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We’re hope you are all enjoying the 3SL blog and have found useful, interesting and fun articles.

This morning we noticed the counter creep over the three hundredth blog entry mark.

Looking back we’ve covered everything from announcements about  new Whitepapers to ‘How to‘s on simple Category Validation to more complex Document Publisher Table Generation . We’ve also looked at the stories of the day celebrating engineering excellence such as Ada Lovelace and Pi days to the more bizarre  Towel Day. Our FAQ section has answered customer enquiries about controlling their Hierarchy Diagram output to freeing up licences locked by a user who has gone home and left their machine locked.

Get in touch…

Onward, beyond the three hundredth blog entry we’ll be keeping you up to date with all things 3SL and Cradle (and the odd bonkers story too!)

Have you got a great tip for setting up a schema for a particular engineering or management practice? You could submit a guest article and let us, and other users,  know all about it.

If you mention Cradle in your own company blog, send us the link and we may mention it.

If you’d like see a ‘How To’ on a particular subject, we’ll endeavour to put one together.

Go on, drop us a line and let us know social-customer@threesl.com, call us +44 (0)1229 838867 DM us @threesl

Celebrate a British ‘Programming’ Hero

Ada Lovelace Day

The second Tuesday of October (Ada Lovelace Day 2017) sees the celebration of women’s achievements in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths).

Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace is known for her work on Babbage’s Analytical Engine. By taking maths beyond calculations to create algorithms to run on general machines. To coin a phrase “One of the first computer programmers”

Ada is a structured high-level programming language designed in the late seventies and takes its name from the countess.

ASGs are used to provide a visual representation of the program units (packages, tasks and subprograms) in an Ada software system. You can draw these in Cradle, and of course link them to other Cradle components from requirements to tests.

To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2017 why not  search for “Ada Programming Language”  or draw an ASG! For more information on ASGs see the Cradle help.

Whatever you Carbohydrate Requirement – There’s a Noodle for You!

On International Noodle Day 2017, we celebrate this humble food universally eaten worldwide.  There, are of course, variants, rice, wheat, eggs in various proportions, wholemeal noodles with a higher fibre content and noodles made from courgettes for people who want the convenience of a noodle without the carbs.

Now trying to put a product slant on Noodle Day may appear tricky. We’ve opted for pointing out that Cradle comes in many variants too! From Single user Requirements Management to Multi User Enterprise Product Lifecycle design and control.

So whether today you choose to have them from a pot with boiling water as a lunch time snack or coated in sesame oil and chilli with chicken and shredded pak-choi for your evening meal. Enjoy a Noodle today! #InternationalNoodleDay

Different Views

Now whether you see a Noodle as a type of Pasta or Pasta as a type of Noodle is a topic for debate. World Pasta Day celebrates the multi variants of this card dish. These opinions can be seen as different  viewpoints on the same data (the flour / egg / oil in the recipe). Unlike the traditional classic functional modelling, where the diagram is king, in SysML data is prime. SysML diagrams allow you to show different views on the same data, unlike classic models they don’t need to tell the whole story or balance in the same way.  Different user groups may choose to focus on different aspects of the same project and have the same underlying stereotypes, but offer a different top level perspective in their diagram.

Academic Discount – 3SL Supporting UK Engineering

Get Students – ‘Industry Ready’ Designers

3SL are the Proud Suppliers of Cradle, and recognise the importance to good engineering. We also recognise that when students move into industry it is important that they have the skills necessary to make an impact and hit the ground running.  This is why we are offering copies of our Requirements Management and Systems Engineering tool at a vastly reduced cost under a special academic discount.

We would like to give your students the ability to use industry leading MBSE (Model Based Systems Engineering) tools in Functional Analysis and Design such as Yourdon, or  SysML  (Systems Modelling Language). These link together with the  requirements, constraints, risks and test-cases to produce a fully holistic design. This process is understood by engineers worldwide. Cradle is a fully tailorable cradle-to-grave design management tool.

Cradle Enterprise a Full Multi-user Multi-discipline Design Tool

Whilst you can purchase copies of Cradle that support many aspects of the engineering lifecycle for as little as £249 per seat,  these are not multi user and have some restrictions. In order to collaborate and teach and make use of all the features users would generally install an Enterprise system. They would then licence each of the features they use for their business. Whilst these licences are fully floating, the users share some resources reducing their costs.

Massive Discount –  Save Over £20,000

We would like to offer any academic department who wish to teach Requirements Management or Systems Engineering techniques to their students ten FREE sets of licences for EVERY module in Cradle. This discount for 10 academic licences gives you a product normally costing approximately £22,200 pounds^* All we ask is you pay an annual maintenance cost of £1K.

Demonstration

You can download a trial version of Cradle here. This will give you a 14 day trial. You can request further details about Cradle by contacting salesdetails@threesl.com You can book a Webinar through our website here.

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Continue reading “Teaching Requirements Management and Systems Engineering to Tomorrow’s Engineers”

Opportunities / Jobs with 3SL, producers of Cradle

As an SME 3SL are interested in multi-disciplined individuals to join our team. We value team players who are able to lend a hand to many areas of the business in addition to their core activity. As such, rather than provide a specific job role, we would like to outline the areas that are of most interest to us. For the right individual we will consider creating a suitable role. For more about the opportunities working with 3SL, visit threesl.com/opportunities

It’s National Poetry Day 2017  – Why not have a go?

#NationalPoetryDay 28th September 2017 Freedom

An Engineer’s Lot

Their requirements, and constraints to be met.
My design freedom to inspire and innovate,
Love being an engineer.

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