Teaching Requirements Management and Systems Engineering to Tomorrow’s Engineers

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.

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System Design

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

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Discount

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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Opportunities at 3SL

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

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Opportunities with 3SL, producers of Cradle

Cradle-7.3.1 Released

New Cradle Release

We are pleased to announce the release of  Cradle-7.3.1, with some useful new features and some fixes. We’ll be sending announcement e-mails to all customers with active maintenance, and e-mails to the customers whose enhancements have been added, and whose reported bugs have been fixed.

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Cradle 7.3.1

Some of the new features in this release are:

  • Excel Capture Utility, allow auto numbered items to be created when a column is mapped to the Identity attribute and the identity is blank.
  • Update Windows builds to support Microsoft .NET Framework v4.7.
  • Performance improvement in Doc Viewer control.
  • Web Access, for a parametric query using category picklists, display the picklist in the parametric UI.
  • Allow multi-value view cell containing ID, Key etc., to trigger heading behaviour in Document View
  • Improve Schema Report – Coloursets.

Upgrading

If you upgrade to Cradle-7.3.1 anywhere, you must upgrade everywhere, the server and all clients. Visit the download area.

If you are upgrading from a version prior to Cradle-7.3 you will require a Security Code. Contact our Support Department to get your new Security Code.

Customers who purchased a single-user Cradle-7.3 product can also apply this new release.

World Tourism Day 27th September 2017

Package Up

One of the most popular vacations is the package holiday. A Package Diagram is a popular SysML grouping of system components. It shows components and sub systems in a hierarchical manner. In the same way as our Package Holiday would contain flights, accommodation and possible a day out or two. Your system may comprise of housings,  machinery and software or packages. It may contain, tablets and microbial formula or road networks, service stations and petrol pumps.

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Package Diagram

Whatever your system and subsystems or comprise, breaking down the model into its components makes managing development and change easier. The Package diagram in SysML does not have to show all components, but it can usefully draw to mind those that are dependent or interrelated in some way.

Go on Holiday, be a Tourist!

If your business is well organised and you have confidence in your systems, enjoying a break should not be a worry. Feel free on World Tourism Day, which promotes sustainable holidaying, to plan your next vacation, or purchase a package from 3SL.

Talk Like A Pirate Day 2017

Aye, It Be Talk Like a Pirate Day

19th Sept 2017

“So me Lads and Lasses, what brings you to 3SL’s shores today?”

“You say your project’s all headed to Davy Jones’s locker?” “What do you say you’ve been using to organise it?”

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Pirate

“Parchment and a pen ye say? Well no surprise it’s not shipshape”

“A landlubber salesman wanted how much silver to give you tools for the job?” “Shiver me timbers, that’d be a right hornswaggle of a deal. Let me at him and I’ll have the scallywag keelhauled” “He’s trying to make you into shark bait, he’ll give pirates a bad name”

“Trust an old seadog like me, more of a privateer you see. Here to keep the pirate salesmen at bay. If you cross me palm with a mere four hundred coins I’ll have ye a top of the range tool for the job. What more could ye want?”

 

SE Pro version of single user Cradle
Cradle SE Pro

You’ don’t need to talk like a pirate to speak with 3SL, and we certainly won’t be giving you a bad deal. With Single user products in the £249 to £399(Sept 2017 prices) and competitive Enterprise products, there’s always a Cradle to suit your loot.

Banking Changes

Changes to 3SL Bank Account Numbers

In response to the 2008 financial crisis, the UK Government has decided that all major banks must protect their personal, retail and most business banking operations from their more risky, often speculative, investment banking and international banking operations.

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City Banks

Most major banks in the UK will do this by  creating a new ‘ring fenced‘ banking operation that is protected from future problems in the financial markets.

Most of the UK’s major banks will effect this change in April 2018.

For 3SL, these banking changes will mean that there will be a new BIC (bank identifier code) within the IBAN (international bank account number) of all of our bank accounts. In  effect, all of the IBANs for our bank accounts will change in April 2018.

It is also possible that banking changes may effect another part of our bank account numbers, called the sort code (similar to the ATA, routing number or branch number codes in other countries’ banking systems). If there is a change to our sort code, the change is likely to occur in January 2018.

If you are an international supplier to 3SL, or one of our international customers, then it is possible that our IBANs will change in January 2018, and they will definitely change in April 2018 when the new ‘ring fenced’ bank in Barclays PLC receives its new BIC.

All of these changes are being completed in advance of the UK Government’s deadline of January 2019.

Our current IBANs will remain available for 36 months after the change in April 2018.

We apologise for the inconvenience that these changes will cause to our UK and international customers and suppliers.

 

Updates:

6th June 2018 – Barclays have confirmed the new SWIFT BIC code is BUKBGB22. Our sort code and account numbers have stayed the same but our IBAN numbers have changed. Please contact salesdetails@threesl.com to request our IBAN numbers.

Star Trek Day 2017

Happy #StarTrekDay 2017

Celebrate the forward vision of Roddenberry of a collaborative World where we all work together to keep the peace.

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The 3SL Enterprise

OK to celebrate so you could just go and watch all the episodes of Trek, or you could think about the future…

Let your projects live long and prosper. Boldly go into the known with #3SL Enterprise the full muti-user  version  of Cradle. Don’t leave things to chance, plan your requirements and link with your designs to ensure a fully traceable deliverable system.

 

Letter Writing Day 2017

Remember Personal Communication –  Letter Writing Day.

In these days of mass communication, where one ‘letter’ is emailed to hundreds of recipients or a comment is Tweeted (is that really a verb) to gazillions, it is still really personal to write.

Think how much nicer a Birthday card on the shelf is, (was going to say mantelpiece but in modern underfloor heated super insulated homes there probably isn’t a fireplace), compared to a e-Post “Hiya”. It shows someone has put time and thought into writing to you personally.

www.daysoftheyear.com/days/letter-writing-day   #letterwritinday

We are as guilty as the next, in not sending individual letters to all our customers. Instead we ask you to sign up to our newsletter and then write to you once a month. You’ll find our newsletter easier to read than if we had to hand write it out thousands of times!

So think of a friend or a loved one. Find some paper and a pen and jot them a note, send them a post card, or draw them a doodle.

If you’ve not got enough time, then you could just print out the following, sign and send it. You’ll need an envelope and a stamp……

 

Letter requesting quotation
Letter to 3SL

Race Your Mouse Round the Icons Day 2017

Race Your Mouse

Did you know it was really a thing? Well, apparently it is. (Search for Race Your Mouse Round the Icons Day, or visit Days Of The Year). It’s celebrated on the 28th August.

Here in  England, Northern Ireland and Wales it is a bank holiday, so this is something you can ;

  • try at home if it is raining (it is a English bank holiday after all)
  • you have to be in work in case someone contacts you, but nobody does because it is a bank holiday
  • do if you’re in work, with IT that is less than responsive, and you want something to amuse yourself while the application loads.

Screen Background

Try downloading this background and arranging your icons. (click the small image to open a full size version and then right click and save as background)

Screen icon race track
Screen icon race track

If you need to contact 3SL during the bank holiday, please use your local distributors, or send an email to support@threesl.com and we’ll pick it up on Tuesday 29th.