{"id":219087,"date":"2014-02-06T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"f3e647960196ef2ce5213dd030428681"},"modified":"2014-02-06T06:34:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T10:34:00","slug":"3d-visualisation-system-at-esas-concurrent-design-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=219087","title":{"rendered":"3D visualisation system at ESA&#8217;s Concurrent Design Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/02\/3d_visualisation_system_at_esa_s_concurrent_design_facility\/14264297-1-eng-GB\/3D_visualisation_system_at_ESA_s_Concurrent_Design_Facility_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAs ESA engineers work together to design a future space mission, it takes virtual shape before them in three dimensions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis 3D visualisation system is one of many state-of-the-art networking tools found in the Concurrent Design Facility (CDF), based at ESA\u2019s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe CDF\u2019s network of computers, multimedia devices and software tools allow experts from different engineering disciplines to work in close coordination, in the same place at the same time, to complete the most complex designs imaginable \u2013 in a matter of a few weeks rather than several months.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe CDF enables \u2018concurrent engineering\u2019 based on teamwork and focused on a common design model that evolves iteratively in real time as the different subsystem experts make their contributions. It has proved an influential approach over the CDF\u2019s 15 years of operations, helping to inspire new ways of working for Europe\u2019s hi-tech industries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe CDF enables \u2018concurrent engineering\u2019 based on teamwork and focused on a common design model that evolves iteratively in real time as the different subsystem experts make their contributions. It has proved an influential approach over the CDF\u2019s 15 years of operations, helping to inspire new ways of working for Europe\u2019s hi-tech industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/02\/3d_visualisation_system_at_esa_s_concurrent_design_facility\/14264297-1-eng-GB\/3D_visualisation_system_at_ESA_s_Concurrent_Design_Facility_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAs ESA engineers work together to design a future space mission, it takes virtual shape before them in three dimensions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis 3D visualisation system is one of many state-of-the-art networking tools found in the Concurrent Design Facility (CDF), based at ESA\u2019s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe CDF\u2019s network of computers, multimedia devices and software tools allow experts from different engineering disciplines to work in close coordination, in the same place at the same time, to complete the most complex designs imaginable \u2013 in a matter of a few weeks rather than several months.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe CDF enables \u2018concurrent engineering\u2019 based on teamwork and focused on a common design model that evolves iteratively in real time as the different subsystem experts make their contributions. It has proved an influential approach over the CDF\u2019s 15 years of operations, helping to inspire new ways of working for Europe\u2019s hi-tech industries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe CDF enables \u2018concurrent engineering\u2019 based on teamwork and focused on a common design model that evolves iteratively in real time as the different subsystem experts make their contributions. It has proved an influential approach over the CDF\u2019s 15 years of operations, helping to inspire new ways of working for Europe\u2019s hi-tech industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}