Development Priorities for Materials Properties
Beginning with the 2020a release, we added materials properties to our databases in addition to the standard thermodynamic data, for instance viscosity, surface tension, thermal conductivity and more. This new property data is essential for simulating the mass and heat transfer in material manufacturing processes, for example casting and 3D printing, but it is usually not available in a composition specific form. In this year’s survey, we asked you about which properties data you would like us to add. Your responses showed great interest in all the materials properties we asked you to evaluate. Our directors are reviewing your responses closely and will use them to steer our roadmap. Stay tuned for more information about which new materials properties will be included in upcoming releases.
Many Requests for Advanced Videos
Over the last years, based on our feedback from previous surveys, we have worked to improve our documentation. These efforts have proved worthwhile. The numbers indicate that most of you consider the documentation to have improved since 2016, and that it keeps improving. This year, we also asked for feedback regarding our video tutorials. The videos proved to be appreciated by many of you. There were also many requests for more advanced videos that discuss the applications of our software, as well as videos showing how to use TC-Python. Based on this feedback, we will begin creating these types of videos. You should see them coming out as early as spring 2021. We will also re-make some of the older videos, as they are losing usefulness with age.
94 Percent Satisfaction in Customer Support
Our ratings for customer support have increased over the years in all the categories we ask about. The overall experiences you have had with our customer support score high. Many of your kind comments are truly heartwarming. You also report to be satisfied with the Maintenance and Support Subscriptions. Some of you mentioned that it occasionally takes a while to get a response from us. This tends to happen when an issue is passed from our general support team to our product specialists. We have made it a priority to address this and improve our response time. As a first step, we have begun the process of migrating to a new support system, which will help us provide a smoother and faster process when you contact us. We hope to have this new system fully implemented by mid-2021.