Verifications of our modules
“ENERCALC is a black box”
This is a concern we’ve heard from time to time over ENERCALC’s 40+ years.
In some ways it was intentional. We wanted to build a product that had engineering inside, but simplified the process so you could get your work done and get home for dinner on time.
The world has changed a bit since ENERCALC’s early days. Today, everything must be defensible. Provable. Documented. We understand, and the need for more transparency is legitimate.
We are working to add more intermediate values and related details in the modules. We still make it so these things aren’t overwhelming, because they certainly can be. We want our users to have the details they need to feel confident.
We’ve been working at this bit by bit because our users asked for it. It’s a big job, but that’s ok. We hope you like what we’ve done so far, and yes, some of these efforts are under construction.
A primary reason for these updates and additional features is that we want to demonstrate one of our core values, transparency, in a better and more useful way.
Jacques Pierini, PE
PE, Inc. Little Rock, AR
ENERCALC user for over 25 years
Office Hours was the turning point
When we started Office Hours in April 2024, we wanted to add yet another way of being more available to engineers – it’s open to everyone, not just our active subscribers.
We did the same with our trial software, which is now a full copy of the software. No limitations like we had in the old demo. Now, you can see what we have without guesswork or assumptions. You can do real work with it and figure out if ENERCALC is a good fit.
When we started doing Office Hours sessions, our engineering team worked on hand calc verifications to clearly document the program’s process step-by-step and explain results to our users. Those hand calcs became part of the presentations. Not the CEO’s idea. Our engineers decided to do that.
Since we have the hand calcs for the modules we’ve presented, and they are recent (OH started in April 2024), it seemed natural to share them here.
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