Meeting the Global Journals Publishing Challenge: Wolters Kluwer Health

Flatirons Solutions and WKH implemented a comprehensive set of workflow, digital asset management, and reporting capabilities that allowed WKH to meet and exceed its goals for streamlining production processes, providing greater visibility for content stakeholders into journal and article status, and reducing production costs thanks to a decrease in manual labor and fewer costly errors. This system, which was deployed successfully to WKH’s global journals workforce almost three years ago, has since been adapted for use in other leading journal publishing environments.

DITA Case Study: The Joseph Smith Papers Project

Read how XML fit into the complex workflow associated with the scholarly encoding efforts of Brigham Young University to encode the historical papers of Church of Latter Day Saints founder Joseph Smith.

Aerobahn Evaluation: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

Flatirons Solutions was tasked by the FAA’s System Operations to conduct an evaluation of the Aerobahn’s TaxiView, OpsView and QuickView products at JFK and other related facilities. This case study outlines how Flatirons Solutions' independent evaluation of Aerobahn allowed the government to have an unbiased recommendation of the software’s functionality and its' suitability for meeting the goals of the users.

Approach Lighting System with Sequenced Flashing Lights (ALSF): U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

The FAA required an evaluation of the costs and benefits of sustaining ALSF-2 service (used for lighting for ground-based navigation and landing systems) for the next twenty years. In response to this challenge, Flatirons developed a flexible model to evaluate the tradeoffs between cost and benefit of service provided under several alternative scenarios.

Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS): U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

Flatirons Solutions was engaged by the FAA’s LAAS Program Office and Advanced Management Technology Incorporated (AMTI) to develop a detailed life-cycle cost comparison of LAAS and ILS, systems specifically designed to support aircraft operations in the terminal, approach, surface, and departure operational domains. In response, Flatirons provided an estimation model that provideed flexibility in evaluating a broad range of LAAS development and deployment strategies and scenarios.

TFM Measurement & Analysis Report: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

As part of continuous efforts to improve the Traffic Flow Management (TFM) system, the FAA required an unbiased analysis to support its Quantitative Performance Measurement (QPM) program and assess TFM program status and system effectiveness. Flatirons’ report focused on recent trends in TFM performance and related topics of interest, and provided a complete record of all key metrics needed to assess program performance.

Time‐Based Flow Management (TBFM): U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is improving the efficiency of air traffic flow into capacity constrained airspace as part of the agency’s transition to NextGen Air Transportation System (NextGen). Part of the NextGen solution set is transitioning the management of aircraft flow from distance-based (e.g. miles between aircraft) to Time-Based Flow Management (TBFM). Flatirons Solutions provided a comprehensive Portfolio Planning solution to support the FAA in providing an integrated suite of initiatives to expand TBFM.