The flying public may not be so interested in it—yet—but pilotless commercial airplanes could be a boon to the aerospace industry and some financial analysts see a natural evolution in that direction coming. Renaissance Services helps companies mature and integrate…
Last week’s International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) drew more than 111,000 registrants from 112 countries to see 15,000 new machine tools, controls, computers, software, and components of virtually all kinds. This year, the Chicago-based show, as it has for more…
It’s one small part for an aircraft engine, one giant leap for 3D printing. The Navy has announced a Marine MV-22 made the sea services’ first successful flight with a “flight critical” component built by additive manufacturing. Renaissance Services is at the forfront of…
Military planners are beginning to imagine how additive manufacturing (AM) can enhance operations. The potential gains that AM—also known as 3-D printing—offers are transformative and require new ways of thinking from suppliers and end-users to achieve them. Renaissance Services is…
U.S. Special Operations experts needed special terrain-following radar to enable military aircraft to infiltrate enemy territory by hiding in mountain passes, valleys, and in bad weather. They found their solution from Raytheon Co. Renaissance Services helps companies improve their product…
Chronic maintenance problems with the aging F-18 Hornet are hobbling the Marines, leaving them with less than 60 percent of the strike fighters they need to conduct training and operations, the deputy commandant for aviation told the Senate… Renaissance Services helps DoD and…
There is an interesting white paper about smart manufacturing and digital work instructions at the DISCUS Software Company web site. This paper provides 7 insights into what’s necessary to bring electronic work instructions to the marketplace. It provides a nice…
Three years ago, Lockheed Martin made the bold boast that F-35s would cost less than $85 million a copy by 2019, less than any existing fourth-generation fighter…Now, Program Executive Officer Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan says the most common model of the plane, the…
In today’s unforgiving product development environments, even the smallest design or engineering mistakes can produce large, costly, and embarrassing consequences. While this threat can be reduced by applying good risk analysis techniques, many companies often perform their assessments too late…
To make upgrades easier, cheaper, and, most importantly, faster — so we can stay ahead of rapidly advancing adversaries like Russia and China — the Defense Department has embraced an approach called “open architecture.” Open architectures aren’t exactly new, but the military’s…