The National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) is the main knowledge enterprise for aerospace technology in the Netherlands. NLR carries out commissions for government and corporations, both nationally and internationally, and for civil and military aviation. The overarching objective is to render aviation safer and more sustainable and efficient. In this way, NLR has been making essential contributio...

Lean practices and principles build on a half-century of successive initiatives aimed at transforming social and technical systems in organizations. While they are seen as central to the revitalization of the U.S. aerospace industry, there is great variation in the degree to which lean initiatives emphasize just technical/manufacturing systems versus additional social and enterprise dimensions....

The increasing need for Maintenance Repair Overhaul organisations (MROs) to meet customers’ demands in quality and reduced lead times is key to its survival within the Aviation industry. Furthermore, with the unpredictability in the global market and difficulties with forecasting characteristic of the MRO industry there is an increased need for the re-evaluation of the operation models of organ...

Aerospace industry has been involved in virtual simulation for design and testing since the birth of virtual reality. Today this industry is showing a growing interest in the development of haptic-based maintenance training applications, which represent the most advanced way to simulate maintenance and repair tasks within a virtual environment by means of a visual-haptic approach. The goal is t...

Lean practices and principles build on a half-century of successive initiatives aimed at transforming social and technical systems in organizations. While they are seen as central to the revitalization of the U.S. aerospace industry, there is great variation in the degree to which lean initiatives emphasize just technical/manufacturing systems versus additional social and enterprise dimensions....

he Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1990 are inT tended to reduce emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by 70 to 90%. They specifically designate 189 compounds as hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). The EPA estimates that the aerospace industry generates 208,000 tons per year of HAPs plus an additional 145,000 tons per year of VOCs. Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standards ...