Boeing has selected WPDS GOLD software to provide work flow management in support of Boeing ISS contracts.
Space Station sites that will run GOLD include Boeing facilities at the Johnson Space Center in Houston; Kennedy Space Center, Fla.; Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.; and Boeing Huntington Beach, Calif.
GOLD will be used to integrate and manage a number of critical ISS assembly and support functions, including material, work-in-process, configuration management, scheduled maintenance, work packaging and recording, asset management, federal supply system interface, and reporting. A GOLD implementation site survey began at Kennedy Space Center on July 19, 1999.
According to Terry Lubenow, WPDS vice president, "We are thrilled that Boeing chose GOLD to support its central role in making ISS a reality."
Boeing Houston project manager for GOLD, John Leonard, remarked that, "We saw GOLD as the ideal software solution based on its power, flexibility and proven performance in many other programs throughout Boeing."
The first two station modules, the Russian-launched Zarya and U.S.-launched Unity, were assembled in orbit in late 1998. The Boeing Company is NASA's prime contractor to design, develop, manufacture and assemble the International Space Station.
WPDS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bowthorpe plc based in the UK and which focuses on the design, development, manufacture and marketing of specialist electronic products. GOLD is widely used by the United States and foreign military organizations, defense contractors and commercial enterprises.
