This section highlights some of our clients and project engagements to provide a profile of our service capabilities. For more information about these projects please contact us at info@asg1.com.
ASG has provided technology management and information systems development services to SaluGenecists Inc., a company focused on the development and marketing of an artificial intelligence-based, smart tool that provides uniquely individualized health advice. In 2002, ASG was invited to participate in the development of a comprehensive product strategy for SaluGenecists health advice system. ASG provided the following services to SaluGenecists.
- Provided technology management consulting services including the development of a project methodology, specific intellectual property and system development process defintions all of which supported a patent application.
- Authored a product development plan that included organizational, process methodology and product targets for a startup-up health care company.
- Developed an online project management information system and populated system with requirements (UI, architecture, capabilities & validation) & action items for the product team.
- Developed two new user interfaces for SaluGenecists product to support consumer focus group evaluations.
ASG's participation in SaluGenecists early product development phase led to a contract award with Cancer Treatment Center of America (CTCA). ASG, helped with project delivery culminating in SaluGenecist's first commercial deployment of their tool for CTCA in late 2003.
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ASG has provided avionics analysis services, technology management and information systems development services to The Boeing Company for a period of 6 years. In 1996, ASG was invited to participate on the Airplane Creation Process Strategy (ACPS) design team. The objective of this cross-functional team was to identify master processes that would dramatically reduce the cost and time to develop airplanes. ASG provided strategy and analysis services towards the creation of a new airplane creation process. ASG developed many prototype systems including
- a web based interface control document (ICD) system
- a web based digital library system that reduced the enormous amount of tacit information among program participants
- technology management approaches that improved the earned value of technology investments made by The Boeing Company and its partners
In 1997, ASG was invited to automate a complex software release process pertaining to the airplane checklist system on the 777 series aircraft. The existing process had become error prone and could not be scaled with additional labor. ASG developed a data model and cataloged all the associated micro processes. With this information, we designed a system that integrated multiple databases, automated many of the manual processes and migrated all user interfaces to the Boeing intranet. Three separate applications for external users, internal users and administrative users was developed. In 2001, ASG was invited to upgrade the ECLIPS system to provide updated technology and new features. The successful deployment of ECLIPS (ECL information processing system) resulted in the following benefits to the Boeing company.
- It allowed a 3-person team to become a 1.5-person team to manage ECL processes
- It allowed Boeing to scale a process that was previously not scalable
- It enabled higher quality in the service and information products delivered by this team
- It saved The Boeing Company almost 50% of the cost of these processes or approximately $3.2M over a 10-year period
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ASG has been supporting Trimble Navigation with avionics services since 1998 when it was first tasked to perform a safety analysis on the TA-12 GPS receiver. The analysis involved the following.
- The analysis identified all modes of failure within the GPSSU LRU, their causes, effects on performance and means of detection (failure modes and effects analysis or FMEA)
- The analysis presented the testability concept (BITE) and coverage, and possible safety issues.
- The BITE (built in test equipment) effectiveness evaluation evaluated the extent to which hardware failures can be detected and announced after a self-test or during continuous operation
- The fault isolation analysis showed how GPSSU hardware failures could be and isolated to the GPSSU LRU
Our analysis supported the successful certification and deployment of the TA-12 GPSSU on a LearJet aircraft platform.
In 2001, ASG was invited to provide technical expertise to the Trimble TA-12S design team on the proper design techniques and approaches necessary to successfully pass the FMEA/BIT/MTBF requirements for the design. ASG, provided a design assessment of the TA-12S GPSSU LRU and presented necessary design changes as well as design opportunities that would most effectively address the program objectives. In addition, ASG conducted a seminar for Trimble engineers on system safety analysis methods and its context to the certification process (FAA interests) and maintainability processes (airline operator interests).
In 2002, ASG was hired by Trimble to support safety analysis on the TA-12S and Force 5S programs. The elements of this analysis are the same as what was performed on the TA-12 GPS receiver described above.
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ASG was hired by ELDEC a division of Crane Aerospace in 1997 to provide information systems development services. ASG was tasked to develop tools for requirements traceability which was required by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) on the MD-10 Ground Proximity Warning system development program. ELDEC required the following.
- Satisfy customer required traceability by automatically tracking customer requirements through ELDEC documents via a delivered report
- Reduce the development time, cost and effort of managing program documentation by generating regular defect reports to identify holes in requirements coverage
- Be able to operate on all current documentation formats to generate verification matrices for monitoring the ongoing status of requirements implementation and verification
ASG reviewed the problem and designed a three component system that addressed the need to create traceability paths through the document set and then provide various customized reports on these paths.
- The first component was database to store all trace tags, defect rules and linkage rules associated with the traceability process
- The second component was a document parser that extracted the necessary tags that linked all documents and stored these tags to the database
- The last component was the interface that allowed the user to run the parser, run various trace processes, view output reports and export data to Excel spreadsheets
The Verification Trace Tool developed by ASG allowed ELDEC to successfully provide a linked document set to McDonnell Douglas and ultimately receive certification on the Ground Proximity Warning system.
In 1998, ASG was tasked to develop additional functionality including universal configurability into the Verification Trace Tool to allow ELDEC to perform traceability processes on document sets on any of their programs.
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Affinity Publishing hired ASG in 1998 to provide information systems development services. ASG was tasked to develop a database driven catalog site. Affinity Publishing had the following top level requirements.
- The system shall be a web based system hosted and administrated remotely
- The system shall allow administrators to publish multiple catalogs
- The system shall allow administrators to publish customized subscription forms
- The system shall provide for up to ten different display template files that can be selected by the administrator when designing the catalog
- The system shall allow record level administration of the database via a secured web site
- The system shall provide the user with a functional and intuitive web site that allows easy search of the
products in the catalog
ASG reviewed the problem and provided the following services.
- ASG developed and coordinated a budget for development and operations and then selected the appropriate host and technologies for the catalog system
- ASG developed the database and interactive portions of the web site
- ASG supported migration of initial data (product descriptions and images) and user training of the system
The original catalog system was deployed in early 1999 for the Microsoft WinCE resource guide. Follow-on catalogs included Hewlett Packard, Palm and HandSpring resource guides. Private database administrative applications were also deployed for each system.
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In 2000, the founder of Aooga contacted the founder of ASG for some help on a new start-up company that aims to dramatically improve the post-sales relationship between the seller and the buyer.
The work requirement was simple; support the development of a technology company from the ground up including all business and technology planning. The following technology management and information systems development services were provided.
- Development and implementation of the Aooga technology plan
- Technology selection including web and database applications and host services
- Design and development of all database and web functions including, product searches, account management, user communications, metrics and site navigation
The result of the combined effort of Aooga founders and ASG was the development and launch of the Aooga web site. This site continues to be developed and pitched to investors with the goal of creating partnerships with major manufacturers and retailers to support the Aooga business model.
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