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The application of computer software has crossed into many different fields, with software being an essential part of industrial, commercial and military systems. Because of its many applications in safety-critical systems, software reliability is now an important research area. Although software engineering is becoming the fastest developing technology of the …
Read More »DFM/DFA/DFx optimize product development and Manufacturing
The last few decades have brought several new challenges for manufacturing companies. Technology and improvements in transportation of goods has enabled companies to source parts globally. This has also resulted in more manufacturers having entered the market place. Competition for business is fierce. Manufacturing companies in the developing world …
Read More »Integrated Master Plan(IMP) and Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
Project management teams (PMTs) face many risks as well as opportunities when executing multi-faceted projects. A PMT will find more risk than opportunity unless it is using an Integrated Master Plan as a road map to drive goals and objectives. This highly detailed plan needs to include the critical path, …
Read More »Configuration Management Requirements, Standards and tools
Configuration Management is the process of maintaining systems, such as computer hardware and software, in the desired state. Configuration Management (CM) is also a method of ensuring that systems perform in a manner consistent with expectations over time. Originally developed in the US military and now widely used in …
Read More »Silicon Lifecycle Management (SLM)
Product Lifecycle Management offerings have helped companies manage their product lifecycles for decades, reducing costs, improving quality, and making customers happy. Silicon Lifecycle Management (SLM) is applying such processes in the semiconductor industry for the manufacture of silicon chips. Semiconductor development is currently in one of its periodic crises, …
Read More »Sales and operations planning (S&OP) to Integrated Sales, Inventory, Operations and Planning (SIOP) process
Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is an integrated planning process that aligns demand, supply, and financial planning and is managed as part of a company’s master planning. S&OP is designed and executed to support executive decision-making related to approving a feasible and profitable material and financial plan. The sales …
Read More »PCB Design consideration for aerospace and military applications
Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are the foundational building block of most modern electronic devices on which all of the other electronic components are assembled onto. A circuit card is a thin, flat piece of dielectric material that has conductive paths or traces etched on it. These conductive circuits – usually …
Read More »3D printing Scramjet engines
3D printing or additive manufacturing is ongoing revolution in manufacturing with its potential to fabricate any complex object and is being utilized from aerospace components to human organs, textiles, metals, buildings and even food. Additive manufacturing is defined by ASTM International as the process of joining materials together, layer by …
Read More »DARPA’s T-MUSIC developing revolutionary THz Mixed mode Integrated circuits and System on Chips(SOC) for Military Terahertz radar and Communications
Integrated circuits (ICs) are generally classified as digital (e.g. a microprocessor) or analog (e.g. an operational amplifier). Mixed-signal ICs are chips that contain both digital and analog circuits on a single semiconductor die. Mixed-signal ICs also process both analog and digital signals together. For example, an analog-to-digital converter is a …
Read More »Lean Six Sigma in Aerospace and Defense Industry ensures the highest level of cost-wise readiness consistency across the unit, quality, and production environments
Digital transformation has become the hottest buzzword of this decade. New technologies and tools are supporting the transformation journey of companies big and small as they compete to get a bigger slice of business in a fast-paced competitive environment. Although digital transformation fast-tracks a company’s growth, it has to be equally …
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