02/08/2021 | written by Roel Van De Velde Aerospace emerging sectors: eVTOL design for success with MDO The market for Urban Air Mobility and Regional Air Mobility (UAM/RAM) is red hot. Globally, hundreds of fledgling startups are trying to impress potential investors with fancy renderings and promises of certification and commercial operations within a few years. Only time will tell if this is a realistic timeframe, and if all of them will succeed.
13/07/2020 | written by Danilo di Stefano Python for engineers: The benefits of executing codes in an automated workflow for design optimization Nowadays, deep expertise in scripting languages and programming became a valuable skill set for engineers and R&D professionals in general to perform process automation, data analysis, and visualization.
18/06/2020 | written by Carlos Kavka BPMN and DMN: The importance of adopting the right standards in business process modeling Those of you with a certain age can remember the competition during the ‘80s between two different standards for videocassettes, the VHS and the Betamax format. The younger ones may remember just the VHS, clearly indicating the winner.
09/03/2020 | written by Mariapia Marchi Quality engineering based on the Taguchi robust optimization framework Defects, failures and, more in general, the poor quality of a product result in losses in users’ experience and consequent economical losses in the market. Quality engineering, a seminal robust optimization framework elaborated by the Japanese statistician and engineer Dr. Genichi Taguchi aims to tackle these shortcomings by predicting and preventing them.
20/02/2020 | written by Roel Van De Velde Server-based MDO: the preferred architecture of the future Let’s take a closer look as to why one of the most significant outcomes of the AFRL EXPEDITE program is that “server-based MDAO, modeling lifecycle management, and automated distribution is the preferred architecture”.
