Jo Reid,
Calvium has been certified by JOSCAR – the accreditation and compliance system for the defence and aerospace sectors, including prime contractors, civil aviation and security. Our client, QinetiQ, invited Calvium to register and now our compliance information is available to all buying organisations who are part of the JOSCAR community….
Jo Morrison,
‘Mobile apps are key to helping industry digitally transform its working practices’, says Jo Reid, Managing Director, of Calvium, specialists in designing and developing mobile solutions that deliver business-critical services. Reid, who will be speaking at the Digital Leaders Virtual Summit, says using mobile apps to improve or replace traditional,…
Aerospace & Engineering Digital Insights
Jo Reid,
How do business leaders navigate this crisis, now that many of our familiar, ‘go-to’ methods and assumptions have been rendered redundant? The answer is clear – innovate… and keep on innovating. Innovation, and Calvium’s approach to supporting organisations to innovate rapidly, is the theme of a feature in Aerospace Manufacturing…
Aerospace & Engineering Digital Insights
Jo Morrison,
Innovation isn’t easy. Writing ‘innovation’ is easy, saying ‘innovation’ is easy, but, critically, the act of doing and achieving innovation is difficult or at best – tricky. It involves creativity and experimentation, collaboration, serendipity and risk. Recently, I was invited to the Mansion House where the City of London and…
Aerospace & Engineering Digital Insights
Mary-Anne McCarron,
At the time of writing, the coronavirus pandemic is affecting us all. The ways that we work have been radically disrupted and many companies and employees have had to adapt rapidly to remote working. Due to the nature of our business and our global client base, Calvium has been practicing…
Aerospace & Engineering Digital Insights
Jo Reid,
Calvium’s innovation workshops are designed to be a structured and creative approach to ideation. The intent is to help businesses come up with new, concrete and viable concepts – underpinned by digital technologies – that can advance their organisations. Key to success is recognising those concepts which can be successfully…
Jo Reid,
More and more technical developers in the aerospace industry are now taking an Agile approach to project management, given its capability to deliver early and frequent iterations.
Aerospace & Engineering Mobile Technology
Jo Reid,
Digital twins have taken hold across a range of sectors. Whether as a vision for place and property management or as an operational feature of aerospace manufacturing, digital twins are part of the mix. So much so that Microsoft has recently introduced ‘Digital Twins’ to its Azure cloud computing service – helping you to create digital models of physical environments. As a company deeply involved in all things place, aerospace and Azure we thought it timely to provide a quick dip into some of the opportunities that digital twins afford business.
Aerospace & Engineering Digital Insights Mobile Technology
Jo Morrison,
The Barbican’s ‘More than Human’ exhibition explores creative and scientific developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and aims to demonstrate its potential to revolutionise our lives in many ways. Having visited it last week and come away overwhelmed by the kaleidoscope of concepts, sounds, information and objects combining to explore our relationships with technology, I thought it would be useful to focus this article on the basics of the AI revolution.
So, what is AI?
Jo Reid,
Innovation means doing something different that impacts favourably upon your business. Straightforward. That innovation can be relatively simple, like making something more efficient, or it can involve fundamental change, such as implementing a whole new engineering process to give you a competitive edge. Innovative solutions that have app technology at their core are familiar across the manufacturing sector; this article explores some ways to measure the success of harnessing app technology innovation in your business.
Aerospace & Engineering Digital Insights
Jo Reid,
As the latest figures show, labour productivity in UK manufacturing fell by 0.9% during the first quarter of 2019 and we continue to see weak performance in the UK economy. Thus, there is a business imperative and a huge opportunity to harness digital innovation to boost productivity. This article clearly explains…
Aerospace & Engineering Mobile Technology
Jo Reid,
Apps have a reputation problem. Mention the word ‘app’ to most people, and they’ll immediately think of Angry Birds, Instagram and Citymapper. What they won’t imagine are major engineering projects and complex machinery speaking to operators via the Internet of Things. Yet this is exactly where many of the most…