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Eurocopter Improves Product Development Operations With Web-Based Visualization Solution

whitepaper Digital product development enables Eurocopter to shorten development cycles for its helicopters, but it requires powerful tools to make the digital data accessible to non-CAD departments. Global distribution of development and production, and the...

Tags: data visualization

[08 Feb 2008]

Gamesa Needed an Effective System to Manage Its Electronic Mockup Process

whitepaper Gamesa, a Spanish industrial group, provides assemblies such as fuselages, empennages, wings, nacelles, main landing gear doors and interiors for commuter aircraft and helicopters. During the development cycle each prototype has important differences.

Tags: groupware - workflow

[14 Jan 2008]

Polish Medical Air Rescue Uses Cisco Technology to Improve Services

whitepaper The Polish Medical Air Rescue, which operates 22 planes and helicopters in 16 sites across the country, provides emergency transport of severely ill or injured patients who require immediate specialized medical assistance, as well as transporting...

Tags: local area networks (lan)

[16 Nov 2007]

Advanced Mobile Digital Video Systems

whitepaper One such application is the use of the DVB-T open standard technologies, originally developed for Terrestrial broadcasting, is to provide robust and reliable digital video links from mobile vehicles, helicopters, mobile command centers and hand...

Tags: wireless lan, video, links, dvb

[01 Aug 2007]

Test your CIO knowledge - and win an iPod

News Which three CIOs on the CIO50 list are also pilots (planes or helicopters)? They're leaders, influencers, innovators and strategists. They're at the top of the IT tree. And for the first time, silicon.com names them - the UK's top 50 CIOs.

Tags: cio50

[14 Jun 2007]

Photos: Top Gun goes virtual

Photo The system can also be linked to training simulators for Apache helicopters and other US Air Force aircraft - such as F-16s and A10s - at its research labs in Mesa, Arizona. Virtual worlds are all the rage at the moment for businesses and consumers...

Tags: training, military, raf, mod

[08 Jun 2007]

Exclusive: UK's top CIO revealed

News The profiles also unearth some unusual pastimes the top CIOs get up to away from the pressures of the office - ranging from ocean swimming and restoring oil paintings to judging motor racing and flying helicopters.

Tags: paul coby, cio50

[07 Jun 2007]

Helicopter Company Expects Revenue to Rise With Cost-Effective Mobile Communications

whitepaper Lloyd Helicopters buys, sells, leases, and brokers helicopters worldwide. Then, in 2006, Lloyd Helicopters deployed Dopod838Pro PDA phones powered by Windows Mobile 5.0 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 with Direct Push Technology.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, messages, employees, phones

[16 Apr 2007]

£2.4bn battlefield radios slammed by MPs

News The whole programme involves replacing the ageing analogue Clansman radios, used by the armed forces since the 1970s, with a secure digital communications system linked with the CIP computer-based battlefield management system across 15,700 land...

Tags: bowman, mod

[07 Mar 2007]

How Does One Browse a Library With No Books?

whitepaper One of them said people would be flying around in personal helicopters by now, and living in machines. People will have read some of those 'Looking into the future' predictions that sound so silly a few years later.

Tags: publishing, pcs, machines, books

[14 Nov 2006]

InfiNet Wireless Case Study: Mobile Wireless Multimedia Network DiViSy MN21

whitepaper This network has terminals implemented both in portable modification and for placement on various transports (automobiles, trains, ships, helicopters, etc. Professionals of the DiViSy group of companies have completed the development and testing of...

Tags: ethernet, handling, mobile wireless, implemented

[14 Nov 2006]

UK supercomputer gets upgrade

News For example, researchers at the University of Bristol modelled the aerodynamics of helicopter rotor blades using the machine, creating rotor wake simulations essential for both the design of civil and military helicopters.

Tags: supercomputer

[08 Nov 2006]

Adobe Systems Case Study: Bell Helicopter Textron

whitepaper Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.is a $1.4 billion leading producer of commercial and military helicopters. The U.S. Marine Corps, which needs 360 V-22 Ospreys (V-22 Osprey is a tiltrotor aircraft) for combat assault and assault support, required the...

Tags: courseware, develop, training, interactive

[14 Jun 2006]

U.S. Army Project Office Relies on Novell Solutions for a High Level of Security and Protection Against Viruses and Hackers

whitepaper The Utility Helicopters Project Management Office (UH PMO) procures and sustains helicopters for the United States Army. UH PMO began looking for a reliable e-mail solution that would provide secure remote access, as well as protection against...

Tags: pmo, helicopters, united states army, hackers

[26 Apr 2006]

Vibro-Meter Increases Performance and Reduces Costs With HP Servers and Storage

whitepaper Based in Fribourg, Switzerland, Vibro-Meter SA is world leader in the design and manufacture of vibration monitoring systems for the propulsion units and machinery used in commercial aircraft, helicopters, military aerospace, industrial and marine...

Tags: disaster recovery, disaster, sap, recovery

[02 Mar 2006]

Gates wows Vegas with Vista keynote

News The demo included helicopters and flying birds, among other realistic details. After months of touting Vista's geekier side, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday highlighted features designed to convince the average consumer they need the...

Tags: ces, las vegas, linux, personal technology

[05 Jan 2006]

Chinese hackers breach US military defences

News Alan Paller, director of the SANS Institute, said: "From the Redstone Arsenal, home to the Army Aviation and Missile Command, the attackers grabbed specs for the aviation mission-planning system for Army helicopters, as well as Falconview 3.2, the...

Tags: titan rain, hackers

[24 Nov 2005]

The Use of Modern Technologies (GPS, GIS and Geodata) for Controlling Olive Tree Pests

whitepaper In the past, the fight against olive tree diseases in Greece was carried out by spraying the olive groves from the air by using light-weight airplanes, helicopters etc. As this way of dealing with the problem had a negative, long-lasting ecological...

Tags: olive, efficiency, carried, pilot

[09 Nov 2005]

Beyond Swarm Intelligence: The UltraSwarm

whitepaper Initial work on constructing such a system based around miniature electric helicopters is described. This paper explores the idea that it may be possible to combine two ideas - UAV flocking, and wireless cluster computing - in a single system, the...

Tags: cluster, explores, identified, electric

[06 Oct 2005]

HP FAS Streamlines Quality Control for World's Top Helicopter Firm

whitepaper Eurocopter is the world's leading manufacturer of civil and military helicopters used for VIP and passenger transport, rescue and police missions, offshore operations and special military needs. Quality control is vitally important on the assembly...

Tags: data quality, manufacturer, military, inspectors

[29 Jun 2005]

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