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Why Aircraft Equipment Calibration is Crucial

Summary: Calibrating your maintenance equipment is a critical process that minimizes accuracy flaws. 

In order to ensure that all aircraft maintenance equipment that you own runs efficiently, and safely, it’s essential that you and your team utilize various precision tools and inspection methods to ensure that each component conforms to the manufacturer’s specifications.

These tools must be periodically calibrated, as recommended by the operator, to safely handle each component independently. In various aerospace organizations, there has been a long-standing practice of permitting the use of workshop equipment that is not subjected to calibration if there are test data needs – including waveform monitoring, troubleshooting, or null indication measurement. In cases like these, it’s important to clearly identify the item as “not for calibrated testing” and be removed from the rotation of maintenance equipment.

Why You Should Calibrate 

Calibration ensures that the tools remain at peak accuracy, and that the inspection, measuring, and test equipment utilized for maintenance are performing adequately. The core purpose of calibration is to minimize measurement errors to acceptable levels. Acceptable levels of uncertainty are typically defined by the tolerance limits of the equipment’s parameters – which are normally established via the manufacturer. Through calibration, the equipment will fall within the defined accuracy levels and perform efficiently, which is especially important if you are working within the aerospace industry where accuracy is prioritized above all else.

Who Performs the Calibration? 

A calibration facility or laboratory is tasked with handling major calibration processes. Any person or organization that has specialized in handling the calibration process can typically run the establishment. Additionally, you can supply them with aircraft maintenance equipment from Start Pac for example, and depending on their controlled environment, you can expect each component to be properly analyzed, monitored, and ultimately calibrated to the manufacturer’s extent.

Documented calibration procedures must be used and documented evidence of the traceability of the standards utilized must be provided to you as well. This is especially important in the case of faulty work performed by the establishment. When it comes down to it, the most important aspect you must look out for when dealing with a third-party calibration lab is their standard of practice and how they perform when it comes to the equipment. Needless to say, you want your equipment at peak levels of efficiency, which is why picking and choosing the appropriate company will not only benefit you but your work as well.

 

When to outsource EDI

For a business that is part of a supply chain moving to an EDI system is fast becoming essential. A lot of companies implement EDI due to an upstream requirement from a customer or vendor. However, it is then that they understand the massive benefits to the organization and the vastly increased potential for leveraging EDI to grow. For organizations that have not yet thought about migrating to an EDI system, there are two choices: purchase EDI software for use in-house or outsourced to an EDI service bureau.

Outsource

The main benefits of using an outsourced EDI service bureau from an organization is cost. Outsourcing the use of the software will save you the upfront capital costs. While you could end up paying more in the long run, there is an inflection point at which you can decide to move the operation in-house.

Purchase

To justify the large capital expenditure for an in-house EDI implementation, you will need to consider to volume and type of activity. An organization with a lot of trading partners and a large volume of transactions will see financial benefits from purchasing EDI software. The process is costly because you will need to make the EDI software and your legacy systems work together.

Transition

It is difficult to determine an exact point that it makes sense to transition from a service bureau to an in-house system. However, as a general rule, if you have a 100 trading partners and thousands of transactions a week, it makes sense to purchase the software.

 

Dedicated Server 101

A trend is emerging where organizations are moving all IT infrastructure offsite. There are several options, and companies choose one or a mix of the following: cloud hosting, colocation, dedicated server hosting, and shared hosting. In this article, we take a look at the advantages of dedicated server hosting.

Performance

The biggest benefit is that the resources of the server are yours. There is no sharing. Even network bandwidth provisioning is for the server. One of the biggest issues with shared services is that you are at the mercy of other accounts on the same server. If you have more than one server the interconnect bandwidth is faster.

Security

A dedicated server gives you complete control of the security of your server. You can apply any changes, settings, or restrictions that a host will not allow on a shared platform. The downside is that you will be completely responsible for the security and safety of your systems. In this day and age when hackers are breaking into systems everywhere, keeping your systems secure is critical. A dedicated server gives you the level of control you will need.

Customization

Another positive from using a dedicated server is the level of customization. You can pick the hard drive combination you need and choose your desired RAM size. If your application needs a specific combination of resources, dedicated servers are the way to go.

Article by Rack Alley. They off the flexibility to customize your server hosting Los Angeles with network, storage and increased reliability with hardware redundancy and high availability options.

Why Colocation Is Right for You

By Rack Alley

Every company is different. Even your closest competitor has a lot of unique features. Still, it’s fair to say that most companies also have plenty in common too. For example, you all have to offer some kind of service or product in exchange for money. Many have a storefront of some sort, but all need to have a web presence these days. Not having a website would be nearly unimaginable, even if you do most of your business in person.

Rackalley2That being said, every company has different needs where their website is concerned. This is why most Los Angeles web hosting companies have several different packages to choose from: so they can meet as many demands as possible.

This is also why Los Angeles colocation makes so much sense. With colocation, you can basically use a hosting company’s infrastructure to build the perfect solution for your business’ unique needs. Amongst many other things, this means that you’ll have IT support around the clock to take your calls and respond to emergencies. There’s just no other cost-effective way to go about doing this in your own building. Plus, as time goes on and your needs change, your hosting solution can easily change with them, whatever they may be.

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While you have plenty of options for LA web hosting none will compare to Rack Alley. Server hosting in Los Angeles doesn’t get any better than them. Amongst other things, they can provide colocation, which is more affordable and custom-made.

Email Security

Past upheavals in countries including Iran and Burma have highlighted the difficulty of getting uncensored news into and out of countries with heavily controlled Internet access. But government researcher Sho Ho told a panel at the recent Defcon conference about research on a program that would make it extremely difficult for governments to block citizens from sending or receiving information.

email security

Feed Over Email is essentially a proxy-less RSS feed that can be delivered through Web based mail programs like Gmail. If both the client and mail server can send and receive encrypted email, foreign governments will have trouble using deep packet filtering to block certain keywords.

While research is still beginning and Ho said that funding is still needed, this could be a huge breakthrough in providing email security to bloggers, reformers and average citizens in countries with restrictive or draconian personal privacy restrictions.

What Makes a Good Icon Design? (Part II)

Last time we talked a little bit about the mistakes that people often make in icon design. Yes, even art can contain mistakes—particularly in the field of icon design, where the whole point of a professional icon is to enhance functionality and the user experience.

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This week, we’ll continue our discussion of good icon design by focusing on what makes a design effective. This time our tips come from PSDTUTS.com, a blog/website that offers Photoshop tutorials. In “7 Principles of Effective Design,” Sean Hodge touches on some of the same ideas as the Turbomilk article, but he also notes the importance of using consistent lighting and a limited perspective. Read more of Sean’s tips here. To view a professionally produced icon library, visit www.professional-icons.com.

What Makes a Good Icon Design? (Part I)

Icon design is deceptively simple. Professional web icons translate well because they’ve specifically been designed to do so while still complementing the user interface. An effective icon is, among other things, clear, sized appropriately, and consistent with other icons.

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Turbomilk, a Russian visual interface design company, has posted “10 Mistakes in Icon Design” on its eponymous blog. Number one is, of course, not enough differentiation between icons, even stock icons. Due to the small size, it’s easy to confuse similar icons for one another, which can frustrate the user’s experience. Other interesting observations include overcrowding icons with too many images, adding unnecessary perspective and shadows, and not accounting for national/cultural differences in objects (such as a mailbox).

Sites for sore eyes demand a dose of simplicity

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Their designers may think they’re masterpieces but many Web pages are actually as ugly as a bucketful of hammers.
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Net profit

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A few years ago, if you had even a slightly creative bent, and knew what HTML stood for, you were on the autobahn of Web design the cyber expressway to big bikkies and online cred. Read More “Net profit”