Additive Manufacturing at GE Aviation
Can jet engine parts really be made from powder? General Electric certainly thinks so.
Open Innovation at NASA: Impact in Culture
The open innovation initiative implemented by NASA generated divergent opinions among the R&D professionals working for the agency. The problem that NASA faces with the implementation of open innovation is how to organize and shift the culture, roles and processes to embrace such trend.
Kevin Stein at TransDigm Group
Kevin Stein, CEO of TransDigm Group (“TDG”), a leading “designer, producer and supplier of highly engineered aircraft components,” gazed out his office window, playing back his conversation with CFO Michael Lisman from November 8, 2018. The debate du jour: does General Electric's innovation in Additive Manufacturing pose a threat to TDG's dominance of their end-market?
Expanding Open Innovation at NASA
In the last decade, NASA started using Open Innovation approaches to solve some of the world's most complicated problems. Now, the company will need to think about how to solve potential implementation challenges as the company scales up these approaches.
Is Boeing Switching to Autopilot? – Machine Learning in the Aerospace Industry
Machine learning is perceived to be the holy grail of business rejuvenation and its adoption a direct route to capturing future markets. Will the aerospace industry and Boeing prove that these expectations may not always be straight out of “la la land”?
Additive Manufacturing at GE in the Midst of a Turnaround (797 words)
GE has been a leader of additive manufacturing in aerospace. How will they keep innovating while facing pressure from investors?
SpaceX – Surviving Enrico’s Paradox
SpaceX is in an epic effort to make humans a multi-planetary species, and escape the trap of Fermi's Paradox. To achieve this the Company has been adopting 3D-printing to gain efficiencies and reduce costs. Will it be enough?
Rolls-Royce: Optimising jet engine maintenance with machine learning
Rolls-Royce is looking to machine learning to optimise how it maintains over 13,000 jet engines currently flying around the world
How Additive Manufacturing Can Unlock Boeings Biggest Challenges
Boeing stands to reap great gains from a considered adoption of additive manufacturing by viewing this megatrend from a strategic perspective, beyond just a narrow tactical one
Shooting for Mars: How Startup Relativity Space Is Using 3D Printing to Go Intergalactic
A look into startup Relativity Space and its use of 3D printing for the development of space-bound rockets.