical simulation technology that was beginning to emerge from the nuclear industry to the wider set of engineering problems faced by industry as a whole.
It was a fairly lucrative business because there was a federal law that said you had to do analysis of all the safety related equipment in a nuclear power plant. Steve had lots of connections from his previous jobs so we ended up working on steam generators, pressure vessels, and things like that. They had their own piping stress code, and they were doing lots and lots of piping stress analysis, although we didn’t get much involved with that. "That was the primary business of the company. Almost immediately, MacDonald, Wheeler and Whittlesey began to increase the scope of the engineering simulation employed by EDS."We were doing finite element analysis for the nuclear power industry," says Bill Wheeler.
"EDS gave us a charter for about a year to try to work non-nuclear programs. And we both just said, ‘That’s going to burst this bubble we’ve been working in.’""Steve convinced the company we were working for, EDS Nuclear, that maybe they should broaden their horizons with the gloomy outlook of the nuclear power industry," continues Bill Wheeler. "And when we landed, we heard about the Three Mile Island accident. It was the worst accident in US commercial nuclear power plant history, and ultimately led to the cancellation of 51 US nuclear reactors that were planned to be built from 1980 to 1984."Steve and I were on a plane going to Pittsburgh to talk to some people at Westinghouse," recalls Bill Wheeler.
We were probably going to go anyway three months later.""The thing that I remember is that when we left EDS Nuclear, they had about 900 people in the United States doing piping support stress analysis," says Bill Wheeler."By 1982, they had zero. So we were pushed out maybe a little early. "Which was interesting because I had a wife and three kids and I had a mortgage, as did Marc and Bill, and so it was time for us to go to work. Word got back to the management of EDS Nuclear.""The three of us were in Napa Valley at a training session for this large 1,000- man company, and we were terminated," continues Steve MacDonald. "And, of course, me being a person who tended to open his mouth too much, and still does, I’d talk about it to people. However, they were forced to put those plans into action rather more quickly when the EDS management got wind of them."We formed our company, went down and took out the name and everything, so we actually had a company before we left," says Steve MacDonald.
"The company name, Analysis and Design Application Company, was about our fourth or fifth choice. That was very obvious to all of us."So, from the embers of the Nuclear Industry, adapco was born, initially as a four-person outfit (the fourth person was Joe Sklarin, a minority shareholder in the original business) that operated out of Bill Wheeler’s attic in Long Island."We actually incorporated a company in the late summer of 1980," remembers Bill Wheeler. I think we all understood we had to do something because the nuclear bubble had burst. It was kind of a necessity.
And that was Steve," says Bill Wheeler. That’s really where we got the name, it wasn’t Steve’s first choice.""It was also obvious that there was only going to be one person who was electable as president. So,We wound up using Analysis and Design Application Company Limited, and abbreviated to adapco. But the New York state government said they were too close to somebody else’s name and wouldn’t let us have that.
That was the solution to my personal dislike of authority. But I’m not sure that he had the patience that Mark and I had to work a problem."Steve MacDonald agrees: "Well, I always say that I wanted to be the president and I worked long enough to know that I would never make president in a highly structured company, so my solution to that was to go form my own company and appoint myself. He was also a very, very technically savvy engineer. That was his really strong point. Steve is a natural leader, he had the unique ability to communicate and convince people to give him whatever he needed.
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Something that you didn’t know how to do at the time but you knew you had to get done in a limited amount of time and that 'Necessity really is the mother of invention.'"This "pushing the boundaries" is a common theme. But that’s what makes you smart, you know, it gives you a challenge. "Of course Steve’s focus was on getting the work and thinking of the new methods and of course that caused me a lot of consternation at times, when he would sell something based on a promise and we had no idea how to do this and it would drop on my desk. Bill Wheeler was the ultimate technocrat, he was always looking for the best way to skin the cat and so forth, and I was kinda the do-er, the guy that was really good at getting simulations running, and the results out of the door.""So, that mix tended to work fairly well and it kept us out of technical trouble," remembers Marc Whittlesey. "Steve was the ideas guy, the guy that liked to meet with the customers, go out, sell the work, that became very apparent right from the get-go. I did a lot of things that turned out to be good enough so that we didn’t go out of business.""The three of us had things that we each brought to the mix," says Marc Whittlesey.
"If you get your boundary conditions wrong, then you’re in trouble.
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