We have NO AIRSPEED! How even a checklist is not enough…

How do the flight crew, ground crew and operations personnel of a commercial airliner miss crucial steps to verify that the aircraft has working airspeed indicators before takeoff? There are so many lessons to be learned here that will help any industry. Have you heard of Dr. Reason’s Swiss Cheese Model?

This was part of the discussion we had on our Industry Panel today for May. Enjoy!...

Chris Foot from RadixBay gives eight steps to take to improve your organization's data quality in a proactive way, before data errors and other issues cause business problems.

Establishing and maintaining high levels of data quality is a constant challenge for organizations -- and the unbridled growth in the amounts of data they're generating makes that task more difficult. The use of data to help uncover new business insights and drive effective decision-making is also increasing at...

Orbital Assembly Announces the Pioneer Space Station for Gravity Enabled Tourism and Commercial Use

Orbital Assembly Corporation (OAC), the only company developing the first commercially viable, space-based business park with gravity, announces plans for its Pioneer class station, the first free-flying, habitable, privately-operated facility in orbit.

The Pioneer-class are the world’s first and largest hybrid space stations for both work and stay. These customizable environments...

E-commerce businesses are becoming increasingly popular, especially after the Covid-19 pandemic. To meet the rising demand for e-commerce volumes, the e-commerce industry along with the logistic companies are shifting to automation.

There is a mutual growth between the eCommerce businesses and logistic industries, and it is a common trait.

Automation is nothing new for the logistic industry. Even the use of steam engines during the industrial revolution can be labelled...

The Security Development Lifecycle practiced by Trihedral Engineering in the development of VTScada has been assessed as meeting the requirements for Maturity Level 2.

In practice, this means that Trihedral Engineering are flowing a set of development procedures, which conform to industry standards, when developing their flagship SCADA software VTScada, ensuring that there are no unsafe practices.

One of the outcomes will be a Procedure for Management, Development and Testing...

A couple of days ago I decided to [write down some of the things I’ve learned about testing][testing_post] over the course of the last [several years.][codeascraft] In the course of enumerating the areas that benefit most from testing, I realized that I had accumulated a lot of specific thoughts about how we as programmers tend to abuse the concept of _time._ So I wrote another post called **“[falsehoods programmers believe about time][original_post],”** where I included 34 misconceptions...

Over the past couple of years I have spent a lot of time debugging other engineers’ test code. This was interesting work, occasionally frustrating but always informative. One might not immediately think that test code would have bugs, but of course all code has bugs and tests are no exception.

I have repeatedly been confounded to discover just how many mistakes in both test and application code stem from misunderstandings or misconceptions about time. By this I mean both the interesting...

Addressing the need for large-scale, safe uncrewed aviation, Iris Automation announces the commercial availability of Casia G, a ground-based version of its detect and avoid (DAA) surveillance solution. Using the same patented AI and computer vision technology as Iris Automation’s onboard solutions, it provides a full optical, 360°-degree field of regard designed to detect, alert and enable operators to avoid both co-operative and non- cooperative aircraft for safe beyond visual line of sight...

Google confirmed that its Fitbit wearables are now FDA-approved to detect atrial fibrillation, most commonly known as an irregular heartbeat, which can lead to stroke or heart failure. What will be different, we report, is that “the new tech provides a more always-on approach to AFib detection, versus the periodic checks currently available through the Fitbit app.”

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/11/da...s-of-afib/?cx_...

AT&T and Verizon’s expansion of nationwide 5G service, which was delayed for months because of concerns about airplane safety, kicked off last month without the travel chaos that airline executives had warned about.

A last-minute deal to restrict the high-speed cellular service near airports avoided mass cancellations, and the F.A.A. expanded the list of planes approved to land in low-visibility conditions at airports where 5G service is deployed, the focus of airlines’ conce...