Training and consulting offerings

Accelerate your return on investment in Simbus products through training & consulting

Covid-19 Update: Due to widespread and changing travel restrictions and the need to protect you and our staff, travel to your facility may not be possible.  We will take every opportunity to provide our products and services to you online.

Coming Soon: Simbus Product Training

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Coming Soon: Simbus Product Training

We will soon offer Self-Paced Product Training for Simbus Bondgraphs. When your purchase Self-Paced Product Training you will get:

  1. Training slides,

  2. Training notes,

  3. MATLAB code,

  4. Simulink models.

Customers will be expected to have developer licenses (commercial, academic, or student licenses) or trial licenses of Simbus products.

A runtime license is not suitable nor permitted for use with training.

Self-paced product training will be available from our store along with other future training offerings.

COTS Services

COTS Services (Commercial-Of-The-Shelf Services) are provided on a Time and Materials basis and are described using a simple Service Schedule. We will develop this schedule following an initial consultation.

They are ideal for:

  1. Identifying needs and initial technical requirements,
  2. Mentoring teams of up to 4 people on the use of our products,
  3. Developing Statements of Work (SOWs) for Custom Services.

COTS Services are usually of 1-20 days of effort, where a day is defined to be 8 hours. We perform knowledge transfer and we summarise the results in a technical memorandum. This can contain technical results, recommendations, user needs, technical requirements, or SOW for your follow-on projects.

We offer two types of COTS Services:

  1. On-Site COTS Services: We perform these at your site, and
  2. Remote COTS Services: We perform these at Simbus’ site. We may use video, email, and telephone for communication.

A mix of on-site and remote work can be achieved by purchasing day units of both types of COTS Services. Travel, lodging, and subsistence costs are built into the price for On-Site COTS Services and depend on your location and distance from us (we are based in Glasgow, Scotland).

We will invoice you immediately after the completion of each of the ordered COTS Services. COTS Services are performed according to the Simbus Services Agreement.

COTS Services

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Custom Services

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Custom Services

Custom Services are offered on a Fixed Price basis. Custom Services require a mutually-agreed Statement of Work (SOW) based on a pre-defined User Requirements Document.

We will define the User Requirements Document or refine an existing one during one or more COTS Services. Our SOW will detail the mutually-agreed tasks, timeframes, meetings, milestones and deliverables.

The effort of Custom Services is 20-40 days. As a product-focused business, we are limited to 40 days maximum effort at this time.

Custom Services deliverables may include reports, software, and associated documentation, or a combination of them. We perform Custom Services at Simbus premises typically although it may be necessary to have some meetings at your site.

The quoted price of Custom Services is exclusive of travel, lodging, and subsistence costs incurred. We will invoice you immediately after a mutually-agreed payment milestone is reached. Custom Services are performed according to the Simbus Services Agreement.