The award celebrates ADI’s exceptional spirit of partnership, the successful establishment of JetZero’s Systems Integration Labs (SIL), and the company’s seamless on-site and remote technical support throughout the program’s development milestones. ADI’s dedication to performance, agility, and collaboration has helped JetZero meet critical objectives on schedule and within budget, while navigating one of the most ambitious aircraft development programs in modern aviation.

“ADI has been more than a supplier to JetZero; they’ve been a real partner in our success,” said Lisa Ousley, JetZero’s head of Supply Chain. “ADI has consistently exceeded our expectations. Their commitment to innovation and seamless support embodies the spirit of partnership that defines JetZero’s supplier ecosystem. We’re proud to recognize ADI as our first-ever Supplier of the Year and look forward to continued success together.”

JetZero recognized ADI’s exceptional performance to contracts, its proactive technical problem-solving, and its flexible commercial approach during critical development phases.

“JetZero has a very impressive supplier base and we are deeply honored to be acknowledged. The most valuable aviation innovation demands an agile and adaptable approach to technology partnership and we strive to exceed expectations in this regard,” said Scott James, ADI President & CEO.

The recognition follows a year of significant progress on the Z4 all-wing demonstrator, including major milestones achieved at JetZero’s Flying Qualities Lab (FQL) and Integration Test Facility (ITF), both established and operated using ADI’s ADEPT™ digital engineering platform. ADI’s collaboration enables real-time integration and testing across globally distributed teams, combining remote and physical environments to accelerate development and reduce program risk.

“Our partnership with JetZero reflects ADI’s commitment to helping innovative OEMs solve for time through connected lab environments, advanced simulation, and agile support models,” added James. “We’re proud to play a role in helping JetZero realize its vision for next-generation aviation.”

JetZero’s Flying Qualities Lab (FQL) and Integration Test Facility (ITF) are operated using ADI’s ADEPT™ digital engineering platform. Image courtesy of JetZero.

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JetZero’s Flying Qualities Lab (FQL) has achieved major milestones with the successful integration of pilot controls, including Safran throttle, rudder pedals, flap and speed brake handles; Woodward trim panel; and BAE Systems active control sidesticks. JetZero’s FQL is an advanced test and evaluation platform where pilots and engineers can rapidly develop the flight control laws (CLAW), connected to a physics-based real-time simulation of the full all-wing airplane. As laws are developed in the FQL, they are then transferred to the ITF for the next step in testing.

JetZero’s Integration Test Facility (ITF) lab has also achieved major milestones with the successful integration of the Thales Flight Control Computers (FCC) hardware and software to the pilot controls, including BAE Systems active control sidesticks, enabling pilot-in-the-loop testing of the flight control system. This represents a critical set of milestones allowing for Z4 interoperability testing of the airplane equipment in a simulated flight environment to proceed, prior to installation in the full-scale demonstrator airplane. JetZero’s ITF is an advanced test and evaluation platform where nearly all of the airplane electrical and electronic systems are installed and taken through exhaustive interoperability and performance testing in a simulated flight environment.

One of JetZero’s missions is “solving for time.” Through JetZero’s digital engineering and lab strategy, they aim to accelerate development of a Part 25-Transport Category Airplane. JetZero team members have extensive backgrounds at major manufacturers and system suppliers and understand the complexities. The JetZero demonstrator airplane uses proven, qualified components already flying on Part 25 airplanes to reduce risk. The main challenge isn’t individual components, it’s integration. That’s where labs are essential, preventing costly surprises and significantly reducing risk. 

JetZero is using a three-lab approach to decouple systems integration from airframe construction, running both in parallel. This accelerates development by building the airplane while ensuring systems are ready when the airframe is complete. The three labs include: a Flying Qualities Lab, an Integration Test Facility, and an Iron Bird.

The Air Force has been very supportive and shares the urgency around solving for time. They recognize the barrier of today’s longer development schedules and are pushing to restore the innovation and speed that once defined aerospace, replacing manual, federated processes and tools that slow progress with a digital thread.

“Many of us entered this field with excitement about building incredible aircraft, but bureaucracy and antiquated tools can dampen that spirit,” said Bethany Davis, Head of Airplane Systems and Labs at JetZero. “That’s why the Air Force emphasizes ‘buying back time’ and strongly supports our digital tools, lab-driven rapid prototyping approach. It’s a strategic move to accelerate critical aerospace capabilities.”

The partnership between ADI and JetZero came as a result of ADI’s experience developing and deploying industry’s top aerospace and defense digital twin platform and a proven track record accelerating the airplane development journey through flight test and type certification.

“Traditional aerospace development required experts in one location,” said Scott James, ADI’s president and CEO. “The use of remotely accessible labs, enabled by our ADEPT edge computing platform, changes the calculus. A test engineer in Florida can pilot the simulation-based flight test, while a control systems expert in Montreal and a hydraulics specialist in Michigan work on the same test in real-time, each seeing the data and analytics they need. This real-time collaboration, regardless of location, brings specialized insights together more efficiently than ever.”

Remote testing helps solve one of the biggest challenges for a commercial OEM: finding and keeping specialized talent. Team members come in for physical tests but can work from anywhere once remote environments are ready. This has helped JetZero build a global operation, with team members across the U.S. and around the world. JetZero’s digital setup gives them access to top talent, no matter where they are, and top talent is what’s required to achieve dramatic innovation in the aviation world.

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“The proposed testbed represents a unique opportunity to push the boundaries of standard industrial manufacturing practices,” said Max Toothman, a Sr. AI Engineer at ADI and the principal investigator for the project. “This collaborative effort will combine a number of cutting-edge technologies into an interoperable system that can be used to test control and analysis methods from recent Industry 4.0 research.”

The vision for the Integrated OPA Testbed involves integrating two existing MxD testbeds, the Digital Twin Testbed for Process Manufacturing from Siemens and the Open Architecture Digital Twin Testbed, into a unified system that combines their individual strengths. Detailing compliance with the Open Process Automation Standard (O-PAS), this new testbed will utilize multiple control nodes to connect real-time edge computing capabilities, through ADI’s ADEPT platform, with state-of-the-art industrial control software, through Siemens’s SIMATIC PCS Neo platform. Local and cloud-hosted applications will allow researchers to deploy adaptive and extensible digital twins. With this digital twin technology, machine learning and artificial intelligence can be leveraged to enable process monitoring, anomaly detection, and predictive maintenance, among other capabilities.

ADEPT Plug-and-Play Industrial Computing and Connectivity Software Platform

ADEPT is an industrial edge computing and connectivity software platform built around the concept of time-deterministic “data frameworks” executing on Linux servers and operating as a single, coherent distributed resource controlled and managed via intuitive, drag-and-drop desktop tools. ADEPT is used in the largest, most demanding industrial computing and connectivity applications across the global aerospace and defense industry, but also scales down to work with low-cost computing hardware and open-source real-time Linux. The open architecture nature of ADEPT allows users to apply a modular open systems approach (MOSA) to real-time computing deployments and leverage best-in-class COTS and open-source technologies. ADEPT dramatically reduces the cost and time to deploy and operate industrial IoT and open process automation capability, providing comprehensive out-of-the-box capability built on a trusted technology platform. ADI’s ADEPT software platform can support advanced open real-time and virtual computing applications that require NIST 800-171 and CIS Security Level 2 compliance.

Siemens PCS neo

SIMATIC PCS neo is a state-of-the-art process control system designed to manage and automate industrial processes. This innovative system is designed to meet the evolving needs of the process industry, offering unparalleled flexibility, efficiency, and scalability. Unlike traditional systems, PCS neo is entirely web-based, allowing users to access and operate the system from any location using mobile devices or desktop computers. This feature ensures continuous and efficient operations, regardless of where team members are located. A key feature of SIMATIC PCS neo is its full support for the Module Type Package (MTP) standard, which allows for easier integration of plant modules, regardless of the manufacturer. This openness significantly reduces engineering efforts and enhances operational efficiency. Thus, from smaller systems to very large systems, SIMATIC PCS neo is suitable for industrial plants of all sizes.

Open Automation

The long-held practice of customizing process control using a single technology platform provided considerable benefits in previous decades. However, recent technology advances and expectations of present-day digital workers and consumers demand a shift to an open automation approach that allows hardware and software from multiple vendors to interoperate as a single, cohesive system. Seamless, intuitive incorporation of varied solutions into a common ecosystem addresses a substantial roadblock to implementing continuous improvement in process manufacturing. No longer locked into a single control platform, manufacturers will enjoy greater choice and be able to implement stepwise improvements continuously throughout the life of manufacturing assets and management systems. Open automation also benefits the broader manufacturing industry by promoting innovation and promoting competition.

Digital Twins

Digital twins are purpose-driven, dynamic, digital replicas of physical assets, processes, or products. While the benefits of digital twins are not yet fully realized in industry, research into digital twin technology is quickly developing and expanding in breadth and reach. Digital twins can be used in real time, using machine and process data to detect anomalies and predict failures before they occur. They can also be used in a virtual environment to test “what if” scenarios (without the risk of harm to people or damage to the facility) and generate insights that greatly improve quality, efficiency, and safety. When deployed on a wide scale, digital twins can provide organizations with the ability to quickly evaluate operations relative to market conditions and test assumptions for innovating and improving capabilities to improve their market position in the competitive global environment.

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Scott James, President & CEO of ADI, remarked, “We are proud to have partnered with NOAA on this transformative project. Successfully navigating the complexities of legacy systems to deliver a robust and secure solution underscores our commitment to advancing the state of industrial computing and connectivity. This project sets a new benchmark for cybersecurity and operational longevity in mission-critical satellite systems.”

ADI has successfully reverse-engineered a highly-complex real-time satellite simulation platform comprising millions of lines of legacy code running on antiquated computing platforms and completed the subsequent software system integration into ADI’s state-of-the-art ADEPT Framework. This monumental task ensures the continued functionality and relevance of NOAA’s satellite emulator systems, which remain crucial to the operation of in-orbit satellites. The success of this project provides a clear path forward for the continued support of NOAA satellite programs and demonstrates a proven approach to the many other users of legacy satellite emulators that can benefit similarly. By extending the serviceable life of these systems, NOAA can continue to rely on its existing infrastructure while also embracing modern technology advancements.

The project has achieved, and now allows the ability to maintain, rigorous cybersecurity compliance. This ensures that NOAA’s satellite system emulators are protected against emerging cyber threats, providing a secure operational environment moving forward. In alignment with the Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA) standard, the project implemented an open architecture framework. This enhances interoperability and flexibility, allowing the potential to simplify any future integration and upgrade efforts.

By leveraging new hardware and the ADEPT industrial computing platform, ADI has fortified NOAA’s satellite emulator systems with state-of-the-art technology. This collaboration not only modernizes these critical assets but also provides NOAA with a trusted partner for ongoing support and maintenance throughout the service lifetime of the satellite systems and beyond.

About the ADEPT Plug-and-Play Industrial Computing and Connectivity Software Platform

ADEPT is an industrial computing and connectivity software platform built around the concept of time-deterministic “data frameworks” executing on industrial real-time Linux servers and operating as a single, coherent distributed resource controlled and managed via intuitive, drag-and-drop desktop tools.  ADEPT is used in the largest, most demanding industrial computing and connectivity applications across the global aerospace and defense industry, but also scales down to work with low-cost computing hardware and open-source real-time Linux. The open architecture nature of ADEPT allows users to leverage best-in-class COTS and open-source technologies in a common, project-based environment.  ADEPT dramatically reduces the cost and time to deploy and operate industrial open process automation capability, providing comprehensive out-of-the-box capability built on a trusted technology platform.

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Last November, ADI proudly introduced its new brand and website, www.adi.com, showcasing a renewed focus on delivering best-in-class industrial computing solutions. The website prominently features ADI’s “three squares” logo, with each square symbolizing a core element of ADI’s strategy:

1. The ADEPT software, which provides real-time edge computing with unmatched scalability and efficiency
2. A dynamic ADEPT design and build team
3. A Digital Engineering methodology to accelerate customer innovation

ADI’s new tagline, “Driving Innovation and Connecting our Digital World,” encapsulates their mission to work closely with customers in designing and deploying innovative testbeds and digital engineering enterprise solutions. The ADEPT edge computing software is instrumental in bridging simulation, artificial intelligence (AI), human inputs, control algorithms, and more with the real world.

Building on this foundation, ADI has launched the next phase of their website: a brand-new Client Portal (connect.adi.com). Accessible via the upper right corner of the ADI homepage, this secure portal houses essential resources for ADI clients, including ADEPT software downloads, industry articles, whitepapers, and publications. This portal underscores ADI’s commitment to advancing NIST and CIS security standards, ensuring a cyber-secure environment for all clients.

ADI helps industry leaders drive innovation for their mission-critical industrial edge computing solutions. As your partner in digital engineering and manufacturing, we are committed to connecting and enhancing our digital world.

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Applied Dynamics International, Inc. (ADI) today announced it has signed a teaming agreement to collaborate with Boom Supersonic, the company building Overture, the world’s fastest airliner optimized to run on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

“ADI is proud to be partnering with Boom Supersonic on its efforts to make the world dramatically more accessible through sustainable supersonic flight,” said Scott James, ADI’s President & CEO. “Overture will transform how we experience the world and connect with each other, and we are excited to play a role in its development.”

Under the agreement, ADI will design a highly-automated digital engineering and test enterprise for Boom to leverage throughout Overture’s design and development. Boom will also adopt ADI’s ADEPT edge computing software that allows engineers to design and deploy a virtual, physical, and simulation model of Overture.

ADI’s best-in-industry aircraft Digital Twin platform can be run on an engineer’s laptop for interactive simulated flight test, or for high-volume automated batch testing. Key functions of the aircraft are assessed then later aircraft subsystem supplier simulations and software-in-the-loop models are integrated for virtual aircraft integration and verification testing.

“At Boom, we leverage advanced computational tools to bring more efficiency and precision to Overture’s design and development,” said Troy Follak, Boom’s Chief Technology Officer. “ADI’s simulation software is integral to enabling our engineers, suppliers, test pilots, and flight test crew to understand how Overture and its systems will perform well before the aircraft takes to the skies.”

As aircraft subsystems are built by Boom’s suppliers, real flight-worthy equipment gets connected to the virtual Overture aircraft for hardware-in-the-loop testing. ADI’s simulation software will then allow engineers and test pilots to virtually fly Overture before conducting a physical flight test, thus reducing risk and development costs. ADI’s ADEPT software is the only commercial Digital Twin platform that has been used to receive FAA flight credit for virtual flights – making the company an ideal partner in the development of the Overture program.

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Ann Arbor, MI, November 10, 2023 (Newswire.com) – In 1957, Applied Dynamics International was founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and began a decades-long adventure, developing computing and simulation technology and driving innovation through many of the aerospace and defense industry’s most notable advancements. Through this journey, ADI amassed a wealth of real-time and simulation computing software technology. In 2008, ADI began developing the ADEPT industrial edge computing software platform. In 2018, ADEPT was released to market and quickly adopted within the aerospace and defense industry.

Today ADI is proud to unveil the new ADI brand and www.adi.com website.

ADI helps industry leaders drive innovation for their mission-critical industrial solutions and offers innovative industrial edge computing solutions for Digital Engineering, Digital Twin, and Open Process Automation applications. ADI works with industry professionals and decision-makers involved in and responsible for digital strategy and Industry 4.0.

ADI’s new tagline “Driving Innovation and Connecting our Digital World” speaks to how they work with customers to design and deploy innovation testbeds and digital engineering enterprise solutions and speaks to how the ADEPT edge computing software is used to connect simulation, artificial intelligence (AI), humans, control algorithms, and more to the real world.

Central to the new ADI brand is the new ADI “three squares” logo, with each of the blue, green, and purple squares representing one of the three elements of ADI’s strategy for delivering best-in-breed industrial computing solutions for their customers:

1. The ADEPT software, which provides real-time edge computing with unmatched scalability and efficiency
2. A dynamic ADEPT design and build team
3. A Digital Engineering methodology to accelerate customer innovation

Since releasing ADEPT in 2018, ADI has seen its distributed real-time and virtual computing software platform be used in ways they never imagined, including surprising demand for ADEPT in manufacturing Digital Twin and AI-Connected Factory applications. Through this period, the language used to describe the application of Digital Engineering and model-based systems engineering methods has changed dramatically, and the language around Industrial Internet-of-Things only recently emerged. Accordingly, ADI’s new brand and messaging presents the latest look at how industry is using edge computing to transform our world.

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SMART 4.0 is an industry-university collaboration research and innovation lab, created by Prof. Kira Barton and Prof. Dawn Tilbury at the University of Michigan’s new Department of Robotics. The mission of SMART 4.0 is to advance manufacturing intelligence technology, including Digital Twin, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Open Process Automation (OPA), and human-robot collaboration, by bringing industry and university research together, building a collaborative plug-and-play ecosystem for rapidly advancing technology, and building a platform to enable workforce development for Industry 4.0, and Manufacturing 4.0, and beyond.

ADI is a digital engineering and industrial digital transformation solutions company that helps customers drive innovation within their organization using innovation testbeds, digital engineering methodologies, and real-time edge computing. The SMART 4.0 team tapped ADI to collaborate on the design and integration of their innovation lab to create a modular, open-architecture testbed, that offers a plug-and-play ecosystem for rapidly advancing technology. Furthermore, SMART 4.0 selected ADI’s ADEPT edge computing and IoT connectivity software platform to provide the distributed computing and data backbone, allowing flexible plug-and-play with industrial Ethernet, connected with digital twin algorithms, and executing at the edge.

During the Phase 1 effort, a real-time “Connected Factory” was established to mechanically and electrically integrate collaborative robots, CNC machines, and 3D printers into the representative manufacturing system architecture. An Open Process Automation (OPA) computing and connectivity backbone was implemented, using ADI’s ADEPT edge computing software platform, to connect the following new and legacy equipment:

‍ – Kuka KMR mobile robot
‍ – Kawasaki DuAro dual-arm robot
‍ – Toyota HSR mobile collaborative robots
‍ – Triton CNCs
‍ – Ultimaker3 and Ultimaker5 3D printers

Early phase 1 efforts included establishing an industrial Ethernet communications backbone to connect multiple and diverse equipment platforms with varying communication protocols. The SMART 4.0 computing backbone then also added the ability to run machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms and physics-based simulation models in real-time, using off-the-shelf edge computing servers, with plug-and-play connectivity between machines and algorithms. With easy access to all data within the SMART 4.0 testbed, graphic visualization panels were added, bringing real-time data dashboards, and digital twin health-monitoring indicators.

Starting with a fully-functional manufacturing intelligence testbed, phase 2 will expand the lab capabilities and then demonstrate how this facility can be used to rapidly advance manufacturing technology. New lab capabilities include integration of the open-source Robot Operating System (ROS) software platform, providing hardware abstraction, configuration databasing, communications, and more. In addition, the SMART 4.0 lab will also see the addition of multiple cameras to provide optical sensing to, amongst other things, advance technology in robot-to-robot, human-to-robot, and robot-to-legacy-machine collaboration.

The SMART 4.0 testbed is a state-of-the-art research testbed that incorporates a number of the latest technologies for the purpose of developing and researching digital twins for a manufacturing system. Those requirements include additive and subtractive manufacturing in one integrated testbed, flexibility and reconfigurability, ability to transition between centralized and distributed system control, wireless communication for cameras and mobile robots, robot-to-robot part transfer, human-to-robot direct interaction, integrated methods for enhanced cybersecurity, platform flexibility to accommodate third party software, and VR modeling of the complete testbed.

The UofM SMART 4.0 testbed is positioned to advance smart manufacturing research through the unique use of digital twins and a flexible open architecture, for the purpose of decision-making in critical matters such as virtual commissioning, system reconfiguration, and predictive maintenance.

About the ADEPT Plug-and-Play Industrial Computing and Connectivity Software Platform

ADEPT is an industrial computing and connectivity software platform built around the concept of time-deterministic “data frameworks” executing on industrial real-time Linux servers and operating as a single, coherent distributed resource controlled and managed via intuitive, drag-and-drop desktop tools.  ADEPT is used in the largest, most demanding industrial computing and connectivity applications across the global aerospace and defense industry, but also scales down to work with low-cost computing hardware and open-source real-time Linux. The open architecture nature of ADEPT allows users to leverage best-in-class COTS and open-source technologies in a common, project-based environment.  ADEPT dramatically reduces the cost and time to deploy and operate industrial open process automation capability, providing comprehensive out-of-the-box capability built on a trusted technology platform.

ADI’s ADEPT software platform can support advanced open real-time and virtual computing applications that require NIST 800-171 and CIS Security Level 2 compliance.

About Applied Dynamics

Applied Dynamics is a digital engineering and industrial digital transformation solutions company. We have been pushing the limits of simulation and real-time systems for over 60 years. Applied Dynamics flagship product, ADEPT, is the most advanced real-time, industrial Internet of Things (IoT) software platform available, providing an agile, open architecture, feature-rich environment for the complete product lifecycle from development through integration, verification, validation, certification, deployment, and sustainment. ADEPT embraces an open architecture and allows its users to leverage best-in-class COTS components. The ADEPT user base includes 14 of the global top 35 A&D companies and extends into marine, power systems, oil & gas, and the automotive industry.

About the SMARTLab located at the Ford Robotics Building led by Profs. Kira Barton and Dawn Tilbury

A new industrial system-level manufacturing testbed has been launched within the Manufacturing Robotics SMARTLab in the new Ford Robotics Building at the University of Michigan. This cyber-physical manufacturing systems testbed, called SMART 4.0, incorporates manufacturing processes and automated material handling, to enable flexibility and reconfigurability. The state-of-the-art control system in the testbed connects the different hardware elements and enables human interactions. The SMART 4.0 testbed incorporates a number of the latest technologies for the purpose of developing and researching intelligent solutions, such as digital twins, for a manufacturing system. Those requirements include additive and subtractive manufacturing in one integrated testbed, flexibility and reconfigurability, ability to transition between centralized and distributed system control, wireless communication for cameras and mobile robots, robot-to-robot part transfer, human-to-robot direct interaction, integrated methods for enhanced cybersecurity, platform flexibility to accommodate 3rd party software, and VR modeling of the complete testbed. SMART 4.0 uses the ADEPT framework with real time data collection capability. ADEPT’s open architecture, data-centric, and highly extensible real-time Linux computing paradigm provides a versatile and dynamic platform for SMART 4.0.

To learn more about how ADI and the ADEPT platform can help your team, visit www.adi.com or send an email to adinfo@adi.com.

Contact:
Applied Dynamics International
3800 Stone School Rd
Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
Email: press@adi.com

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ADI is proud to announce its win of a Manufacturing Leadership Award from the Manufacturing Leadership Council. ADI, in collaboration with the Digital Manufacturing Institute (MxD), The Dow Chemical Company, and the University of Michigan’s Barton Research Group was recognized in the Collaborative Ecosystems category for its project, Digital Twins for Process Manufacturing: Open Architecture Industrial IoT Framework.

This project began when MxD, the Nation’s Digital Manufacturing Institute, worked with their key member-manufacturers and identified a critical technology gap preventing the widespread adoption of Industrial IoT and Digital Twin capability. Industrial IoT and Digital Twin technology enable you to access your manufacturing data in real-time to reduce downtime and energy consumption, improve safety and efficiency, and more.

There are many impressive Industrial IoT software platforms on the market, offered by major equipment and software suppliers. However, a common weakness found across the vast majority of these Industrial IoT software solutions is at the edge, where there is a need for plug-and-play connectivity to equipment and solutions from multiple vendors, and a need for the capability to execute real-time apps on-premises and in the cloud. MxD launched a competitive Request for Proposals to fill that gap. ADI bid to demonstrate how the ADEPT software could meet this critical technology demand, and won the contract in partnership with the University of Michigan.

This collaborative demonstrator project brought together large-scale industry need, with highly-advanced university technology, and a software platform that connects and enables a complete Industrial IoT solution. The project was an overwhelming success and as a result was recognized by the Manufacturing Leadership Council, at their annual awards gala, on June 29th, 2022.

ADI’s ADEPT software is proving itself as a powerful Industrial IoT Edge solution for real-time plug-and-play connectivity and digital twin capability for manufacturing intelligence. For many customers, ADEPT is only a piece of their complete Industrial IoT platform solution, but a critical piece.

The chemical manufacturing market has tremendous opportunity for ROI on Industrial IoT and Digital Twin investments. ADI is now tackling the same problems in the discrete manufacturing world, working with major automotive manufacturers, and manufacturing equipment suppliers to deliver the same, critical, real-time data connectivity and digital twin computing.

You can learn more about this award-winning Industrial IoT project at www.adi.com/mxd.

Next steps for this technology and team include further collaboration with the University of Michigan, Manufacturing Robotics SMARTLab within the newly formed Robotics Department. ADI, the SmartLab, and our manufacturer-partners are working to create a future where a marketplace of manufacturing intelligence functions and apps can be securely connected to the factory, opening up competition, and enabling innovation to move at tremendous speed.

About the ADEPT Plug-and-Play Industrial Computing and Connectivity Software Platform

ADEPT is an industrial computing and connectivity software platform built around the concept of time-deterministic “data frameworks” executing on industrial real-time Linux servers and operating as a single, coherent distributed resource controlled and managed via intuitive, drag-and-drop desktop tools.  ADEPT is used in the largest, most demanding industrial computing and connectivity applications across the global aerospace and defense industry, but also scales down to work with low-cost computing hardware and open-source real-time Linux. The open architecture nature of ADEPT allows users to leverage best-in-class COTS and open-source technologies in a common, project-based environment.  ADEPT dramatically reduces the cost and time to deploy and operate industrial open process automation capability, providing comprehensive out-of-the-box capability built on a trusted technology platform.

ADI’s ADEPT software platform can support advanced open real-time and virtual computing applications that require NIST 800-171 and CIS Security Level 2 compliance.

About Applied Dynamics

Applied Dynamics is a digital engineering and industrial digital transformation solutions company. We have been pushing the limits of simulation and real-time systems for over 60 years. Applied Dynamics flagship product, ADEPT, is the most advanced real-time, industrial Internet of Things (IoT) software platform available, providing an agile, open architecture, feature-rich environment for the complete product lifecycle from development through integration, verification, validation, certification, deployment, and sustainment. ADEPT embraces an open architecture and allows its users to leverage best-in-class COTS components. The ADEPT user base includes 14 of the global top 35 A&D companies and extends into marine, power systems, oil & gas, and the automotive industry.

About MxD

MxD, the nation’s Digital Manufacturing Institute and the National Center for Cybersecurity in Manufacturing, is where innovative manufacturers go to forge their futures. In partnership with the Department of Defense, MxD equips U.S. factories with the digital tools, cybersecurity, and workforce expertise they need to begin building every part better than the last. As a result, our approximately 300 partners increase their productivity, win more business, and strengthen U.S. manufacturing. Learn more at mxdusa.org, and contact us about projects at projects@mxdusa.org.

About the SMARTLab located at the Ford Robotics Building led by Profs. Kira Barton and Dawn Tilbury

A new industrial system-level manufacturing testbed has been launched within the Manufacturing Robotics SMARTLab in the new Ford Robotics Building at the University of Michigan. This cyber-physical manufacturing systems testbed, called SMART 4.0, incorporates manufacturing processes and automated material handling, to enable flexibility and reconfigurability. The state-of-the-art control system in the testbed connects the different hardware elements and enables human interactions. The SMART 4.0 testbed incorporates a number of the latest technologies for the purpose of developing and researching intelligent solutions, such as digital twins, for a manufacturing system. Those requirements include additive and subtractive manufacturing in one integrated testbed, flexibility and reconfigurability, ability to transition between centralized and distributed system control, wireless communication for cameras and mobile robots, robot-to-robot part transfer, human-to-robot direct interaction, integrated methods for enhanced cybersecurity, platform flexibility to accommodate 3rd party software, and VR modeling of the complete testbed. SMART 4.0 uses the ADEPT framework with real time data collection capability. ADEPT’s open architecture, data-centric, and highly extensible real-time Linux computing paradigm provides a versatile and dynamic platform for SMART 4.0.

To learn more about how ADI and the ADEPT platform can help your team, visit www.adi.com or send an email to adinfo@adi.com.

Contact:
Applied Dynamics International
3800 Stone School Rd
Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
Email: press@adi.com

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After announcing a major cybersecurity contract win from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), Applied Dynamics International (ADI), a global leader in industrial computing and connectivity, headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI, on Monday November 1, 2021, held a discussion and thought leadership roundtable focused on cybersecurity, digital engineering and digital transformation in Michigan.

PRESS RELEASE: Digital Engineering and Cybersecurity Innovation in Michigan

Applied Dynamics hosts local and global thought leaders for presentations and a roundtable discussion on cybersecurity, digital engineering and digital transformation in Michigan

November 12, 2021. Ann Arbor, Michigan.

After announcing a major cybersecurity contract win from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), Applied Dynamics International (ADI), a global leader in industrial computing and connectivity, headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI, on Monday November 1, 2021, held a discussion and thought leadership roundtable focused on cybersecurity, digital engineering and digital transformation in Michigan.

To kick off the event, ADI’s President & CEO, Scott James, discussed the importance of cybersecurity, the effect a security breach can have on businesses, and how technology jobs have and will affect the economy in the state of Michigan.

“Strong cybersecurity is vital for all businesses these days, but especially for ones like ours that deliver mission critical infrastructure. As a leader in this space, we see it as our duty to gather experts and thought leaders for events like this to raise awareness and share best practices,” said Mr. James, after the event, “We will continue our relentless focus on supporting the latest cybersecurity standards and best-practices in our products, in our organization and throughout our community.”

The keynote address from Dr. Selim Aissi, widely recognized as an industry innovator and leader, discussed the latest trends in the cybersecurity threat landscape. His comments in the roundtable included advice for effective cybersecurity preparedness, “A company having a culture of cybersecurity, making cybersecurity first message from the top is very important, awareness is extremely important,” and after discussing other steps an organization can take to improve their cybersecurity, he noted that, “A lot of companies only recognize the importance of these basic hygiene things when they get attacked.”

Dr. Aissi was followed by Paul Krutko, CEO of Ann Arbor SPARK, who commented, “Here in Michigan, we’re at a critical point in the economic future of our state, and Applied Dynamics’ achievements are a great example of the types of pathways we need to continue to develop if we’re going to be successful as a state.”

Also participating in the remarks and discussion, Chris Matus, Regional Director, Office of U.S. Senator Gary Peters, commented on cybersecurity and the Ann Arbor region, “As chair of the homeland security committee … these are threats that Senator Peters is very much aware of and takes very seriously… [and] Ann Arbor as a city or region in the state of Michigan is very well-situated to be at the forefront of addressing these challenges.”

Rich Sheridan, CEO of Ann Arbor-based Menlo Innovations, closed out the formal remarks stating “The work that you’re doing here [at Applied Dynamics] is helping foster a community that allows us to keep our talent here [in Ann Arbor and Michigan] … this is a great place to be.”

About the ADEPT Plug-and-Play Industrial Computing and Connectivity Software Platform

ADEPT is an industrial computing and connectivity software platform built around the concept of time-deterministic “data frameworks” executing on industrial real-time Linux servers and operating as a single, coherent distributed resource controlled and managed via intuitive, drag-and-drop desktop tools.  ADEPT is used in the largest, most demanding industrial computing and connectivity applications across the global aerospace and defense industry, but also scales down to work with low-cost computing hardware and open-source real-time Linux. The open architecture nature of ADEPT allows users to leverage best-in-class COTS and open-source technologies in a common, project-based environment.  ADEPT dramatically reduces the cost and time to deploy and operate industrial open process automation capability, providing comprehensive out-of-the-box capability built on a trusted technology platform.

ADI’s ADEPT software platform can support advanced open real-time and virtual computing applications that require NIST 800-171 and CIS Security Level 2 compliance.

About Applied Dynamics

Applied Dynamics is a digital engineering and industrial digital transformation solutions company. We have been pushing the limits of simulation and real-time systems for over 60 years. Applied Dynamics flagship product, ADEPT, is the most advanced real-time, industrial Internet of Things (IoT) software platform available, providing an agile, open architecture, feature-rich environment for the complete product lifecycle from development through integration, verification, validation, certification, deployment, and sustainment. ADEPT embraces an open architecture and allows its users to leverage best-in-class COTS components. The ADEPT user base includes 14 of the global top 35 A&D companies and extends into marine, power systems, oil & gas, and the automotive industry.

To learn more about how ADI and the ADEPT platform can help your team, visit www.adi.com or send an email to adinfo@adi.com.

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Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
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