Integrated Vehicle Health Monitoring (IVHM) is among the few technologies that help in reducing maintenance and operational costs, while improving the overall safety of an aircraft. This paper presents...
a solution approach to IVHM of the landing gear system for a typical transport aircraft. It demonstrates the application through a typical use case of the landing gear retraction mechanism.
This paper illustrates the various challenges faced during different stages of a product’s functional testing life cycle, viz., test requirements gathering...
and management, test planning, test strategizing, test execution, and test results reporting. Also discussed are the best practices that were institutionalized to cope with the challenges, thereby resulting in an effective and efficient testing process, along with a highly satisfied customer.
There is a constant need for software evolution techniques that are practical, efficient and cost-effective. As the application code becomes older, maintaining it becomes a challenge. Refactoring is a technique to keep...
the code cleaner, simpler, extendable, reusable and maintainable. This view point talks about the concept of refactoring as one aspect of code improvement and how it can be used to enhance its architecture and modularity.
A lot is changing in the software industry, thanks to the advancements in technology. These changes necessitate the need for software applications to be in sync with the latest technologies...
and trends to remain competent in the market. Software re-engineering is the need of the hour, and proper testing is very important to this re-engineering process. This white paper provides vital insights on the software re-engineering process and corresponding testing considerations.
Test metrics serve as important indicators of the efficiency and effectiveness of the software testing process. Hence, analyzing defined test metrics will help organizations identify areas for improvement...
and devise follow-up actions. This white paper presents a comprehensive model for measuring test metrics that organizations can adopt in order to infuse a culture of continuous improvement into their overall software testing lifecycle.
Cloud service providers need a holistic view of the virtualized environment as well as individual applications hosted on the Cloud to plan infrastructure and ensure...
prompt service. In this view point, Infosys' expert discusses the components and metrics of a performance monitoring solution across virtualization platforms. Also, our expert proposes a high level view of model as a guideline for developing a Cloud Monitoring Solution for service providers.
The aircraft industry continuously reinvents itself to reduce acquisition, operational and maintenance costs while meeting stringent performance requirements. The challenge is to design light weight aircrafts with reduced maintenance costs. It is essential to...
maintain readiness levels of the aging fleet to maintain profitability.
This paper discusses the new realm of predictive maintenance known as in-situ structural health monitoring. Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) helps in realizing slender and light weight structures leading to reduced fuel costs, long term cost savings in maintenance and extended fleet life.
SaaS is a business delivery model where software applications are accessible over the Net and offered as subscription on demand. Though the 'pay per use' model offers flexible subscription timelines to end customers, it has ...
not been adopted as expected. The major concern for the reluctance is the challenge of security. This paper elucidates the security challenges and how contemporary security testing can ensure that the challenges are met. The paper also discusses the major security standards as laid down by CSA and DMTF that should be followed by SaaS vendors.
The white paper introduces Cloud Computing business model. “On Demand” paradigm has been explained novice examples. Cloud computing as a business model has been discussed for its various benefits and limitations. The view...
point described in this document differentiates between terms Cloud Testing and Testing a Cloud as applicable in day to day business offerings. Testing a Cloud demonstrates how contemporary verification strategies can help overcome the associated limitations. Cloud Testing section exemplify Testing on demand and why is it termed as future of testing services.
Leveraging Federation standards can accelerate Cloud-Computing adoption by resolving vendor lock in issues and facilitate “On Demand” business requirements. This paper elucidates the importance of Federation in Cloud...
deployment. In today's competent business scenario, enterprises would need to support various Federation protocols to be able to provide seamless connectivity across applications and across various forms of deployments. From an enterprise perspective, Federation between Clouds provides flexibility to avoid vendor lock-in scenario. From the Cloud vendor's perspective, it helps maintain the quality of service parameters committed to enterprises. For an end user, Federation provides the capability for seamless access across various applications.
Know more about how Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE), a proven product development technology, through capture and reuse of engineering knowledge, can help the Retail and CPG industries.
The critical nature of spare parts management in manufacturing and service operations cannot be understated. Factors such as demand unpredictability, part alternates, parts indigenization and tight control on spare parts...
inventory coupled with high service levels, demand decision support to accurately forecast spare part requirements and to optimize inventory. Meeting these objectives helps improve profitability and achieve strategic goals such as customer loyalty. Our expert discusses various facets of spares and service management from a Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) perspective. It also examines the industry from an automation perspective and suggests viable solutions.
For large aluminum manufacturers with multiple furnaces and pot-lines, delivering ladles carrying the right quality of metal to the desired furnace and recording all in-process data for future analysis is a major challenge....
Our expert suggests an approach to capture, display, store and analyze ladle-related information. It is designed to enable better execution of smelting and cast-house schedules and increase visibility of ladle movements, thereby improving coordination between smelting and cast-house operations.
For any MES/ enterprise integration effort to be manageable and effective, it must adopt a top-down perspective and use processes as the organizational foundation for a staged implementation of integration.
The Digital Manufacturing Enterprise envisages an integrated information model, one that spans across the entire enterprise regardless of size, geography or complexity...
. This would integrate multiple tiers of applications such as plant automation systems, manufacturing execution systems and enterprise applications in order to drive planning and execution closely together.
Cost is not the only factor for the success or failure of a product. High quality products ensure a long-term relationship between the supplier and the customer, ensuring business benefits for both parties....
Today, management of product quality has become an integral part of the product development lifecycle. Every product organization is building effective processes that are well supported by systems to enforce stringent quality management of their products.
Our experts explain one such system that provides an integrated and comprehensive approach to product quality management using a workflow-based model.
A PQMS (Product Quality Management System) provides improved product quality by tightly integrating into a unified environment, the key components of the Product Management cycle:
- Quality assurance
- Release management
- Customer quality management
- Resource management
PQMS is developed on the concept of integrating processes seamlessly into the engineering workflow through a robust workflow engine that can be easily configured to incorporate a company's process. PQMS achieves process efficiency and better predictability through continuous closed loop corrective actions and can be a powerful tool to improve and manage a product's quality.
Convergence in communications, media and the Internet is pitting the giants of industry against one another. Examine the convergence of video distribution and assess how the "Triple Play" (offering of video, voice and high speed data)...
and "Quad Play" bundles (Triple Play plus mobile) may evolve.
The widespread popularity of IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) is a clear indication that independent networks will be integrated into a single IP-based infrastructure, the Next-Generation Network (NGN), in the near future.
Service interaction between games and other mobile devices is a key challenge in future mobile gaming. This paper analyzes the disparity in current user equipment-based implementations and discusses how IMS architecture can address interaction issues at the network level.
IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) help track presence across sources and technologies and aggregates presence information at the network rather than at presence agents. Since IMS is access-agnostic, it makes communication user-centric by enabling a unified identity...
across multiple devices and media types.
Global sourcing has become a change agent in high-technology manufacturing causing dramatic shifts in how and where product components and capabilities are sourced and where work gets done.
Global sourcing has become a change agent in high-technology manufacturing causing dramatic shifts in how and where product components and capabilities are sourced and where work gets done.
The manufacturing industry must comply with Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemical (REACH) regulation in the European Union. According to our experts, a holistic view of REACH requirements reveals that an integrated PLM backbone can achieve REACH compliance through...
its functionalities. They demonstrate how the Infosys PLM solution can be leveraged to achieve REACH compliance and eventually help organizations to reduce time-to-market and deliver process improvements during product creation.
Our experts highlight some key problems that the Aerospace industry faces in managing part information. It proposes a solution framework to address those problems....
The paper also suggests how the proposed solution can be enabled through technologies like Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).
Adopting the right sourcing model – captive center vs. vendor partner – can reduce the Total Cost of Ownership and provide long-term flexibility for engineering product development.