The digital enterprise: go from digital thread to the shop floor

Stop making software. Start building planes.

The value of leveraging a digital enterprise, a company that has fully implemented digital tools and technology, is more prominent than ever. F…

The Paris Air Show – aerospace innovations and first impressions

The Aerospace and Defense Industry is catapulting into unchartered and innovative spheres.

With the surge of aerospace companies participating in modern advancements like electric aircraft…

Why the aerospace industry must adopt condition-based maintenance

By: Dave Chan and John Cunneen 

When the aerospace industry adopts condition-based maintenance and predictive maintenance methods, the cost of owning and operating aircraft is minimiz…

Space travel, the new frontier in tourism

If you are looking to escape to an exotic locale unencumbered by tourists, there’s a wide-open destination waiting for you: space.
After all, so far only a handful of people have been able to cas…

Private space enterprise will fuel the future of flight

Need a lift? If you’re going to space, you do.
Space begins at about 62 miles above sea level in the fourth layer of the Earth’s atmosphere called the thermosphere. This is where the Internationa…

What’s the future for real flying cars?

Increasing urbanization means technologists and thought leaders are looking to the skies for faster, more efficient movement of people and objects.
The race to create new breeds of flying vehicle…

New drones for business signal the future of flight

Drones, or unmanned flying vehicles, have been around longer than most people think. The Kettering “Bug,” for instance, was developed during World War I. It was a bomb-carrying unpiloted biplane that…

The future of flight and changing supplier relationships

Business dynamics will change in aerospace supply chains as manufacturers incorporate new technological advances shaping the future of flight.

Advances in materials, propulsion, human mach…

How the future of flight changes product lifecycle management

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong’s televised moonwalk transfixed the world. People couldn’t believe what they were seeing. A spacecraft had safely transported two astronauts 360,000 kilometers (223,6…