It’s the first episode of Season 04 & we’re back with the usual problem - how to condense 25+ years experience running a simulation business into a single episode. We fail (as usual) but it still makes for an interesting show.

In this episode I’m talking with Eric Miller, one of founding team of PADT – an expert simulation consultancy which first opened its doors 25 years ago this year.

Eric shares his thoughts on:

• migrating from an internal research group at a large company to an autonomous small business
• the evolution of their computing from SGI Octane through the Pentium revolution and on into the cloud
• whether the current crop of open-source tools make commercial software a harder sell?
• where the simulation “low-hanging fruit” has gone & how consultants need to be extracting higher value from their simulation tools
• building the kind of business where it’s a pleasure to come to work in the morning

Links

• PADT – https://www.padtinc.com/ • Connect with Eric on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/emillerphx • All Things ANSYS podcast – http://www.padtinc.com/blog/podcast/ • The book Eric mentioned – https://www.amazon.com/dp/111943470X