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COPERNICAL.COM
COPERNICAL.COM is the space professionals networking portal and is aimed at facilitating communication exchange amongst professionals involved in the space industry and space science fields. It provides a site for all participants in these fields including students, engineers, managers and decision-makers to present their activities and discuss issues in an open forum across the world. It also provides free and open data resources for space companies and space missions and space-related science and technology. If you are looking for information, wishing to build teams, or just want to share your experiences or projects, then this is the place for you!
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Sapienza Consulting Awarded Three-Year Contract by RAL Space
Sapienza Consulting today announces it has been awarded a three-year contract to supply the ECLIPSE software suite and professional services to RAL Space, which is an integral part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL).
RAL Space joins the growing list of successful European SMEs that benefit from adopting modules of the ECLIPSE suite in their space projects management processes.
In particular, RAL Space will take advantage of the Document Configuration & Change Management (DCCM), the Non-Conformance Tracking System (eNCTS) and Action Items Manager (AIM) modules.
Mike Bearman, Managing Director at Sapienza Consulting said: “We are proud to welcome on board RAL Space. Not only is RAL Space our first UK based client but their procurement of the ECLIPSE suite follows an increasing adoption of our ECSS-compliant toolset. We see this as a great step forward for Sapienza into a growing UK space sector, and an opportunity to open further doors to the UK (aero)-space and defence sector through the expected industry usage of the magnificent RAL facilities.”
ECLIPSE is the only collaborative suite of integrated applications designed with the invaluable experience of space industry professionals for use by European space sector organisations ranging from Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) all the way to International Agencies.
The ECLIPSE software suite helps space project and mission teams achieve higher efficiency, better control and compliance to ECSS (European Collaboration for Space Standardization) in key project and business areas such as:
- Project Management (PM)
- Product Assurance (PA)
- Configuration Management (CM)
- Quality Assurance (QA).
The DCCM module fulfils all the document configuration requirements of a space project. Each integrated function is tailored specifically for the space industry’s needs and best practices. Furthermore, it supports the document’s entire evolution (i.e. creation, modification, evolution and distribution) throughout the document lifecycle.
eNCTS is the only commercially available ECSS-compliant software that enables recording, monitoring and closure of Non-Conformances (NCs) found during the design, manufacture, assembly, integration and testing phases of space system engineering projects. The Non-Conformance Tracking System (eNCTS) tool removes the need of managing NCs (and all associated information) via time-consuming, error-prone, paper-oriented processes. eNCTS provides Quality and space Product Assurance functions with improved visibility into the status of NCs, as well as a structured approach to collecting and managing critical data associated with the NC resolution and product realisation process.
AIM allows the creation, allocation, monitoring and tracking of Action Items (AIs) and their associated information across small and large project teams alike. Each Action Item can be allocated to an Actionee and multiple Contributors, who can access and contribute to the Action Item’s progress, completion and closure via the web, in accordance with security permissions. Each AI enables all those involved to collaborate via a thread-based discussion capability, which permits additional information to be provided in the form of video, images or document attachments.
About Sapienza Consulting Group
The Sapienza Consulting Group is a leading provider of space mission and project support through people, software and services. Since 1994, Sapienza has been a supplier to the European Space Agency, as well as the other key players of the European institutional and commercial space sector. The Group now consists of strategically located offices in Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, The United Kingdom, Belgium and France.
For Media information contact:
Sapienza Consulting Group
Space Business Park
Kapteynstraat 1
2201 BB
Noordwijk
The Netherlands
Ph: +31(0)71 407 6518
Fx: +31(0)71 407 6536
New revolutionary way to recruit talents for the space industry in the Netherlands, UK and beyond
Manchester (UK), 1 June 2017 – Sapienza Consulting Holding BV, the holding company of the Sapienza Consulting Group and LIFT BV (one of its participating companies) announce at the UK Space 2017 Conference that they will extend the deployment of the revolutionary Lift app to cover the UK territory within the next few months.
LIFT is a start-up based in the Netherlands which is revolutionising the recruitment world with its talent matching mobile solution based on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and big data.
Already well established in providing talents to industry leaders in the space industry and to space agencies such as ESA and EUMETSAT, the acquisition of a share in Lift is a game changer in the way Sapienza can attract students and professionals from across sectors for its clients.
Andrea Bennetti, Commercial Director of Sapienza, says:
“The space sector, like many other high tech sectors, struggle to find and retain highly skilled personnel who will work on ground-breaking technologies and missions. Whilst the industry is generally recruiting within the existing space sector, LIFT provides the opportunity for employers and professionals to broaden their perspective, by matching an organisation’s Passion, Purpose and Potential with those of individuals at various stages in their career who would otherwise not necessarily think about a career path in the space sector.”
By matching Sapienza’s in-depth understanding of the space sector and the innovative solution provided by LIFT, Sapienza will provide a UK-dedicated networking platform that will bring more effective results in terms of recruitment and retention of talents within space companies.
About Sapienza Consulting (Holding BV) Group
The Sapienza Consulting Group is a leading provider of Space & Defence mission and project support through people, software and services. Since 1994, Sapienza has been a supplier to the European Space Agency, as well as the other key players of the European institutional and commercial space sector. The Group now consists of strategically located offices and subsidiaries in Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, The United Kingdom, Belgium and France.
For Media information contact:
Space Business Park
Kapteynstraat 1
2201 BB
Noordwijk
The Netherlands
Ph: +31(0)71 407 6518
Fx: +31(0)71 407 6536
About LIFT
The easiest way to discover companies, vacancies and other career opportunities. Based on your passion, purpose and potential, Lift gives you personal career recommendations that match your profile.
How does it work?
By swiping cards with easy to answer questions, we get to know what you like and give you (career) recommendations. You'll discover companies and positions in your area that fit your interests.
Whether you're actively looking or quietly browsing, Lift is in the background to spot new positions for you. So when you're ready for the next step in your career, you can easily find the opportunities available. Download the app on www.liftapp.com.
For Media information contact:
Nicole van Haelst
Ph: +31 654980909
Email:
Sapienza Consulting Invests in Innovative Dutch AI and Big-data Start-up – LIFT BV
The Hague, 12 May 2017 – Sapienza Consulting Holding BV, the holding company of the Sapienza Consulting (Holding BV) Group today announces that it has entered into an agreement for the acquisition of a major stake in LIFT BV. LIFT is a Dutch start-up founded by Robbert Dijkstra and Nicole van Haelst and it has already received financial and other support from the municipality of The Hague, Leiden University, the International Community Platform (ICP) and The Hague University of Applied Sciences.
The company’s major innovative product, the LIFT app, is poised to transform the recruitment sector. Robbert Dijkstra, Founder, says:
“Lift is a revolutionary talent-matching solution based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Lift invites students and professionals from all sectors to map out their personal drivers, values and competencies via a user-friendly and playful mobile app. As the app’s AI engine learns about candidates and opportunities (jobs, internships and apprenticeships) available online, it provides recommendations for career opportunities and supports development based on Passion, Purpose and Potential.”
As part of the deal, the Sapienza Group Commercial Director, Andrea Bennetti, will join the LIFT Board to help identify growth opportunities, as well as implement other potential market synergies that promote the LIFT team’s talents in AI and data science in the main sectors of Sapienza, i.e. Space and Defence. Andrea Bennetti says:
“We are excited to be partnering with LIFT, a truly innovative start-up that brings to the Sapienza group of companies new competences in software AI, Machine Learning and Big Data, while also fitting naturally with our core business area of Manpower, where we believe the LIFT app will be a game-changer. We are sure that our networks, customers and business partners will recognise the same potential that we have seen in the LIFT app and will adopt it without hesitation.”
About Sapienza Consulting (Holding BV) Group
The Sapienza Consulting Group is a leading provider of Space & Defence mission and project support through people, software and services. Since 1994, Sapienza has been a supplier to the European Space Agency as well as the other key players of the European institutional and commercial space sector. The Group now consists of strategically located offices and subsidiaries in Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, The United Kingdom, Belgium and France.
For Media information contact:
Space Business Park
Kapteynstraat 1
2201 BB
Noordwijk
The Netherlands
Ph: +31(0)71 407 6518
Fx: +31(0)71 407 6536
About LIFT
The easiest way to discover companies, vacancies and other career opportunities. Based on your passion, purpose and potential, Lift gives you personal career recommendations that match your profile.
How does it work?
By swiping cards with easy to answer questions, we get to know what you like and give you (career) recommendations. You'll discover companies and positions in your area that fit your interests.
Whether you're actively looking or quietly browsing, Lift is in the background to spot new positions for you. So when you're ready for the next step in your career, you can easily find the opportunities available. Download the app on www.liftapp.com
For Media information contact:
Nicole van Haelst
Ph: +31 654980909
Email:
Terma GmbH
Terma GmbH is the German software and services company of Terma A/S www.terma.com that specialises in mission-critical products, software, and services for space missions.
It has more than 70 staff around Germany, experts in a wide range of systems and operations engineering for the support of space programmes and missions. It specialises in the development of customised ground/space segment applications such as Mission Control Systems, Operational Simulators, Automation, and Software Validation Systems. It provides professional engineering supports and training at the customer sites. Terma GmbH offers products and services in the emulation of the LEON family processors as well as in the Integration & System Testing of complex systems interacting at different geographical locations.
Please also find us on:
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/166334?trk=tyah
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Terma_Global
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TermaTV
Concurrent Design Platform (CDP)
“CDP™ made by engineers for engineers. It does what it needs to do,.... and more !”
The J‑CDS Concurrent Design Platform (CDP™) is the main engineering tool to support multidisciplinary teams to perform Concurrent Design in cooperation with and participation of the customer. It provides all the required integrated design and modelling capabilities to support the multidisciplinary team in their collaborative work, allowing them to come up with a solution for the customer, taking into account the full life cycle perspective of the system.
Concurrent Design
Concurrent Design is a systematic approach to integrated product design that emphasises the response to customer expectations and the combination of creativity and engineering. It embodies team values of cooperation, trust and sharing, in such a manner that decision making is by consensus, involving all perspectives in parallel, from the beginning of the product life cycle.
Concurrent Design focuses mainly on the early phases of a project or product, such as preliminary design and feasibility studies. The central principles of Concurrent Design are
- A multidisciplinary team working together to exchange, share and discuss all aspects of a design
- A structured and guided design process
- The presence of the customer providing feedback on the main design and trade-off decisions
- Using one common reference model
- Turning multidisciplinary design sessions into concrete values supported by experts
- Representing all perspectives of the product life cycle
The outcome of Concurrent Design provides management with a very good and complete view of the system/product, thus facilitating their decision-making processes and as such reducing the overall risk of the project from the start.
Concurrent Design has proven to be a powerful design methodology for the early design phases of multidisciplinary projects. It is applicable to a wide variety of projects and industries. Activities have been performed by J‑CDS for complex system design, for Concurrent Design for System-of-System Architectures, for proposal creation, tender evaluation and planning design. One-off projects can be equally well supported as recurring feasibility studies. Multidisciplinary teams have been involved ranging from only customer internal teams to teams involving participants of various independent SMEs, companies and research institutes. Topics are as varied as housing design in the construction sector, medical equipment, small-series electronics and complex satellites within Europe’s leading space companies. The collocated design sessions for projects have been performed in locations ranging from sufficiently equipped meeting rooms to dedicated Concurrent Design facilities.
To implement Concurrent Design in industries as varied as Space, Defence & Security, Oil & Gas Infrastructure & Construction or Electronics, J‑CDS customises the process, the tools and the implementation according to the specific projects or industries.
Objectives of the CDP™
The objective of the J‑CDS Concurrent Design Platform (CDP™) is to support multidisciplinary design teams to perform Concurrent Design. The CDP™ is designed and built by users and engineers for users and engineers.
The CDP™ is a web enabled distributed Concurrent Design tool which is fully scalable and customisable. The CDP™ provides the required integrated design and modelling capabilities to the multidisciplinary team.
Customer Benefits
Concurrent Design and the CDP™ give various advantages and benefits
- Reduction of design/engineering time → product cost and lead time → Time To Market
- Increase in profitability
- Improvement in competitiveness
- A tool compliant with the Concurrent Design methodology
- Standardization of design results and methods
- Build-up of corporate knowledge in model (maximise re-use)
- Increase design control and audit trail
- Reduction in number of engineering changes during next phases
- Evaluate more product options
- Increase in involvement among employees
- Increase in employee efficiency
- Improvement in product quality
- Higher customer satisfaction
- Reduction of overall risk in the project
Overview of the CDP™ capabilities and features
The CDP™ contains the principles of Concurrent Design as an integral part of the tool to reach these objectives.
The CDP™ is used to create an integrated parametric design with supporting calculations specific to the industries standards and data models. The CDP™ is a flexible and reliable tool for the early design phases of projects, focused on allowing a multidisciplinary team to create and share up-to-date design information.
The CDP™ is able to support a design team in the early design phases with the following key capabilities. The CDP™
- Provides a collaborative working environment
- Work compliant with the Concurrent Design methodology
- Provides a clear audit trail in the design process
- Allows customer participation and access to the design information in the CDP™
- Allows the multidisciplinary team to work on the project. Access possible for
- Collocated teams through an intranet connection
- Geographically distributed teams through internet connection
- Supports requirements discovery by the team together with the customer
- Create a structured list of requirements in the CDP™ Requirements Manager
- Allows to monitor the status of the design, checking against the requirements
- Linking requirements to the design in the CDP™ Requirements Manager
- Allows to build a common and shared data model
- Parameterised model in CDP™ Product Tree
- Reuse of modelling elements through CDP™ Activity Library
- Allows to manage the design team in the design activity
- User management with ability to define roles with appropriate rights, according to the needs of the organisation or project
- Management of the technical and non-technical disciplines assigned to users
- Allows to investigate and assess various design solutions with configuration control
- Management of the design cycle through options and iterations management
- Allows to assess various design solutions and track progress in the design work
- Allows the stringent control of data flow
- Control the flow of information exchange through e.g. publishing and request mechanisms
- Allows to store and manage additional sources of design information and data
- Storage and management provided by the CDP™ Document Management System
- Allows to prepare and synthesize CD Activity information on all levels for all team members
- Overview provided by the Concurrent Design Synthesis Dashboard (CDSD™)
- Supports the customer in taking a decision on the most promising solution direction
The CDP™ architecture and features
The CDP™ consists of several components.
The CDP™ Back-End is a structured storage of all the data, providing easy and secure access to data. The Concurrent Design methodology is embedded in the structure of the database.
The information is accessed and managed through the CDP™ Client as main modelling tool. It provides various features and functionalities for administrative actions in a CD activity, e.g. user management, activity management, data exchange control and session management, including session checklists, minutes of meeting and action assignment. Furthermore it supports engineering actions, e.g. setting up and using the design model, tracking parameters and tracing the compliance of the requirements, with the ability to link these to design parameters in the various solution directions.
The team members make use of Microsoft Excel® spread sheets as their engineering work space. These CDP™ Workbooks provide a filtered view on the complete data model in the CDP™ Back-End that allows the engineer to perform design work and calculations within their domain and share that the necessary information with the other team members. This interaction is managed by CDP™ input and output sheets as interface to the CDP™ Back-End. These CDP Workbooks can be customised to include models and calculation sheets for specific disciplines, as well as to provide links between the CDP™ Workbooks and external tools, e.g. other Microsoft Excel® spread sheets, 3D tools such as CATIA, simulation and calculation tools such as Simulink® or MATLAB®.
Additional modules are available integrated into the CDP™ or as self-standing tools with the possibility to interact with the CDP™. The CDP™ Requirements Manager is used to provide traceability of requirements throughout the design activity. Next to the design information in the parametric model itself, the CDP™ has an integrated Document Management System (DMS) to keep track of a wider source of related project information, with possibilities to link these to the actual design model for a better understanding. An example of a self-standing tool is the J‑CDS Stakeholder Value Mapper, to be used for stakeholder analysis in projects. This tool allows to identify stakeholders and their associated goals, values and requirements in a project.
The Concurrent Design Synthesis Dashboard (CDSD™) provides a constant overview to the system engineer and domain engineers in a Concurrent Design activity of the key design information and the status of the process. It combines a set of tools related to the different phases of the CD activity (i.e. initiation, preparation, study, reporting) and visualizes key information. The CDSD ™ consists of 2 main parts, a dashboard view and a toolbox. The CDSD ™ fulfils the need of the team to have an intuitive view of and access to key design information and progress at all times.
The CDP™ Forum provides an additional layer of interaction, giving the team members providing access to the design information from the CDP™ Back-End, see action lists, minutes of meeting and session information as well as providing opportunities to interact in online discussions.
Key technical information
The CDP™ has regular updates, improving the user experience and adding new functionalities based on best practices from industry and user requests.
Client software prerequisites
- Supported operating systems in general: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
- Microsoft Office 97-2003, 2007 or 2010 (32-bit version)
The CDP™ server can be hosted by J‑CDS or installed at the customer location. The CDP™ can be set-up to run secure over the internet using SSL.
Contact
For more information about J-CDS and/or about this product please contact us via arne.matthyssenADDj-cds.nl.
Astrium
Astrium is an aerospace subsidiary of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS). It provides civil and defence space systems and services.
In 2008, Astrium had a turnover of €4.3 billion and 15,000 employees in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain and the Netherlands.
