Visual Numerics completes consulting engagement for Boeing

 Boulder 31 Aug 99 Visual Numerics has successfully completed a 13-month consulting engagement for Long Beach, Calif.-based Boeing Commercial Aircraft Co. Visual Numerics' technical consultants worked with Boeing on an integrated flight test data processing system, of which Visual Numerics' PV-WAVE software is an integral component. The data processing application was used to analyze in-flight test data for both on ground systems and on board the test aircraft. Visual Numerics performed similar work for Sandia Laboratory and other companies.

PV-WAVE, Visual Numerics' flagship product, is an array-oriented, fourth-generation programming language used by engineers, scientists, researchers, business analysts and software developers to easily build and deploy visual data analysis applications. These applications let users visualize and manipulate complex or extremely large technical datasets to detect and display patterns, trends, anomalies and other vital information. The software includes hundreds of mathematical and statistical routines from the IMSL® Numerical Libraries as well as image processing, signal processing, mapping and data manipulation features.

"Having Visual Numerics build a solution is well worth the cost," said Don Boughey, the company's manager of Technical Services. "Our core competencies are in numerical analysis and data visualization -- it's what we do. Our consultants add expertise to the unique abilities of in-house staff. We provide the solid foundation, in both products and services, that lets the customer deploy the right solution to end-users."

In addition to the Boeing project, other consulting assignments recently completed by the Technical Services Group include:

  • Sandia National Laboratory -- Defined, developed and deployed a client/server, Web-based application to monitor nuclear stockpiles;

  • Oil Product and Research Company -- Developed a client/server application that lets users anywhere in the world examine oil well data from a Web browser on the company's secure intranet;

  • Aluminum Production Company -- Developed a desktop quality control application that used X-Y plots, image processing and analysis to ensure final product met specifications;

  • Satellite Company -- Implemented a desktop solution for a satellite telemetry ground station that allowed for multiple graphics windows, each containing multiple X-Y strip charts;

  • Engine Company -- Partnered with company developers to enhance the quality and functionality of an in-house graphical and analytical application;

  • Investment Institution -- Provided numerical and open-systems expertise to implement a financial analysis and predictive model application.

 

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