Global Market
With channel partners around the world and customers in more than 80 countries, AFT software has helped companies in many industries design safer, more efficient systems and solve operational problems.
Our Team
Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, our professional staff consists of engineers with extensive experience in both the design and construction of piping systems and the development of analytical modeling methods.
Our Vision
A sustainable world where fluids are transferred safely, reliably, and efficiently.
Our Mission
Empower engineers to intelligently design fluid transfer systems with innovative tools, education, and service.
Our Values
- Deliver quality
- Value people
- Share knowledge
- Be dependable
- Think globally
- Simplify the complicated
- Innovate
- Learn from the past
- Recognize contributions
- Work hard, have fun
AFT: An International Leader in Pipe Flow Modeling Software
Since 1994, AFT 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 in helping engineers simulate, analyze and build anything from simple to highly complex systems.
Throughout our history, 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 tools he initially developed have continuously increased in ability and have allowed engineers to do more with their designs and stretch their projects beyond what they thought was possible.
AFT has taken technology that once had to be outsourced to experts and created tools that an everyday engineer 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 the projects our software is used for are 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 our 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 engineers design and troubleshoot an array of systems used within the power, aerospace, water/wastewater, chemical, and of course oil & gas industries, just to name a few. Engineers in any industry can use our software for systems ranging from simple models, to highly intense waterhammer/surge or pulsation mitigation.
AFT software tools exist to help engineers in two primary ways:
- Ensure accurate and safe designs to prevent issues and build efficiently.
- Quickly troubleshoot problems 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. Through the 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.
Thank you for your friendships, your partnerships, and cheers to many more years of innovative engineering.
Moments in AFT History
Trey Walters, P.E. had just left his job as a rocket engineer and started a new job as a research engineer in the power industry when he conceived of a graphical pipe flow analysis software for Microsoft Windows 3.1. As a hobby, he began to work on graphics and hydraulic solution algorithms.
February 1992
September 14, 1993
Trey left his full-time job and founded AFT in Louisville, Ohio, USA. He operated out of the basement of his home.
Trey legally formed Applied Flow Technology Corporation in Canton, Ohio, USA.
January 6, 1994
April 12, 1994
AFT Fathom™ 1.0 was released. It was the world’s first graphical pipe flow analysis product for Microsoft Windows.
AFT received our first order which was to Methanex in Alberta, Canada.
May 25, 1994
August 1994
AFT welcomes Channel Partners. PISCES Engineering (UK), SODECO (France), and Representaciones Caesar (Venezuela) were among the first.
AFT Arrow™ 1.0 was released. It was the world’s first graphical compressible pipe flow analysis product for Microsoft Windows. AFT now had two products and sales tripled.
October 1995
February 1996
Vice President of Technology, Jeff Olsen (also a rocket engineer), joined AFT.
AFT moved to Colorado from Ohio – farewell trusty basement! AFT rented an official office space in Woodland Park, Colorado.
August 1996
November 1996
AFT Impulse™ 1.0 was released to help engineers simulate waterhammer / surge. It was the world’s first graphical waterhammer analysis product for Microsoft Windows. AFT had orders for AFT Impulse before it was even released.
AFT Mercury™ was released. It was the world’s first commercial pipe system optimization tool which performed automated sizing of entire pipe networks.
February 2001
May 2003
AFT Titan™ was released. It was the world’s first commercial compressible flow pipe system optimization tool which performed automated sizing of entire pipe networks.
AFT introduces add-on modules with the release of AFT Fathom 6.0. The first modules were Cost Estimation (CST), Goal Seek & Control (GSC), and Extended Time Simulation (XTS). The CST module features have since been incorporated into AFT Fathom as base product features.
2004
March 2005
AFT hosts its first Channel Partner Summit. They discussed AFT business and went skiing in the Colorado Rockies. The summit is still held bi-annually.
Trey and Jeff form Purple Mountain Tech Group™, a sister-company of AFT, to provide consulting support for hydraulic flow modeling.
December 2006
June 2008
Combined all code into a common structure and migrate it to the “.NET” framework. This finished in September 2012 with the release of AFT Fathom™ 8.
AFT released the Settling Slurry Module (SSL) with AFT Fathom 7.
August 2009
October 2010
Combined all code into a common structure and migrate it to the “.NET” framework. This finished in September 2012 with the release of AFT Fathom™ 8.
AFT partners with Archon Engineering to develop Nuclear Verification and Validation packages for AFT software.
November 2011
July 2012
AFT adopts new logo, company branding and website.
Released AFT Fathom 8, our first product on the .NET framework after five years of work.
September 2012
May 2016
AFT released the Settling Slurry (SSL) module for AFT Impulse. This is the first and only waterhammer slurry modeling software product on the market.
AFT releases the Pulsation Frequency Analysis (PFA) module for AFT Impulse. This allows AFT customers for the first time to perform acoustic natural frequency analysis with AFT software.
November 2017
April 2021
AFT xStream is released to analyze gas and steam transients. It was released with its own Pulsation Frequency Analysis module. AFT xStream is the first new product AFT has released in 18 years.
AFT remodels the AFT office to combine the AFT and the Purple Mountain Technology Group offices.
July 2021
December 2021
AFT releases the AFT Arrow XTS module with version 9.
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