Michel Pons (CO-LaN Chief Technology Officer) visited today Akzo Nobel Chemicals in Arnhem, The Netherlands. Michel Pons presented (PDF, 2682 Kbytes) to ten engineers and researchers what is CAPE-OPEN, what CAPE-OPEN permits to end-users and what is the CAPE-OPEN Laboratories Network .
Questions asked dealt for example with the link between CFD tools and process simulators, performance issues, granularity of CAPE-OPEN UNIT Operations components, use of CAPE-OPEN Property Packages within MATLAB, use of CAPE-OPEN technology in operator training tools.