We describe a recently approved IEEE standard for exchanging diagnostic information and embedding diagnostic reasoners in any test environment. We describe the defined formats and services, an example application, and current industry acceptance. Leslie A. Orlidge hiedSignal Aerospace Guidance and Control Systems Teterboro, NJ 07608 [email protected] We also discuss several softwa...

GKN Aerospace Engineering Services is a global tier-one supplier of engineering services. In order to remain competitive, GKNAES is faced with the challenge of providing services that meet the time, cost and quality expectations of the large European and North American aerospace OEM companies. Meeting these expectations is becoming increasingly difficult because the aerospace OEM companies are ...

The transition from product development towards development of product-service systems (PSS) challenges manufacturing industry today. This paper is based on a case study of a company in the aerospace industry that turned their internal product knowledge into an external service offer, which challenged established structures of the product development process. The process and challenges of the c...

This article describes recent developments and prototype software that will extend the range of the three-dimensional (3D) modeler CATIA. CATIA started out as an aerospace industry product but recently has made major inroads in the car industry. New software plans include providing object-oriented databases; using free-form 3D sketchers; providing the ability to manipulate constraints, engineer...

Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are catalyzing the Industry 4.0 euphoria in a significant way. One prime beneficiary of ENMs is transportation industry (automotive, aerospace, rail car), where nanostructured multi-materials have ushered path toward high-strength, ultra-impact-resistant, lightweight, and functionally graded engineered surfaces/components creation. The present paper aims to extra...

Superplasticforming (SPF) has become an important manufacturing method for aerospace and fuselage components. The basic reasons for the popularity of this process are reviewed and the compatibilityoffine-grained INCONELB alloy71 8SPF@ to superplasticforming are presented in this paper. The temperature limitations of current aluminum and titanium alloys employed in SPF parts for gas turbine comp...

Y. Jin and R. Curran and J. Butterfield School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, UK BT9 5AH Aerospace Management & Operations, Delft University of Technology,2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands and R. Burke and B. Welch Bombardier Aerospace Belfast, Airport Road, Belfast, UK BT3 9DZ The implementation of effective time analysis methods fast and accurately in the era ...

Aerospace industry is particularly interesting for its complexity due to the high technological products and to a deep and wide net of actors located on a worldwide scale that collaborate to realize the final product. Furthermore, aerospace products require specific and adequate engineering competencies. The use of competencies management system shareable by a whole network of companies can imp...

Abstract A central challenge in current cluster policy discussions is how to build innovative clusters that are resilient external shocks. We examine the Montréal aerospace industry explore resilience. The case interesting since it recently experienced two industrial shocks: Boeing 737 MAX crashes 2018 and 2019 Bombardier’s sell-off of its flagship CSeries 2020. Surprisingly, wake radical disru...

Active infrared thermography is a fast and accurate non-destructive evaluation technique that is of particular relevance to the aerospace industry for the inspection of aircraft and helicopters' primary and secondary structures, aero-engine parts, spacecraft components and its subsystems. This review provides an exhaustive summary of most recent active thermographic methods used for aerospace a...