April 2007:

Crane Aerospace Awards Triakis Contract for Additional Avionics VSIL Simulator

Triakis has signed a contract with Crane Aerospace to develop a Virtual System Integration Laboratory (VSIL) simulator for the support of software development and testing.  This comes after a series of successes with VSIL simulators that have been shown to significantly enhance software quality of on-board computer controlled avionics systems, while reducing development time & expense.

  Boeing 777F Weight & Balance System (WBS)

The AirWeighs Real-Time Weight and Balance System is designed to provide significant improvements in reliability, maintainability and accuracy. In addition, the system can be used to quickly validate manual weight calculations – which are based on external data – with highly accurate, real-time on-board measurement. A primary advantage of AirWeighs is that it does not require periodic calibration.  Crane's news release may be viewed at:

To our knowledge, no software defects have ever been reported by any airframe manufacturer receiving an avionics system whose software was verified in a Triakis VSIL.