Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in East Greenwich, RI

AdvEnSoft, Inc. is an independent software vendor with a United States office in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and a sister company, AdvEnSoft Consultants Pvt Ltd, in Kolkata, India, where the firm places its headquarters. Established in 1999, it builds tailored software for manufacturers of engineered products and has customers around the world. Buyers comparing Business Intelligence providers will notice that its analytics work is aimed at engineering and manufacturing operations rather than general corporate reporting.

What the company does

The core of the business is automating the many steps between a customer inquiry and a finished, supported product. AdvEnSoft develops custom systems that cover quoting, application engineering, product design, advanced multiphysics analysis, testing, inspection, manufacturing and lifecycle management. The firm says it is expanding its predictive analytics practice, particularly for engineering problems, and combines statistical simulation and analytics with a virtual prototyping environment so that clients can try out designs before committing to physical builds.

• Engineering Process Management, which borrows business process management principles for engineering workflows
• Integrated product engineering and configuration management
• Simulation-driven product development using multiphysics and statistical methods
• Predictive analytics for engineering data
• CAD/CAM integration and product lifecycle support

Approach and rationale

AdvEnSoft builds its pitch around indirect, or overhead, product costs: sales, customer service, administration, engineering, quality control, testing, rework and warranty. It argues that in many US manufacturing sectors these costs can be one to five times the direct cost of making a product. Lean and Six Sigma programs have already delivered large gains on the direct side, so the company maintains that meaningful further savings depend on improving the processes behind each product.

To support this view, the firm cites a 2014 book by McKinsey researchers, Resource Revolution, which argues that companies need far bigger annual productivity gains than the traditional few percent. Of the five approaches described there, AdvEnSoft says it addresses three: waste elimination through more efficient processes, optimization, and virtualization. It also stresses that engineering tasks are complex, require specialist knowledge and differ widely between companies, even within the same field, which is why it favors custom-built solutions.

Products and alliances

Its best-known product is CADRotor, developed with Dr. Brian Murphy, whose company produces the XLRotor analysis software. The add-on connects to popular 3D CAD packages such as SolidWorks and Inventor, identifying and defining the rotating assembly with minimal user input so the geometry can be captured quickly and without errors for analysis in XLRotor. A 30-day trial policy is offered, and a brochure can be downloaded. The company also lists a related product called RotorModeler.

Alliances extend beyond rotordynamics:

• Rotating Machinery Analysis, Inc., active since 1994 in software for modeling and analyzing rotating equipment
• LitMass Analytics, an Indian company focused on operational, HR, and risk and compliance analytics
• Optimation, a supplier of nesting and numerical-control programming tools for cutting sheet and plate material, which also co-developed wire EDM cutting software for diamond wafers
• Dr. Diganta Mukherjee of the Indian Statistical Institute, a faculty member with over 50 publications whose interests include simulation and predictive analysis, and who advises the Multi Commodity Exchange of India and the Reserve Bank of India

Industries, values and team

The company lists automotive, aerospace, aerodynamics, mechanical industry, production and NGO work among the sectors it serves. It names teamwork, clarity, avoiding assumptions, long-term relationships, trustworthiness and innovation as guiding values. Leadership sits with President Dr. Prit Basu, and development staff work in both the United States and India. Prospective clients can request a free initial consultation. For manufacturers seeking analytics grounded in engineering simulation and process data, AdvEnSoft presents a specialized, technically focused option.