AFT History

AFT: A Recognized International Leader in Pipe Flow Modeling Software

For 25 years and counting, AFT is, and has been, a recognized international leader in pipe flow modeling software. We work with 40 international distribution partners and serve over 80 countries. Our portfolio of industries and projects is impressive with proven success helping engineers simulate, analyze and build anything from simple to highly complex systems.

Throughout our 25 years, AFT has worked hand-in-hand with some of the world’s best and brilliant engineers. In 1994, Trey Walters, P.E. laid a solid foundation that AFT has been able to build on. The software tool he initially developed have continuously increased in ability and have allowed engineers to do more with their designs and stretch their possibilities beyond what they thought was possible.

AFT has taken technology that once had to be sourced to experts and have created tools that everyday engineers can use to accomplish the same goals. 

AFT has had the honor of being a part of innovative projects and providing challenging solutions. With the knowledge that what our software is used for is highly proprietary, we take great pride in showcasing a database of case studies which high-profile industries around the globe have shared so we can give others a glimpse into how industries utilize the technology. But we know this is only the tip of the iceberg.

When engineers have issues they have never seen before, AFT has the answer. There is not much we haven’t seen and haven’t been able to fix. That’s because AFT engineers go the extra mile in all directions to ensure efficiency, safety and accuracy.

 

We have helped design and troubleshoot an array of models used within the power, aerospace, water/wastewater, chemical, and of course oil & gas industries, just to name a few. Engineers in any industry use our software for systems ranging from simple verification models, to highly intense waterhammer/surge or pulsation mitigation.

AFT software tools exist to help engineers in two primary ways:

  1. Ensure accurate and safe designs to prevent issues and build efficiently.
  2. Quickly troubleshoot so systems can get back to production as quickly and cost efficiently as possible.

AFT looks forward to many more years of helping engineers who help us as much as we help them. Throughout our 25 years, AFT has befriended engineers who tell us their stores and give us honest feedback on what they need. These conversations do not fall on deaf ears. In our future travels we hope to meet whoever is reading this so you too can share your stories and challenge us to continue to be an innovative organization ourselves.

Thank you for your friendships, your partnerships, and cheers to many more years of innovative engineering.

 

25 Moments in History

January 1992

Trey Walters, P.E. was working as a rocket engineer when he conceived of a graphical pipe flow analysis software for Microsoft Windows 3.1. As a hobby he began to work on the graphics and hydraulic solution algorithms

January 1992

September 14, 1993

Trey left his full-time job and founded AFT in Louisville, Ohio. He operated out of his basement (Global HQ in the basement)

April 12, 1994

AFT Fathom™ 1.0 was released. It was the world’s first graphical pipe flow analysis product for Microsoft Windows

April 12, 1994

May 25, 1994

Only six weeks AFT Fathom 1.0 was released, AFT received our first order which was to Methanex in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

August 1994

AFT welcomes the first Channel Partner, Brian McManus with Pisces Engineering Services located in Glasgow, United Kingdom

August 1994

October 1995

AFT Arrow™ 1.0 was released. AFT now had two products and Sales tripled

February 1996

Vice President of Development, Jeff Olsen (also a rocket engineer), joined AFT. He believed in the product so much he moved his wife and their two small children from California to Ohio

February 1996

August 1996

AFT moved to Colorado from Ohio – farewell trusty basement! AFT rented an official office space in Woodland Park, Colorado

November 1996

AFT Impulse™ 1.0 was released to help engineers mitigate waterhammer / surge

November 1996

January 1999

Tom Glassen joined AFT as a business manager who forms the Support, Upgrade, and Maintenance program to better assist engineers

February 2001

AFT Mercury™ automated network sizing software for liquid systems

February 2001

November 2003

AFT Titan™ was released to help engineers identify critical cost-saving opportunities in gas system designs

2004

AFT introduces add-on modules with the release of AFT Fathom™6.0. The first modules were Cost Estimation (CST), Goal Seek & Control (GCS), and Extended Time Simulation (XTS)

2004

2004

The AFT Platinum Pipeline Award program was created to recognize companies and engineers who use AFT software. While most engineering projects our software is used on is highly proprietary, this program allowed AFT to provide small glimpses to consumers of how AFT is used

March 2005

AFT hosts it’s first Channel Partner Summit. They discussed AFT business and went skiing in the Colorado Rockies. The summit is still held bi-annually

March 2005

December 2006

Trey and Jeff form Purple Mountain Tech Group™, a sister-company of AFT, to provide consulting support for hydraulic flow modeling

2007

Hired Software Developer Roger Anderson to combine all of our code into a common structure and migrate it to the “dot net” or “.NET” framework. This finished in September 2012 with the release of AFT Fathom™ 8.

2007

August 2009

AFT Introduces the AFT Settling Slurry Module (SSL) that can be used with AFT Fathom & AFT Impulse. To this day, SSL is still the only piece of commercial software that can model slurries in piping systems

October 2010

AFT moves the headquarters office to Colorado Springs, Colorado USA

October 2010

April 2011

AFT Fathom Student™ is introduced to help Engineering students with homework and to prepare students to enter the workforce

November 2011

AFT partners with Archon Engineering to develop Nuclear Verification and Validation packages for AFT software

November 2011

February 2012

AFT brushed up our own technology with a robust customer relationship management database and marketing automation. This was complete with a company rebrand, a new website and marketing collateral

March 2015

AFT began offering eLicense

March 2015

March 2016

AFT Introduces Professor Pumphead™ who assist the company with training and education

July – November 2016

AFT Launches AFT Fathom™ 10, AFT Arrow™ 7, AFT Impulse™ 7 all with the capability to interface with neutral files, piping component files, EPANET files which allows engineers to jumpstart their models and saves significant man-hours to analyze their systems

July – November 2016

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