Actualité aéronautique

Grant Thornton LLP Releases New White Paper: A well-oiled machine: Maximizing machinery and equipment opportunities, minimizing risks

transmise le 13 juin 2011 par Business Wire

Grant Thornton LLP’s Manufacturing practice today announced the release of A well-oiled machine: Maximizing machinery and equipment opportunities, minimizing risks. The paper addresses and analyzes the machinery and equipment market, highlighting critical issues facing companies that span the strategic, tax, regulatory and operational landscape. The whitepaper also recommends a number of relevant considerations and best practices for machinery and equipment manufacturers as they look to manage their challenges, their companies and their bottom line, as well as pursue new business opportunities.

Customer Complaints Spike at Lufthansa, Decrease at British Airways and Air France, Says New Report by UNITE HERE

transmise le 13 juin 2011 par Business Wire

In April 2011, the U.S. Department of Transportation issued a new passenger rights rule that will give the United States greater regulatory authority regarding customer complaints about foreign airlines. For example, for the first time the rule will require international carriers like Lufthansa to provide substantive response to passenger complaints.

iBASEt Announces New PLM Execution Strategy for the Extended Enterprise at PlanetPTC Live

transmise le 13 juin 2011 par Business Wire

iBASEt, a leading provider of operations execution and quality management software for discrete, complex manufacturers, is bringing to market a new “Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Execution” platform through an integration with PTC’s PLM suite. iBASEt recently moved to PTC’s PartnerAdvantage Gold Tier, enabling the companies to work closer together and further integrate the capabilities of PTC’s Creo™ and Windchill® solutions with iBASEt’s Solumina® software suite. Solumina encompasses supplier quality management, manufacturing execution system (MES), and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) functionality.

AIS Expands a Line of Human Machine Interface (HMI) Computers Supporting Third-Party HMI/SCADA Software Applications for Industrial Automation and Control Applications

transmise le 13 juin 2011 par Business Wire

American Industrial Systems, Inc. (AIS) is an ISO 9001:2008 certified supplier and manufacturer of flexible, reliable, and ruggedized human machine interface (HMI) touch computers for open platform industrial automation, control, and visualization applications. These HMI touch computers are available in 5.7", 7", 10.1", 10.4", 12.1", 15", 17", and 19" dimensions. All the terminals feature a Windows-based operating system; high performance processors; low power consumption; compact form factor; and a variety of I/Os including USB, Rs-232, RS422/485, and Ethernet ports.

SANYO Semiconductor Introduces Audio Processing Solution for Portable Applications such as IC Recorders

transmise le 12 juin 2011 par Business Wire

SANYO Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (an ON Semiconductor company) today announced the introduction of LC823425, an audio processing solution for portable devices such as IC recorders. This product features a built-in hardwired MP3 encoder/decoder system, enabling the industry’s lowest power consumption of 5 milliwatts (mW) and supporting advanced functionality via a built-in digital signal processor (DSP).

SPEEA executive director proposes a new way to negotiate union contracts with Boeing

transmise le 11 juin 2011 par Business Wire

Recognizing the need to avoid disruption to airplane production, the union representing nearly 22,000 engineers and technical workers at The Boeing Company is proposing the two sides use binding binary interest arbitration to resolve fiscal differences during the next round of contract talks. Agreement to the proposal eliminates the possibility of a strike or lockout.

TAAG Angola Airlines Purchases Boeing 777-300ER Aircraft Backed by Ex-Im Bank

transmise le 11 juin 2011 par PRNewswire

US Airways Issues Statement Regarding System Outage

transmise le 11 juin 2011 par Business Wire

US Airways is experiencing a computer systems outage that has impacted usairways.com and the airline's airport computer systems.

PFSweb Announces Results of 2011 Annual Meeting of Stockholders

transmise le 10 juin 2011 par Business Wire

PFSweb, Inc. , an international business process outsourcing services provider of end-to-end web commerce solutions, today announced that all corporate proposals were approved at the Company’s 2011 Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on June 10, 2011.

Kaman Completes Re-Pricing of Credit Facilities

transmise le 10 juin 2011 par Business Wire

Kaman Corporation announced today the completion of the re-pricing of its senior secured credit facilities, comprised of a $275 million revolving credit facility and a $39 million term loan facility. The re-priced facilities will initially have a reduced interest rate of LIBOR plus 137.5 basis points compared to an interest rate of LIBOR plus 200.0 basis points prior to the amendment.