Australia has embarked on an extraordinary reform to design, develop and implement a new and contemporary Defence Aviation Safety Framework. The program seeks to establish a single Defence Aviation Safety Authority (DASA) and issue a comprehensive and integrated suite of Defence Aviation Safety Regulation (DASR) for initial and continuing airworthiness, flight operations, air navigation, aerodromes (inclusive of ship-borne heliports) and safety management systems. While reforms of this scale can often be triggered by reviews into major aircraft accidents, such as The Nimrod Review by Charles Haddon-Cave QC in October 2009, Australia initiated the reform when new aircraft fleets were being introduced and at a time of arguably high-levels of aviation safety. The purpose of this paper is therefore to explain the compelling reason for change; providing a twenty-five-year retrospective analysis of Australia’s previous Defence aviation safety framework to give a rich picture of the

Hood, James, Marzocca, Pier, Sinha, Arvind

SAE project to develop cyber-secure EV charging

20AUTP10_1110/1/2020

Electric-vehicle charging is critical to the mainstreaming of EVs. A 2019 study by the International Council on Clean Transportation estimates that to create, by 2025, a charging network for the 100 U.S. metro areas with the highest populations will require 82,000 more EV charging stations at workplaces, 103,000 public stations with Level 2 (240-V) chargers and 10,000 direct current fast charging stations. That network must be cyber-secure, scalable and trusted by industry and the public. For this reason, SAE International and industry partners recently launched a collaborative project to strengthen EV charging system security. The SAE EV Charging Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) project will design and test, over the next 18-24 months, an inclusive, global EV charging PKI platform aimed at ensuring the interface points between EV drivers and EV charging infrastructure is secure and trusted. PKI is a best practice used across industries to ensure a high level of trust between entities

Brooke, Lindsay

Developing Products Amid COVID-19: Innovating Production Systems for Surgical Mechanical Cable Making

TBMG-372337/1/2020

Did you know that to be able to say, “not this again,” in response to the current global health emergency, you would have to be no younger than 102 years old? It’s true. The last time the world saw such a crippling public health crisis, the year was 1918, when the flu pandemic sickened one-third of the world’s population. But, in the throes of a calamity unseen in over a century, which has now even shut down the world’s economy, one would think manufacturing would simply stop as well. And certainly, with unemployment figures estimated to be as high as 20 percent in the United States, the highest ever since the Great Depression, it isn’t difficult to imagine a slowdown in the making of virtually anything built by America’s proud stable of manufacturers.1

SUPPLIER EYE

20AUTP04_074/1/2020

Just when it seems that the industry isn't facing enough challenges, COVID-19 swoops in out of the blue. No extraneous shock that's hit the automotive sector in the past decade-including a tsunami, floods, tornados, critical-supplier facility fires and multi-week labor stoppages-compares with this global health crisis. To an extent, the previous events have had a defined impact with a light at the tunnel's end. COVID-19's full impact is much less certain. Both short- and long-term ramifications are likely to result from COVID-19. Beyond the obvious threat to life, the industry must grapple with new supply-and-demand challenges. While disruptions first became obvious through China's Wuhan area, the interconnected automotive supply chain immediately rose to the surface. Subsequent issues in other parts of China, South Korea, Italy and other countries have and will certainly stress the global ecosystem. I doubt that all issues will be behind us soon, though I'm hopeful that the virus's

Collaboration: A Powerful, Effective Strategy for Medtech Companies Moving to Embrace Industry 4.0 and Drive Digital Transformation

TBMG-362763/1/2020

The digital revolution under way in medtech manufacturing will continue to transform the industry into a more connected, efficient, and agile ecosystem. However, the challenge for many companies is to plot the best way to embrace various existing and new technologies and move toward smarter manufacturing — their version of the “factory of the future.” Every company is at a different stage of digital transformation. Some companies are wholeheartedly piloting, integrating, and scaling disruptive technologies within their operations in a bid to realize greater supply chain and internal operational benefits. Others are at a different place in their digital journey, identifying incremental opportunity areas where they can demonstrate initial impact and justify further investment.

Unsettled Topics Concerning Automated Driving Systems and the Transportation Ecosystem

EPR2019005

11/5/2019

Over the last 100 years, the automobile has become integrated in a fundamental way into the broader economy. A broad and deep ecosystem has emerged, and critical components of this ecosystem include insurance, after-market services, automobile retail sales, automobile lending, energy suppliers (e.g., gas stations), medical services, advertising, lawyers, banking, public planners, and law enforcement. These components - which together represent almost $2 trillion of the U.S. economy - are in equilibrium based on the current capabilities of automotive technology. However, the advent of autonomous vehicles (AVs) and technologies like electrification have the potential to significantly disrupt the automotive ecosystem. The critical cog governing the rate and pace of this shift is the management of the test and verification of AVs. In this SAE EDGE™ report, six senior industry leaders in the impacted ecosystems essay articles which describe sectors of the current automotive ecosystem and

Razdan, Rahul

Maximizing Biomanufacturing Productivity in Single-Use Applications

TBMG-3551811/1/2019

Biologics and personalized medicine are increasingly becoming more popular — causing the biomanufacturing industry to change. Instead of sticking to large-scale production processes, manufacturers are looking for new ways to be agile. To reduce product changeover times and improve efficiency, many are turning to single-use technologies, which use disposable bioprocessing equipment instead of stainless steel. Because they avoid time-consuming clean-in-place (CIP) and steam-in-place (SIP) processes between batches, single-use products lower labor, material, and utility costs and improve time to market.

Researchers Develop Eco-Friendly Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives

TBMG-3533010/1/2019

Chemical engineering researchers at Oregon State University have developed a vegetable-oil-based adhesive that could provide an eco-friendly option in making items such as bandages, sticky notes, and postage stamps.

Reimagining Innovation: Additive Manufacturing

TBMG-345706/1/2019

In the injectable drug-delivery industry, expectations for improved patient experiences with administration and at-home delivery of therapeutic regimens are evolving. Products that combine the drug, its primary packaging, and a delivery system — commonly called combination products — are on the rise. The inclusion and expansion of digital elements in a delivery system can help deliver medical, sensor, and diagnostic information in real-time data streams. Such data can help caregivers provide better overall care, while other digital elements may encourage adherence to therapeutic regimens. Given these trends, additive manufacturing (AM) provides the opening for expansive idea generation and development agility that can lead to improved quality and new opportunities to disrupt the drug-delivery space.

Strategies for Low-Risk Sourcing of Components in a Constrained Market

TBMG-345626/1/2019

The medical device industry often looks to independent distributors to address chronic shortages in the availability of electronic components. Direct sourcing of electronic components for the medical device industry used to be pretty simple. An OEM would order direct from the manufacturer or through authorized distributors to obtain any required components. There was usually no need to look any further.

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

TBMG-339423/1/2019

Since 1967, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) has been the United States’ premier particle physics laboratory, working on the world's most advanced particle accelerators and digging down to the smallest building blocks of matter.

Single-Axis Motion Control Systems: Multi-Sourced vs. Single-Sourced

TBMG-3307810/1/2018

In today’s fast-paced industrial settings, speed and efficiency are key. Reducing time spent on sourcing, installing, and testing motion control systems can play a big role in cost containment and design cycle efficiency. Machine designers face a variety of challenges and ever-changing requirements. They customize and configure their designs to address global markets as well as customer-specific applications. Also, industry trends are moving to smart products, connectivity, total cost of ownership, efficiency, flexibility, and complete, integrated motion control systems. These factors change how components are researched, designed, purchased, tested, and implemented to optimize system performance.

Open innovation practices in the automotive industry: an exploratory comparison between Brazil and France

2018-36-02109/3/2018

A decade and a half after its conception, Open Innovation (OI) is still a growing topic in the academic community. The automotive industry, however, is no stranger to the subject and activities that are now known as OI practices have been an integral part to automotive new product development activities for decades. The purpose of the present study is to analyze how open innovation occurs in the automotive industry and to compare exploratory results between Brazil's and France's automaker industries. The study introduces a brief literature review concerning the topics of Product Development Process (PDP) and OI, paving the path towards the analyzed constructs. The chosen research approach was that of a survey, with 57 responses from Brazilian automakers and 15 from French. Questions were designed and then analyzed under three main constructs: barriers and perceived risks in implementing OI projects, the main actors involved in OI, and the main OI activities or practices performed by

Marin, Rafael, Kaminski, Paulo Carlos, Armellini, Fabiano, Bouchardy, Antoine

Researchers Develop At-Home Pap Smear Test

TBMG-289225/1/2018

An at-home Pap smear test is designed to reduce anxiety associated with the procedure and give women more control over their health without interfering with their work or social life. The Domi Care, designed by industrial design graduate Lauren Emmerson and current senior Anastasia Miller, was recently awarded first place in the International Housewares Association Student Design Competition.

2016 Create the Future Design Contest: Electronics Category Winner

TBMG-2576711/1/2016

Shaun McWherter, Mark Skoog, and Jamie Willhite, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA; and Loyd Hook, University of Tulsa, OK

How to Enhance Gear Shift Feel of North-South Transmission Layout

2016-01-235710/17/2016

Globalization has intensively driven focus of car manufacturers on comfort and ergonomics. Luxuries are becoming essential features of product mix. Customer’s expectations and desires are changing because of cut throat competition and increasing variety of options. In order to sustain in marketplace, OEM has to be competitive while providing features and options with appropriate quality. Vigorously changing dimensions and definitions of comfort level, luxury and aesthetics has driven the intense focus of OEM’s on customer touch points, customer touch points are those components of vehicle which customer accesses while driving the vehicle and they play vital role in generating drive feel of vehicle. Customer’s drive feel about the vehicle is most complex and critical factor and is of subjective nature. Now days drive feel is an important aspect of product differentiation. Gear shift feel is very crucial touch point in overall drive feel of vehicle. Customer desires overall Gear shift

Gurav, Onkar P., Deshmane, Santosh

Heterogeneous Spacecraft Networks

TBMG-253639/1/2016

Heterogeneous Spacecraft Networks (HSNs) are network environments in which spacecraft from different missions and institutions can communicate with each other at a low cost and with low impact on overall system resources. The technology of heterogeneous wireless networks has yet to be extended to space networks, where multiple spacecraft operating with various platforms use wireless technology to communicate. This communication need is growing given the increasing number of small satellites or nanosats being launched. Enabling such communication is significant, because connecting spacecraft offers a multiplier effect, connecting limited-capability spacecraft from small countries and institutions with more established networks that offer the possibility of an abundance of useful information for all concerned. In a growing sector where commercial space is ascending, allowing facile data transfer between a wide variety of space hardware and commercial communication platforms will soon be

Improving Children’s Prosthetic Hands

TBMG-247646/1/2016

A team of electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering students at Rice University, calling itself Carpal Diem, has developed a testing suite to validate how well 3D-printed prosthetic hands transfer force from the wearer, usually a child born without a fully formed hand, to the prosthetic intended to help pick up and manipulate small objects.

CITIZEN of the WORLD

16AUTP02_032/1/2016

Cuneyt L. Oge begins his term as 2016 SAE International President with a vision about auto-mobility and aero-mobility 2050. He was born in Turkey, spent time in the U.S. as a young adolescent, graduated high school in Europe, returned to the U.S. for college, learned to speak multiple languages, married a Greek, and traveled the world. “As my name implies, I'm a bit of a curiosity,” allowed incoming SAE International President Cuneyt Oge (pronounced June-eight Oh-gay). The veteran management consultant, who officially took over as SAE President in January, puts no negative spin on that self-appraisal. Quite the contrary, as he goes on to say: “I think I qualify as a bona fide citizen of the world.”

Ponticel, Patrick

Looking at mobility in 2050

16OFHP02_052/1/2016

Cuneyt L. Oge begins his term as 2016 SAE International President with a vision about the future of auto- and aero-mobility. Cuneyt L. Oge was born in Turkey, spent time in the U.S. as a young adolescent, graduated high school in Europe, went to college in the U.S., learned to speak multiple languages, married a Greek, and traveled the world. “As my name implies, I'm a bit of a curiosity,” allowed incoming SAE International President Cuneyt Oge (pronounced June-eight Oh-gay). The veteran management consultant puts no negative spin on that self-appraisal. Quite the contrary, as he goes on to say: “I think I qualify as a bona fide citizen of the world.”

Ponticel, Patrick

Prospects on Diffusion of Agriculture Hybrid Tractors Equipped with On Board High Voltage System

2015-01-28279/29/2015

The assessment of hybrid tractor architectures raises several questions such as the suitable amount of electrical power to install and how to design the hybrid drivetrain with respect to the tractor's functionalities and requirements. For the medium term, it is expectable that tractors will provide around 100- 150kW of electrical power. This electrical power will be used: to drive tractor internal consumers (fan, AC compressor…), to enable traction and to supply connected implements with electrical power. We assume that the apparition of the electrification ad hybridization for agriculture machinery will follow two major phases; transitory phase and final phase. We focus this work on the transitory phase. During a transitory phase, the mechanical power take-off (PTO) and hydraulic supply for the implement will coexist with an electrical power supply. In this work, we try to imagine the different scenarios and the prospects of the apparition of the hybrid technology in the agriculture

Hammar, Abderrahmane

Cost reduction in Low-cost Emerging Economies for Sustainable Growth - Principles, Processes, Tools & Techniques

2015-01-28659/29/2015

Cost-reduction and cost competitiveness have emerged as major strategic tools to an enterprise and are being used all over the world to fight for survival as well as maintain sustainable growth. Maximization of value-creation by enriching the planet, people and the economy should be the key drivers leading to cost-reduction strategies in any business. The main objectives of this paper are to explain the Processes and Principles of Cost-reduction in technology-transfer to low-cost emerging economies to achieve sustainable cost-reduction and create a culture of cost-consciousness throughout an organization. DivgiWarner has not only designed and developed but has also been practicing unique processes of cost-reduction utilizing various tools as, 1 Value Analysis and Value Engineering 2 Cost-reduction through productivity improvement 3 Supply Chain Management (SCM) 4 Lean Manufacturing 5 Total Quality Management (TQM) 6 Control over fixed Costs 7 Working Capital and Fund-Flow Management 8

Kulkarni, Damodar, Deore, Pankaj

Interactive Work Instructions for Bell 525 Relentless

F-0071-2015-10202

5/5/2015

ABSTRACT The manufacturing industry has put into practice a methodology that embraces Design for Manufacturing and Globalization. Competition in the global manufacturing industry demands greater forethought in new product development. Products must transition through the development lifecycle faster, provide flexibility to transfer manufacturing operations to other countries, facilitate cost reduction and augment strategic market objectives. To achieve these goals at Bell Helicopter, the new Bell 525 Relentless has made extensive use of Engineering Digital Product Definition (DPD) and Interactive Work Instructions (IWI). A cultural change achieved the end result of a design that contains a new product structure capable of leveraging global technology resources, with creative delivery of work instructions for manufacturing.

Grenier, Isabelle