Direct Ship Guidance for Aerospace Companies

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Aerospace Companies

“Suburban Warriors”: The Blue-Collar and Blue-Sky Communities of Southern California’s Aerospace Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Layne Karafantis ◽  
Stuart W. Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Aerospace Industry ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Corporate Planning ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Aerospace Companies ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Suburban Landscape ◽  
Edge Cities

Los Angeles’s aerospace suburbs no longer have many aerospace companies or workers in them, but their legacy—a geographical division of labor, class, and race reflected in and reinforced by corporate planning—continues to shape the region’s suburban landscape. In the early 1960s, aerospace companies relocated their new divisions to the emerging edge cities of greater Los Angeles. Until the end of the Cold War, these “blue-sky” suburbs—white, white-collar, and with predominantly male workforces—reinterpreted the California dream for an upper-middle class who believed they had little in common with their blue-collar counterparts left behind in older working-class communities.

Wage Rule Formation in the Aerospace Industry

ILR Review ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher L. Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Union Wage ◽  
Aerospace Industry ◽  
Wage Bargaining ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Wage Determination ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Lump Sum ◽  
Aerospace Companies

This study of wage bargaining in the aerospace industry focuses particularly on lump sum bonuses, one-time cash disbursements that generally accompany lower increases in the base wage than were formerly standard. Although such bonuses, which appeared in aerospace companies before they appeared in other large manufacturing industries, were viewed as a union concession, they persisted into the 1989 bargaining round despite a sharp upturn in the fortunes of the most prominent aerospace company. The author regards that fact, as well as the weakening of both inter- and intra-industry pattern bargaining, as support for the view that a significant shift in union wage determination occurred in the 1980s. He argues, however, based on interviews with managers, union officials, and workers, that consensus has not yet been achieved on the meaning of this shift.

scholarly journals The Analysis of the Influence of Riveting Parameters Specified in Selected Riveting Instructions on Residual Stresses

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (6) ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
Wojciech Wronicz ◽  
Jerzy Kaniowski
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Numerical Simulations ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Industry Standards ◽  
Riveted Joints ◽  
Aerospace Companies ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The riveting parameters strongly affect residual stresses induced during riveting, which in turn have an impact on the fatigue life of riveted joints. Since rivets are established as critical from the fatigue point of view, the fatigue life of riveted joints often determines the life of the whole structure. The authors were able to become acquainted with three riveting instructions (process specifications) used by the aerospace companies from western Europe. This work presents the analysis of the riveting parameters' influence on residual stresses around the rivets. The impact of the clearance between a rivet shank and a hole as well as driven head dimensions and a rivet length were investigated based on the numerical simulations. The aim of the analysis was to determine the range of stresses variation when the requirements of the riveting instructions are fulfilled. For the purposes of comparison, the calculations were performed also with the parameters as specified in the Polish industry standards. For all calculations, the geometry of the universal rivet MS20470 was used. The results show that residual stresses can vary strongly depending on the parameters in the instructions and standard requirements.

scholarly journals Educating Aerospace Design Engineers: Perspectives from Design Creativity Theory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suo Tana ◽  
Catharine Marsden ◽  
Yong Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Test Bed ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Design Engineers ◽  
Design Creativity ◽  
Aerospace Companies ◽  
Concordia University ◽  
Recent Graduates ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University

When seeking candidates for engineering design positions, aerospace companies usually seek to hire high qualified professionals while overlooking recent graduates from engineering schools. The reason for this is the opinion that most of the engineers graduating from universities do not possess the skill sets the companies are seeking and that it takes too long to train recent graduates in the complexities of the aerospace design process. There is a need to minimize the gap between the needs of the aerospace industry and the training of engineers at the university level and this need cannot be met without the collaboration of aerospace firms, universities and government. In this paper, we propose an approach toeducating undergraduate aerospace engineering students based on design creativity theory. The NSERC Chair in Aerospace Design Engineering (NCADE) at Concordia University will be used as a test bed to implement, validate, improve and promote this educational strategy.

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