Good Data Practices for Improving Fault Isolation Procedures in Aviation Maintenance

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Using Good Data Practices for Improving Fault Isolation Procedures in Aviation Maintenance   Building a Better Fault Data Ecosystem Fault Isolation is a paramount process in aviation maintenance and is difficult to accomplish for a few reasons. First, the manual for the fault data ecosystem is typically designed once at the beginning of a program […]

Mission Readiness and Advanced Battle Management Systems

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  Mission Readiness And Battle Management Systems Are Strengthened With AI Technologies    How you Measure Your Impact At Freya Systems, our impact is measured in how we equip clients with predictive models and decision tools to be more effective, highly efficient, and improve safety.  We are most acutely focused on these project goals in […]

Clean Code with SQL Views

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  Clean Code with SQL Views One thing that can be both frustrating and freeing is that there is no single correct way to optimally do things in software. After reading the book Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by software expert Robert C. Martin, I have noticed when code isn’t “clean” it […]

A Guide to the Challenges of Vibrational CBM+ for Legacy Aviation Hardware

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A Guide to the Challenges of Vibrational Condition Based Maintenance for Legacy Aviation Hardware The benefits of Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) algorithms are well known – they improve availability of reliable equipment and help reduce maintenance costs. However, the challenges of implementing these algorithms on legacy hardware can be significant. This article explores some of […]

Challenges of Condition Based Maintenance Algorithms in Aviation

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In order for a flight vehicle to be safe and reliable, regular aircraft structural maintenance needs to be performed to repair worn-out components. Some components have a predictable wear rate and do well with a time-based or usage-based maintenance schedule, but many components are more random in their failure rates and a scheduled removal may […]

How to create Tabsets in R Markdown

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The Goal: Space Saving Displays for Similar Figures in an HTML Report R Markdown is a fantastic tool for R users seeking to combine data visualization and analysis in a single reproducible deliverable. However, there are instances in which the volume of figures required clogs up the report, which acts as a nuisance at best […]

How to create a tabset using Quarto & R

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Learn which technologies combine to make data a critical organizational asset Read our tutorial below on space-efficient displays of multiple figures in HTML reports using Quarto and R. What is Quarto? Quarto is a new open source scientific and technical publishing system created by Posit (formerly RStudio). Quarto is marketed as a next generation version […]

How to Create Dynamic Tabs in R Markdown

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How to Create Dynamic Tabs in R Markdown   Tutorial on programmatically generating tab headings for multiple figures in HTML reports Freya Systems Extension of Previous Tabsets Tutorial A previous tutorial, “How to use tabsets in R Markdown”, introduced tabsets for grouping figures together into an interactive instance. In an R markdown notebook, users can […]

Ada

Ada

The following essay was Published in Drexel University Publishing Group’s annual collection (known as The 33rd”) in 2014 as the first-place winner of the Zelda Provenzano Endowed STEM Writing Award. In honor of the 207th anniversary of Ada Lovelace’s birth (December 10th, 2022) it is reprinted here with permission of the author, with minor edits. […]

Reassessing our Values

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There comes a time in every organization when you need to sit down and evaluate where you are on a cultural level. Are our values still relevant to the Freya team? Have our values kept up with our evolution as a business? We asked these questions throughout last year, prompting a fruitful dialogue into the […]