Aerospace & Defense

Public and private sector organizations around the world are increasingly taking advantage of the scalable power of cloud computing. Solutions…

There are several benefits to be gained from the introduction of a complete end-to-end HUMS/EAM support solution. Over the last…

Anyone in the United States military command or in the executive ranks of the aerospace industry knows auditability has been…

The Wall Street Journal has shown that there is very little room for profit in the aviation industry. In fact,…

Compliance with Defense Contractor Audit Agency (DCAA) requirements is a top priority for any company doing business with the US…

Performance-based logistics (PBL) was designed as a cost-saving measure for weapons system support efforts. And reduce weapons system cost is…

BRICS nations have an opportunity to assert themselves on the global stage and are looking to invest in their armed…

In 2012 worldwide defence spending fell for the first time in a decade. The largest falls were in NATO nations – and there’s not much chance of that changing. Forces need to maintain their capability in that context. New equipment isn’t coming on stream, and thus older equipment is being use for longer – by necessity and design. What can technology do to help in this situation?

Babcock International is busy standardising its systems so that it can assimilate acquired companies more easily – and IFS is at the very core of their Marine One system.

The top-performing maintenance, repair and overhaul companies have defined an enterprise platform to overcome the barrier to organizational change by…

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is viewed as one of the key methods allowing maintenance engineers to do more with less at the same time as minimizing risk. RCM provides a greater understanding of the level of risk that an organization is currently managing, as well as supporting the establishment of capital maintenance regimes, thereby increasing cost effectiveness and equipment uptime. Implementing an RCM solution is not necessarily a complex or procedure – particularly if an organization follows seven easy steps…

…and those that do, use manual spreadsheets! Governments of the world have been working towards an improved level of sustainability…