Following his keynote address at ESI Global Forum 2010, Roger Herdy,
Program Manager for Qualis Corporation supporting the NASA Marshall
Space Flight Center, presented a commemorative plaque of the
International Space Station to Alain de Rouvray, ESI
Groups Chairman and CEO, recognizing the importance of ESI
software to the success of the Space Station Program. Making the
presentation, Roger Herdy commented that the Space Station would be
visible that night as it passed directly over Munich, the site of the
Forum.
“Vdot was invaluable in managing a development project with a very
distributed engineering team, spread across several disciplines and
tools”
Qualis develops systems specifically designed to control the working
environment biosphere for spacecraft and astronauts. This capability
includes life support for operations requiring man-in-the-loop test and
evaluation of pre-flight and flight hardware. For instance, Qualis
supports the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) science and
chemistry laboratory that provides data at the MSFC Environmental
Control Life Support Systems (ECLSS) Test Facility and supports also a
key component of the ECLSS program for the International Space Station
(ISS); the water processor that provides clean water to astronauts by
reusing all available moisture.
Qualis was motivated to present recognition due to their appreciation of
the ESI
simulation tools used in developing the space stations and in
recognition of the broad coverage of important physics in ESIs
software arsenal.
In fact, the complexity and diversity of NASAs advanced technologies
revealed the need not only to get individual simulation answers right,
but also to efficiently execute NASA best practices across distributed
teams. Documentation and right data were difficult to find even within
the content management system and knowing the projects status was
always a challenge for management.
What was evidently needed was to tie together CAD (Computer-Aided
Design) and CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering) tools from several vendors
such as ESI,
NASAs in-house CAE platforms and content management systems, and the
many other tools and utilities in use (asset management, requirement
management, etc). Qualis Corporation found the answer while attending a Vdot
seminar in Huntsville, USA.
Vdot,
ESIs
Integrated Platform for Project Planning, Execution and Management,
follows Lean
Six Sigma principles and offers an intuitive user interface turning
static, paper-based processes into active, electronic processes that can
be deployed, executed, managed, verified and continuously improved
across the enterprise. Process complexity is automatically handled by
the web portal which prioritizes team members work, bringing real-time
visibility to management.
Vdot was invaluable in managing a development project with a very
distributed engineering team, spread across several disciplines and
tools, declared Roger Herdy, Program Manager for Qualis
Corporation, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. We have indeed been
able to quickly define a great variety of processes at NASA, which
nowis evaluatingVdot as the tool for the future.
I am honoured and would like to thank you, Qualis Corporation, for
attributing to ESI this valuable recognition for the successful
contribution of Vdot in your advanced NASA projects, said Alain
de Rouvray, ESI Groups Chairman and CEO. It clearly
demonstrates how a world leading organization can achieve a quantum leap
in productivity from better compliance to best practices in flexible
workflow and process management. I am impressed and convinced by how you
proved the efficiency of Vdot in innovative and challenging projects to
support the discovery and honing of the acceptable to best practice.
Vdot is the right tool to use to foster innovative projects in any
industrial sectors, not only in aerospace. ESIs own use of Vdot is
growing substantially to support its Virtual Prototyping solutions, most
especially for R&D and Engineering Services projects.
For more information, please visit: http://www.esi-group.com/products/simulation-systems-integration/vdot
About Qualis Corp.
Qualis Corporation is a high technology business in the areas of
engineering analysis, design, testing, and support services to both
commercial and Government customers. Qualis is a woman-owned small
business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama near Redstone Arsenal and
the Marshall Space Flight Center. Qualiss core competencies are
Acquisition and Program Management, Test and Evaluation, Logistics and
Test and Evaluation. The company has employees in 16 states. NASA
Marshall Space Flight Center has named Qualis as the recipient of their
Contractor Excellence Award for Small Business Services for 2009, and
was recently named the 2nd of the Top Small Businesses in Alabama and
153rd of the Top Women-Owned Businesses in the United States. For
further information, visit www.qualis-corp.com.
About ESI
ESI
is a pioneer and world-leading solution provider in virtual prototyping
that takes into account the physics of materials. ESI
has developed an extensive suite of coherent, industry-oriented
applications to realistically simulate a products behavior during
testing, to fine-tune manufacturing processes in accordance with desired
product performance, and to evaluate the environments impact on
performance. ESIs
solutions fit into a single collaborative and open environment for
End-to-End Virtual Prototyping, thus eliminating the need for physical
prototypes during product development. The company employs over 750
high-level specialists worldwide covering more than 30 countries. ESI
Group is listed in compartment C of NYSE Euronext Paris. For further
information, visit www.esi-group.com.
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