Engineering numbers: the hidden oppportunity | True Engineering Technology

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"[Truenumbers]addresses a set of problems that I think engineers have simply assumed cannot be solved."

- Chad Jackson, Lifecycle Insights*

What we do. True Engineering Technology is a software solutions company founded by Mathcad inventor Allen Razdow. Our innovative truenumbers® framework helps groups and departments improve their productivity, traceability and engineering quality by managing their most pervasive kind of engineering data: numbers. Uncertainty about the meaning or origins of numbers in spreadsheets, documents or any application, is common. Such uncertainties cost time and money in terms of verification, re-work, and risk of errors. Truenumbers are a new kind of number that eliminates these problems, with the potential to change the way engineering works..

The problem we solve. Engineering is about numbers, but numbers are more than digits. They need supporting information to give them meaning, like what a number measures, in what units, where it came from and why. This key data is today loosely written as text in documents or email, spreadsheet comments, or maybe not at all. Over time, it gets worse because as numbers are copied and quoted across projects and departments, supporting information is altered, incompletely copied, or just left behind. Numbers quickly become more mystery than fact, reducing productivity, incurring V&V costs, and increasing risk of error. The informality of numbers is a major problem for engineering that has gone unnoticed, because it has always been that way.

How we solve it. The truenumbers® framework is a radically new social technology for numbers that works with your standard Office tools, yet centralizes management of numbers in a hosted or private cloud. Truenumbers (a special kind of hyperlink) live in your documents, but also in a numberflow® server where groups can share and search them with a flexible tagging model, and broadcast critical changes with RSS. It can store your standard engineering data, but more importantly, the estimates, guesses, and ad-hoc hand-calculations you create and use daily as designs evolve.

Contact us to discuss your requirements, and opportunities for truenumbers to enhance engineering quality and productivity, compliance and reuse in your company. At the group, departmental or enterprise level.