Vertigo, Inc. owners Glen Brown and Roy Haggard have transformed their small engineering company into a burgeoning manufacturing business with the help of Inland Empire SCORE Counselor Nary Kanoor. Glen's concept was to license their GPS guidance-and-control technology to a company that would build, market and sell the world's first...
"Technical communicators can use their professional skills to help industry improve managerial-employee communication, an area that directly affects productivity. This case study investigates upward and downward communication at an aerospace company. Beginning with a survey that indicated a number of statistically significant differences between the attitudes of managers and other...
There are plenty of success stories about change management in purchasing, especially when it comes to implementing 'planned' category management approaches in purchasing. However, one rarely gets to read about the 'inside view'. The aim of this paper is to present a clear and candid view of large-scale internal change...
Simulation software has reached a technological level that provides high flexibility and integration capabilities necessary for product design, development and manufacturing efficiency. Within the manufacturing industry, this simulation potential has not been fully recognized, although it is now becoming a matter of interest through the documented benefits it has provided....
Sikorsky Aircraft faced a difficult task at the outset of its S-92 helicopter program: deploy a cutting-edge, 3D design system over a global WAN that would seamlessly integrate the design and manufacturing efforts of six companies scattered across four continents. Aircraft design and construction has come a long way since...
FARNBOROUGH (Reuters) - The head of jetmaker Airbus criticized a French probe into suspected insider trading at parent EADS, branding it a "show trial." Tom Enders is one of 17 current or former executives at the European group cited for further investigation by...
FARNBOROUGH (Reuters UK) - The head of jetmaker Airbus criticized a French probe into suspected insider trading at parent EADS, branding it a "show trial". Tom Enders is one of 17 current or former executives at the European group cited for further investigation by France's ...
