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BUSINESS NEWS OGSYSTEMS RELEASES NEXT GENERATION PEARL PRODUCT LINE OGSystems, a leader in technology innovation for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, announced the latest updates to the PeARL 3-D aerial imaging system and PeARL Flash, their sensor agnostic, 2-D/3-D enterprise level image processing system. “There is a persistent need for access to geospatially accurate 3-D processing of full motion video, wide area motion imagery, satellite and airborne imagery data from unmanned aerial vehicles, manned airborne platforms, and space based platforms,” said Hector Cuevas, associate partner leading OGSystems’ Portland, Oregon operations. “The PeARL product line enables the fusion of multi sensor content into a single, dynamic 3-D processing pipeline that continuously delivers the most accurate and high fidelity product into the hands of military, intelligence, civil and humanitarian mission planning teams.” OGSystems’ PeARL Flash generates user defined, on demand 3-D derivative products such as digital terrain models, digital surface models, and true color encoded point clouds directly from 2-D imagery and allows customers to rapidly process aerial imagery and then view results over a secure internet connection. Companies specializing in aerial image acquisition can upload their data after landing and view seamless, orthorectified maps within hours.

The next generation PeARL 6 sensor provides four-centimeter ground sample distance at 10,000 feet above ground level with nearly a 2,000-yard configurable swath width, resulting in drastic resolution, color, and blooming suppression improvement from the previous generation PeARL 5 sensor, and features significantly decreased size, weight, and power requirements. OGSystems showcased PeARL and PeARL Flash during the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s 2017 GEOINT Symposium on June 4-7 in San Antonio, Texas. GOENGINEER PARTNERS WITH DESKTOP METAL TO OFFER BEST-IN-CLASS METAL 3-D PRINTING SOLUTIONS: ACCESSIBLE 3-D PRINTING SYSTEM FOR METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TO COMPLEMENT PLASTIC 3D PRINTING GoEngineer, a leading reseller of SOLIDWORKS 3-D CAD software, Stratasys 3-D printers, Creaform 3-D scanners, CAMWorks, and Oracle’s Agile PLM, announced its partner agreement with Desktop Metal, a company committed to making metal additive manufacturing accessible to manufacturers and engineers. “We are proud to partner with GoEngineer,” says Desktop Metal’s CEO and Co-Founder Ric Fulop. “GoEngineer will be a key partner to help us fulfill our mission to make metal 3-D printing more accessible, and we are excited to have such a respected team supporting our products and customers.”

In April, Desktop Metal launched the Studio System and Production System, covering the full product lifecycle – from prototyping to mass production – which mark a fundamental shift in how products will be developed and brought to market. The Studio System is the first office-friendly metal 3-D printing system for rapid prototyping. The Production System is the fastest 3-D printing system for mass production of high-resolution metal parts today. “We are excited to be delivering metal 3-D printing capabilities to our customers who have been asking for an innovative metal 3-D printing solution,” says GoEngineer CEO Brad Hansen. “This is the perfect complement to our Stratasys 3-D printing technologies because we can now enable our customers to accelerate time to market by producing both plastic and metal prototypes.” GoEngineer continues its three decade mission to provide leading technology solutions so its customers can improve manufacturing processes to outpace their competition. “Our customers didn’t just want metal printing technology,” says Tyler Reid, GoEngineer’s manufacturing application manager. “They wanted metal printing that was as simple, affordable, safe, and easy to use as plastic printing – and now we have it!”

If you take the time now to build out the profile of the type or types of people that will work well in your company, you will be ahead of your competition. I can guarantee that a lot of people talk about culture in their firm, but they don’t always follow it up with action when it comes to ensuring that they get the right people for the right jobs. At Zweig Group, we can usually figure out pretty quickly who will work out and who won’t. Our cultural standards, while shifting some due to generational change, are firmly embedded. I would love to know what is working for your firm when it comes to your employees and the underlying culture of your organization, and how you use that information to hire the next generation of great talent. Email me! RANDY WILBURN is director of executive search at Zweig Group. Contact him at rwilburn@zweiggroup.com. “I can guarantee that a lot of people talk about culture in their firm, but they don’t always follow it up with action when it comes to ensuring that they get the right people for the right jobs.”

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There is no single program where you can enter in all the talents and attributes of your current top employees and have it spit out the profiles of future prospective hires. But, you can create a baseline of your talent expectation by using available personality tests, currently on the market, to figure out what the standard for your organization is. I know that personally I cringe at the idea of personality tests, but there are some perfectly good applications available to help you be successful with the hiring process. “If you take the time now to build out the profile of the type or types of people that will work well in your company, you will be ahead of your competition.” Several programs that come to mind include, but are not limited to, Strengthsfinder 2.0 (gallupstrengthscenter. com), the Disc Profile (discprofile.com), and the Myers- Briggs Type Indicator (myersbriggs.org). Each of these tests can be used with current employees to determine the profile of your best people and help you to make solid future hires.

THE ZWEIG LETTER July 10, 2017, ISSUE 1207

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