MIPS Project Detail:
Company
Company Description:
Northrop Grumman Corporation offers an extraordinary portfolio of capabilities and technologies that enable the company to deliver innovative systems and solutions for applications that range from undersea to outer space and into cyberspace.
The company’s core competencies address emerging global security challenges in key areas, such as unmanned systems, cybersecurity, C4ISR, and logistics that are critical to the defense of the nation and its allies.
MIPS Project
Weight Measurement System
Project #
1002
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MIPS Round
10
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Starting Date:
Aug 1992
MIPS Project Challenge:
Northrop Grumman sought to develop a weight measuring subsystem for the company’s new automated mail and document processing system.
Project Scope:
The company was developing a new mail sorting system that sorts incoming, internal and outgoing mixed mail. The purpose of the project was to develop a working prototype of an on-line weighing module. High-speed weighing was not commercially available at the time. The project studied dynamic effects introduced into the measured signal and the effects of lift forces in measuring light weight pieces such as post cards. The transport and control systems were designed and evaluated.
Results:
Northrop Grumman obtained related contracts worth $100 million.
Principal Investigator:
Uri
Tasch
Project Manager:
J.R. Seewagen
Mr. D.M.Tilies
Mgr.Mfg. Technology
