The National Aerospace Laboratory NLR wanted to resolve technical and functional limitations of the legacy system, exacerbated by increased demand for functionality and provide an integrated and standardized system for business processes, while minimizing customizations to save management costs and time. The challenge was to improve the availability and accessibility...
Exostar was established in 2000 by five of the world's largest aerospace and defense companies as a central hub for information exchange. As projects began to involve more trading partners, Exostar sought to create a cross-enterprise collaboration solution to meet the highest security levels while also accommodating less stringent cross-enterprise...
...to know that rocket fuel ingredients are not the best chemicals to have in our drinking water, or baby formula. Now, I've sworn off baby formula, but I'm still hitting the water faucet with addictive regularlity. What's up? Actually, what's down, as in the ground...
Kreisler Industrial supplies the aerospace industry with specialized tubing, primarily for jet engines. The company works with exotic alloys and expensive special materials, requiring complete traceability of all parts and supplies. Using a lean manufacturing process to reduce the cost of raw materials, the company faced challenges because accounting and...
Like many OEMs, Trek Aerospace needed an embedded solution with long-term availability and excellent support. VersaLogic's RoHS-compliant Puma platform was selected, as it draws only 5W during operation and less then 800mW in standby mode. With 3 USB ports, 3 COM ports, an LPT port and a 10/100 Ethernet interface,...
Three main trends that are shaping the embedded device market today are smaller form factors, standardization, and improved performance per watt. In addition, applications across all device categories, from signal processing in aerospace devices to multimedia processing in consumer devices, continue to require higher performance. However, the traditional method of...
In 'Nanotube paper flexes on demand,' nanotechweb.org reports that French researchers are using multiwalled carbon nanotubes MWCNTs reinforced with polyvinyl alcohol PVA to develop ultra-lightweight actuators for aerospace applications. The scientists have developed a paper-like sheet which bends when the material is electrically stimulated. As said one of the lead...
Honeywell Aerospace, a division of Honeywell International, manufactures and provides integrated avionics, engines, systems, and services to the global aerospace industry. In an effort to further strengthen security and ease maintenance and support, the company is deploying a standardized set of applications to each employee's computer. To take advantage of...
L-3 Vertex Aerospace has more than 11,000 staff at 300 locations around the world to service 3,500 aircraft, including 89 distinct types, primarily for the U.S. government. Bidding on new contracts requires drawing on millions of rows of accounting and inventory data, which had been stored on an IBM 3090...
Finmeccanica is the first Italian company operating on a global scale in the aerospace, defense and security industry. In addition to being the European leader in satellite and space services, it is also one of the world's foremost suppliers of helicopters and defense electronics. The challenge was technology that needed...
LFC has a sister company that generates invoices for both companies. Information was being driven back and forth between the companies, and this was not a long-term solution. In addition, the company's shop order and inventory systems were based on an MS-DOS platform and were not scalable. Finally, the company's...
You all know that most species of animals can fly -- but not humans. There are more than a million species of flying insects, but do you know that among the 13,000 warm-blood vertebrate species which include birds and mammals, about 10,000 of them are able to fly (9,000 birds...
Named after Orville and Wilbur Wright, the inventors of powered flight, Wright State University continues their tradition of innovation. A rich and dynamic community of nearly 17,000 students, Wright State offers more than 100 undergraduate degrees and nearly 50 Ph.D., master's and professional degrees, and its School of Medicine is...
Aerospace Dynamics International ADI manufactures large components such as aircraft wing spars and bulkheads and panels for the space shuttle's external fuel tanks. Aerospace Dynamics International no longer has time to code intricate machine motion by hand, yet it still needs the control that hand-programming provides. The installation of seven...
Washington-based Andrews Space is an affordable integrator of aerospace systems and a developer of advanced space technologies. Andrews Space needed a new parallel-processing computing environment with the high-performance that complex contracts demand, and the cost-effectiveness to meet its budget requirements. After researching processors and interconnect technology, Andrews Space elected to...
Researchers at Princeton University are currently working on two projects to reduce jet travel's role in global warming. The first one, a major project funded by the U.S. Air Force with $7.5 million, is focused on developing computational models that accurately simulate the burning of jet fuel, a complex process...
Founded in 1995, Dynamic Concepts Inc. DCI has forged a reputation for simulation expertise in the aerospace and defense communities. Dynamic Concepts wanted to assist customers with solutions to technically complex problems and provide fast, accurate analysis and simulation. The challenge was to support innovation in space exploration. The company...
From NextFest in Los Angeles: CNET's Molly Wood takes a look at how Google has teamed up with the X Prize Foundation, offering $30 million to the first private outfit to send a rover to the moon.
